Mail stuck in "copying messages" - solved

Many thanks. Works for me. Sorted

Well. It worked! Hallelujah!

Today I had been reading differing views around the web about whether deleting an imap account on a mac would or would not result in the messages downloading to the mac inbox again I was, as you know, reluctant to chance deleting the account with 20k emails in its inbox.

So I thought I would export the relevant inbox to my desktop, and import it back to Mail as a backup. But that resulted in an INBOX.partial mailbox in On My Mac which only contained the most recent 4k of the 20k emails.

Having then read numerous (and often opposing) thoughts about why this had happened, and what to do about it, I thought sod it. There's only so much a man can take. And I do have a Time Machine backup (though no doubt that would have brought its own issues).

So I deleted the imap account as you outlined, closed mail, rebooted the mac, restarted Mail and took a deep breath.

And it worked. All the 20k emails came pouring back into the new inbox.

And the Copying Messages message has gone!

Hallelujah. Well done Antonio. What a man!

Great!

Thanks for sharing, glad all worked out.

Cheers,

Antonio

Brian,

Thanks for the above advise! Worked perfectly for me.

Cheers,