Missing emails in Mail - Lion deleting them?

How many account folders are to be seen in the Mail folder?

I have not experimented with iClound versions, but Mobile Me accounts are IMAP, and if forcing a reindexing via the removal of the Envelope Index file would need to be removed. Such would be the case for iClound, if an account has been created.

I was using a modified version of what is cited here:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mail/4.0/en/14019.html

You could also simply remove the Gmail account in the Preferences, and later after quitting and relaunching Mail, add it back. But more about any other accounts, first.

Improper indexing is the primary reason that message known to be a mailbox do not display, btw.

Ernie

In Mail, only two accounts are showing: Eircom and Gmail.

I'll try removing the Gmail account and adding it back in.

Edit: that was strange. I removed the Gmail account in the Mail prefs, and then quit and reopened Mail. Gmail is gone, but has left two little children behind: folders called Drafts (Gmail) and Sent Messages (Gmail).

Deleted those two mailboxes, quit, emptied Mail trash, removed another version of the yokey from the Library/Mail folder, restarted Mail, rebuilt mailboxes, invoked St Brigid, patron of poets (her feast day's eve today, after all), and Mercury, tutelary god of postal staff, and counted the mails in Workshop: 12, including two I'd just sent as test mails.

In the Mail folder, open the IMAP account folder and look for the Workshop.imapmbox folder -- is there one? If so, then within that open the folder named Messages and report how many xxxxx.emlx files are there?

Now in the Mail folder open the Mailboxes folder -- is there any xxxxx.mbox folder there that is named Workshop? If so, check its Messages folder content.

Ernie

Doing this in the morning...

Suddenly, I'm now receiving all incoming e-mail for an IMAP account in my mac.com (iCloud) account. I checked the setting and everything appears to be OK.

How did this sudden ghost in the machine appear and any ideas how to correct it? (No doubt, something to do with the awful Lion) I'm guessing I should delete the existing IMAP and then reset it. But, will I lose the e-mails that have been saved in the account?

Well, I don`t know if some OFF hard worked occured, or if it was linked to some other huge issue - the wifi conection, but there was a long time since I hade this problem with Mail. Maybe, maybe the new airport update corrected it too..

I wonder if this is to do with the fact that I'm using an Air, with two Airport Extremes making a network. Hmm.

I sure was hoping 10.7.3 was going to fix this problem. Has anyone got this positively solved, and if so, could you post again the solution?

Me too!

Yes I have to hosted exchange accounts and im having the same issue. sometime mail will empty out my inbox and then sometimes all the emails will reappear. And this usually only happens on one account at a time. meaning one email account will show all emails and the other will be empty, then it will happen to both and then back again. I've been using outlook which works fine for me, but I wanted to limit my third party apps and just use mail, but I cant until they fix this bug.

Not missing, just hidden? When I view all of my "mailboxes" sometimes there are items not listed that can be seen when I click on a particular mailbox. This is without any selection criteria entered.

I sure hope Apple realizes how critical an issue this is for all of us??? I fully expected 10.7.3 to fix this...

The issue of being unable to search for mail, or view mail that is actually on my computer is a royal pain!!!

I am a business user in a higher management position. Several critical mails completely dissapeared before and it happened to me again in 10.7.3. It is so embarrassing that I am running around asking people to send me messages again with silly excuses, (inadvertent deletion, machine crashed etc) as no one would believe me if I say that it is Apple delivering such flawed software. (and avoid the sniggering "take a winPC, Apple was so gooood wasnt it?")

I have transferred the POP and IMAP accounts to Thunderbird, but I still have two important exchange accounts which are not supported by TB.

Does anyone have a good suggestion on how to move away from Mac mail. I had Entourage before but that was a small disaster as well. Any experiences out there with Outlook 2011?

Thanks

Rob Rietveld wrote:

I am a business user in a higher management position. Several critical mails completely dissapeared before and it happened to me again in 10.7.3. It is so embarrassing that I am running around asking people to send me messages again with silly excuses, (inadvertent deletion, machine crashed etc) as no one would believe me if I say that it is Apple delivering such flawed software. (and avoid the sniggering "take a winPC, Apple was so gooood wasnt it?")

I have transferred the POP and IMAP accounts to Thunderbird, but I still have two important exchange accounts which are not supported by TB.

Does anyone have a good suggestion on how to move away from Mac mail. I had Entourage before but that was a small disaster as well. Any experiences out there with Outlook 2011?

Thanks

It depends ... Outlook 2011 is an excellent Exchange client while managing to be an awful neary everything else client (but it is good at POP) use it with your Exchange Server and use TB for everything else.

Mac Mail will handle Exchange accounts fairly well (some limitations especially with delegates) and is a superb Imap client.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

Thanks for the suggestion, I agree with the coset issue and will buy the Office Pro 2011 version.

I hope it is not going to prove to be an excersice of driving out the devil with Beelzebub.

TKS