Mail not showing new messages in inbox

Your problem, hardware or software, may not be exactly the same as that of the original poster of this older thread, and it can be very confusing for everybody if we try to answer more than one question in each thread, which can also result in you applying the wrong advice to your particular problem.

In order for us to give your problem our proper attention to try to solve it, would you kindly start your own thread, describing the trouble you are having in the fullest detail, including completing your details to show what Mac or iDevice you are using, what operating system, and what version of the application in question. Please remember to post in the forum relevant to your hardware or version of OS X. A full list of all the support forums is here:

http://discussions.apple.com/index.jspa

summer14, In case you haven't resolved this yet.

polzbert's solustion is excellent, assuming you have a backup drive using Time Machine. However, did you try rebuilding the inbox? If not, here's how:

Select the mail box that's giving you trouble in the left pane of Apple Mail. Then choose "rebuild" iunder the Mailbox Menu Item. This has resolved countless mailbox glitches for me in the past.

Hi,

My resolution was nothing whatever to do with Apple or my iMac but simply that my server inbox was full and the warning the server had sent 200 emails ago ended up in my junk mailbox.

So, if your email stops suddenly you might want to check this isn't the issue first!

MW

Thank you! It worked. Now if someone could help me figure out why my mail stopped working in the first place. I have spent many hours over the last two weeks trying to get my email back! I keep getting error messages that indicate the problems with the SSL, my username and password, ad nauseum. I have used the mail preferences, connection doctor, anything that can be done. I suspect that the problem exists between yahoo and Mac. Thoughts?

Hi! I'm having a similar situation as most on this list. Happened out of nowhere yesterday. I'm not receiving new messages (from Yahoo) on my Apple Mail eventhough the status bar shows that it's downloading the incoming messages -- and yet no new messages appear. I too have the major concern of wiping out the emails that are in my inbox since all are not saved on the Yahoo server -- when I looked up the Rebuild Mailbox help article it said that rebuilding the mailbox would clear out the messages and redownload them from the mail server. On my mail inbox I have messages from 2011 whereas on the server I only have messages from Nov 2012, and need to keep those emails from 2011. Is there a solution that would help me avoid clearing out my inbox? Although I'm pretty tech-savvy, clearly spelled out steps are hugely helpful! Thanks!

It WON'T delete all your emails. It will delete from the server the one that you selected. You need to delete the email From: Sender Unknown.

The email does not show on the webmail. But it does on the account info.

Apple this is just plain BS. Your Mail app doesn't show all emails. Your app has a bug. This thread has been going for over 3 years. You've released many updates and a major new OS X update in Mavericks. The problem persists and it's not acceptable. We rely on email for business. One missed email, or one responsed to too late can have a huge impact on peoples lives. I don't think it's too much to ask that we get to see all our emails. We must assume you do not wish to fix this. This happened to me twice yesterday and enough is enough.

For anyone still unsure if this is a bug or not a bug, see my screen caps of my webmail and Mac Mail views. The red items are missing in Mac Mail. Perhaps if I tickle Mail just so, or slap it round the chops whislt giving it a kiss, the missing emails might show themsleves. But I have no time for such pandering.

https://plus.google.com/photos/104652710408188140649/albums/5997840229486789057

So where to from here? I'll be looking in earnest for another email app solution asap.

Your problem, hardware or software, may not be exactly the same as that of the original poster of this older thread, and it can be very confusing for everybody if we try to answer more than one question in each thread, which can also result in you applying the wrong advice to your particular problem.

In order for us to give your problem our proper attention to try to solve it, would you kindly start your own thread, describing the trouble you are having in the fullest detail, including completing your details to show what Mac or iDevice you are using, what operating system, and what version of the application in question. Please remember to post in the forum relevant to your hardware or version of OS X. A full list of all the support forums is here:

http://discussions.apple.com/index.jspa

Dear a12c4,

There have been many glitches since the move to iCoud. I'm not a fan either. I was much happier with Mobile Me and I'm deeply distressed at the loss of iDisk and some other great features.

Recently my Iphone refused to retrieve my email and I had to do some major tweaking to both my MacBook (running Lion) and my Original iPhone still running IOS 3.1.3 which is no longer supported.

Things to check:

1. The new incoming mail server for iCloud has changed (at least in my case). It is: p03.imap.mail.com
2. The SMTP server appears to be the same: smtp.me.com
3. New Apple ID email addresses must now include "me.com." If you're still using an old "mac.com" address in some of your settimgs, that can cause some issues as well.
4. Also, Apple requires a new password format with 8 characters, one cap, numbers and all that crap. So - if you have changed you Apple ID on the main iCloud server/account, be sure that you change it in Apple Mail and all other apps requiring your Apple ID password, ie. iPhoto, iTunes, the App Store, etc.
5. Another note - you MUST upgrade to Lion, or the newest IOS on iPhone/iPad before June 30th if you want to keep any "me.com/mac.com" email addresses.

*****, doesn't it?

Wow, thank you Charles! Your rebuild has fixed my problem which was a little different from the above. I too was having the issue on my laptop where I had notice that there were new messages but none appeared in the inbox.