Mail crashing after installing macOS Ventura (clean install)

@etresoft,

Too LATE (LOL) - before your reccomendation I had just unsubscribed to that email - I was getting several emails a day (it was expected) and I was going to unsubscribe anyway. My suspicion of that mail was the number one however, I ignored it for a while because a few times that email had not been pulled down to my mail.app and the mail app would crash, but later I learned it was being pulled down. So, I decided to eliminate it rather it was the problem or not.

Since it was a Weather related email (also recall notices) I never kept any after reading I would just delete the message. So, there are no copies available and I no longer get the emails since I unsubscribe. I can say (without jinxing myself LOL) that I have not had any crashes in mail.app since yesterday when I unsubscribe. I will say this it took me going to iCloud.com on the web in order to unsubscribe because anytime I clicked on the email to either delete or read it mail.app would crash. Luckily, iCloud was able to remove it from the mail.app once I deleted it. from the website.

I want to wait until at least tomorrow before I consider this fully resolved and close my ticket with Apple. I have a feeling if I jump the gun it will shot me in the back. So, for now I want to say I am 98% certain this may have been resolved. Thank you a million times over for yours and everyone else's assistance.

This is day 2 since I deleted and unsubscribed to an email that I would get several times a day. The purpose of the emails were National Weather Services which would provide daily forecasts, and weekly forecasts along with recall notices and other important information. - Apparently something within these emails began causing an issue within the mail.app. What exactly that was/is undetermined at this time. But, apparently it had to do with this email subscription I belong to as another user on this thread also had the samme email subscription and was experiencing the same issue. - So, for now things appear to be working rather they are resolved or not will be up to Apple. I provided more than enough information directly to them before and after posting on this forum and they have pretty much began ignoring me regarding the issue.

One interesting note, Apple Support at no time attempting to ask if or mentioned if it a specific email may have been involved. I myself only suspected just before etresoft brought the possibility up and upon deleting that email and unsubscribing to the email subscription I have found a "work-around." to me while I wanted to help Apple figure this out so that it may be of help to them and other users that may have or will experience it. The work-around is a fix that is saving me the grief of dealing with my mail.app crashing. Maybe Apple will find the issue and create a fix.

For me it was an email from the National Weather service provided by the National recall Service emails. The only reason I was able to determine that this was the one email is that most often it would be the only email from them in my inbox or after going through each email in the inbox as a process of elimination since I would have to read or glance at the email anyway this wasn't all that hard to do.

If the email was the only one in the inbox at the time and it crashed it became suspect. If it was among other emails I would attempt to read or glance at the others and when I would click on that one email the mail.app would crash. Sometimes just launching the mail.app it would crash before any email appearing.

After suspecting this one email message being the possible culperite, I took my mail.app offline. Logged into icloud.com removed the email from the inbox (it would not crash online) then hopped over to where I subscribed to the email and removed my subscription. Once, I did this the mail.app stopped crashing on me. While this did not resolve the issue. It did stop it from crashing. This is where I decided to stop my investigation. after sending Apple and several members of this conversation copies of my crash logs etc. I felt my time was done as no one were able to resolve the problem.

I can live without that email subscription, it was getting to be annoying anyway although, I nice feature to have with weather and recalls it was amazing how I would get 20 emails a day. Sometimes for something too minor.

I don't know if Apple address this issue in any of the recent updates or not, I know they never bothered to contact me regarding it after I sent the crash logs and none of their support steps resolved the issue and let me tell you after erasing my storage (HDD/SSD) several times, to please the support agent I decided they were wasting my time. I found the best help was from our support community here, which I am grateful for.

While this might be a solution, I have serious doubts, WHY? because if it was a hardware issue then another email app that I downloaded does not crash it appears to be a software issue with mail.app. I will have to disagree with you regarding the scores of others, there doesn't have to be scores of other users that may experiencing this issue. There are plenty of other users whom have also reported this being a problem with their mail.app and macOS Ventura. 13.2, 13.1 and even 13.0. While this does not appear to happen in macOS Monterey. nor does it happen with the Spark email client. but, I do thank you for your suggestion, if I can get to an Apple Store to have them look at it I will but most likely if it was a hardware issue, I am sure the hardware diagnostics I have done along with other techs that have looked it would have at least seen something within the hardware and it would not just be a single app that is crashing. This is why I suspected mail.app and having over 700 Mbs of data in the archive and or inbox thinking maybe it was the reason for the crash. I am now beginning to think it might be related to one specific email that I get several times a day from the national weather service it seems any time I attempt to delete those emails the mail.app crashes but does not in spark. We will see. thanks again.