mail error after leopard update

DIDO!! Yes I have the exact same problem. Same errors, same pop-up and all.

 

I was having the exact same problem after I created a note for the first time and then tried to copy it from 'On My Mac' to the notes folder on my IMAP account. The problem is that the 'Notes' folder on my IMAP account didn't exist, and Mail was trying to copy the note into it before it had created the folder. Perhaps something similar is happening for you guys? I fixed it by opening up my mail in another client (like Thunderbird) and creating the folder it was complaining about manually.

Sakuzaku

 

I too am having the APPEND error when trying to move messages from my local folders to my Gmail IMAP online folders. It's pretty frustrating, as I need to post a few thousand messages to my 25GB storages space there.

 

my email is broken with upgrade to leopard

Hey gang,

I did a leopard upgrade tonight and BAM! no email. I'm using a linux
imap server (courier imap, postfix, maildrop).

Anybody know exactly which mailbox names need to be created to
make this thing work?

And where?

Thanks, Steve Jobs, for making a linux guy feel at home! This is what
an upgrade is supposed to be like......troubleshooting nirvana!

golfnut...

 

Same issue as Post Author

I have the excat same issue as mac-vaerk because of deleting message while not online. What gets me is that this is the first Mac OS that I have had so many problems with and there seems to be nothing on the Mac site for fixing any of them. I also had the "Wheel of Death" in my Finder and had to Terminal in and rename a Application Support item.

This is my fifth day without using my mail on my computer! Anyone figure this out?

 

Fix

Try this fix. It helped me with the same problem.

http://www.siriusmug.com/index.php/2007/10/29/apple-mail-30-leopard-imap-issue-fix-that-works/

 

Ok yeah this pretty much fixes the problem of just opening Mail and it actually working but now I don't have all my old mail and old sent Mail etc. In other words (this is for dummies like me) this creates an entirely new Mail folder in your library so for me I now can't see any of my old sent mail for several of my accounts ... so yes it fixes the problem, but no it kinda doesn't. Great suggestion that will work great for some.

 

More precise way

This will blow away all your Drafts, and allow you to use Mail again (it worked for me):

1) Quit Mail
2) Open a terminal window
3) cd ~/Library/Mail/[your imap account dir]/Drafts.imapmbox; rm *
4) Restart Mail

 

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/7890/picture1az3.png

this is a screenshot of the mail folder. which one do you want me to delete?

 

I just deleted the folder .OfflineCache in the directory ~/Library/Mail/[my imap account dir] and it seems it solved the problem. ([my imap account dir] is something like "IMAP-username@gmail.com@imap.gmail.com" on my computer)
This directory contained 8 copies of the message causing the problem.

What I did:

- Quit Mail
- Open Terminal
- Go to the imap directory (type the following line into the terminal):
cd ~/Library/Mail/[my imap account dir]
- Delete the offline cache:
rm -r .OfflineCache