Gmail IMAP "Copying message" feedback loop
Yesterday I sent an email with 10mbs of attachments from mail.app through gmail imap. after the message sent, I noticed that the spinning icon next to the gmail inbox was perpetually spinning. in the 'activity' window, it says:
I figured mail.app and gmail were synchronizing the email. so i let the process go for a few hours yesterday, when I noticed that no new email had come in via gmail, so i checked the account through the web browser. sure enough to find new email, but nothing coming through to mail.app. so i cancelled the process and but the activity status just said "STOPPING: copying message" and didn't go away. So I restarted mail.app. as soon as mail.app was back up and running, the "copying message" status reappeared.
Last night, I let the operation go throughout the night, to wake up this morning with nothing changed. So this morning I checked my "recovered messages (Gmail).mobx" folder to see several 345mb message files. I removed the whole "recovered messages (Gmail).mobx" folder to the desktop and restarted mail.app but I still have the same error.
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Incidentals:
The original message with the 10mbs of attachments was a series of 47 photos. Originally, I had dragged full res photos(6-7mbs/photo) into a mail.app message and chose "medium" from the "image size" pop-up at the bottom pane of the message.
My theory is that in between placing the photos in the message and mail.app resizing them, mail.app and gmail tried to save a draft of the message to the server with all the photos at their original size (they might have been somewhere around that 345mb mark). And somehow mail.app is freaking out continually trying to upload a draft of the message with 345mbs of attachments. just a theory.
how do i get mail.app and gmail imap out this weird feedback loop?
Message was edited by: Ed Fladung
Gmail Synchronizing with server
copying message
I figured mail.app and gmail were synchronizing the email. so i let the process go for a few hours yesterday, when I noticed that no new email had come in via gmail, so i checked the account through the web browser. sure enough to find new email, but nothing coming through to mail.app. so i cancelled the process and but the activity status just said "STOPPING: copying message" and didn't go away. So I restarted mail.app. as soon as mail.app was back up and running, the "copying message" status reappeared.
Last night, I let the operation go throughout the night, to wake up this morning with nothing changed. So this morning I checked my "recovered messages (Gmail).mobx" folder to see several 345mb message files. I removed the whole "recovered messages (Gmail).mobx" folder to the desktop and restarted mail.app but I still have the same error.
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Incidentals:
The original message with the 10mbs of attachments was a series of 47 photos. Originally, I had dragged full res photos(6-7mbs/photo) into a mail.app message and chose "medium" from the "image size" pop-up at the bottom pane of the message.
My theory is that in between placing the photos in the message and mail.app resizing them, mail.app and gmail tried to save a draft of the message to the server with all the photos at their original size (they might have been somewhere around that 345mb mark). And somehow mail.app is freaking out continually trying to upload a draft of the message with 345mbs of attachments. just a theory.
how do i get mail.app and gmail imap out this weird feedback loop?
Message was edited by: Ed Fladung
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