Really strange OS X mail behaviour

[peterdevries]

Emails that show up in my mail app in OS X are showing strange behaviour.

If I click on a new (or old email) then the email that is shown in the preview pane or is opened is an entirely different one than the one I clicked on. I have rebooted etc. No changes previously to the system that could have caused this, so I'm at a loss what the cause is of this..

Can anyone help?

 

[frenetic]

That's an odd problem - the most logic thing to try would be to clear out your caches with Onyx or any other utility. BUt never heard of this problem, though.

 

[Mal]

Try rebuilding that mail folder (all of them individually, if it happens in any folder).

From the menu bar: Mailbox -> Rebuild. That will reindex all of the individual messages, which should clear up that issue.

If not, no clue…

jW

 

[Gregg2]

minor point:

Mail is an Application. Mine is version 3.6 - I don't use it.

OSX is the operating system. Currently, that's version 10.6.x

They are two separate things. Mail is not part of OSX, but comes with it.

 

[peterdevries]

Thanks all for your help. The above mentioned solutions did not work however. A few minutes after I posted this my MBP crashed completely and all things like repairing permissions, safe booting etc. failed. I ended up doing a clean install and using migration assistant to restore the system.

It now works fine of course..