Q: Mail rules being corrupted and dialog unusable
I am having issues with mail rules.
I am using them to organise my mail into folders. Most of the time this is done by checkig the contents of the From email address. The actions associated with these rules are generall to move the emil to the mailbox and then stop processing further. I now have quite a few rules for this and it was all going fine for a while.
I started to add a few more rules. The first thing I noticed was the the list box containing the actions wasnt rendering properly. The first action was visible, but then the second action partly (obscured) by the first action. The more I used the application, the worse this became to the point where you could not see the second or subsequent actions at all. The problem is reproducable. Quiting and restarting mail, or even re-booting, would not cause cause the problem to go away. I have noticed that the overlapping becomes worse as you edit a rule further down the list.
The next thing I noticed was that instead of, say, only having the defined 2 actions for a rule, all of a sudden, and somewhat randomly, three actions started to appear. For exmaple, instead of just "move" and "stop", I would now have "move", then "copy" and then "stop". Any ideas on how the extra "copy" magically appeared?
These two issues are not mutually exclusive. So if you try to edit a rule that now has three actions, you cant, because the second "copy" action is now obscured by the first action.
The whole mail "rules" feature becomes a fundamentally unusable and useless feature.
Is this just a bad set of bugs that I should pray for a quick fix for before my mail turns into a huge mess, or is there something I should be trying to overcome the problem. Clearly I'd rather not delete all my rules and spend another evening re-doing them - I just about had it perfect!
I'd appreciate any help.
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)
Posted on May 29, 2014 5:00 AM
