lion mail exchange message moving issues

I am getting by by not using Mail at all, and simply using the Mobileme web mail. It's working fine (though the interface is nowhere near as good). Still, completely reliable during this transsition.

FWIW, kl

Did you see the comments about stopping the "Changing Flags" hang in the Activity Window (by hitting the red Stop sign)?

(That is go Window->Activity and look for the hung task and stop it.)

It means you can unfreeze Mail without quitting.

I know it is pants, but it may be that is enough to keep you going until they fix it.

I am now managing to cope by doing that.

Apple do know about all this - I have had confirmation from their bug people.

Hugh, It's the copying of the mail messages that gets wedged. I click the stopped button and that line item greys out and nothing else happens. I still have to kill my Mail instance.

Harsh - sorry mate, nothing more to suggest.

Hi,

I had the same problem. It appeared out of sudden after mail 5.0 was running perfectly under Lion for a week.

Than 3 days ago no incoming emails were received anymore. Everything run perfectly with my iPhone, but not with mail on my MacBook Pro.

When I tried to close down mail, the window disappeared, but mail did not shut down. I had to force it to close over the last few days.

I am using MailTags and MailActOn and yesterday I rebuild both: The library from message files as well as the spotlight index. First nothing changed. No incoming mails.

I tried to close mail and this time something strange happened: First the window dissapeared and mail stayed open (saw it in the dock). Then 2!!! mail windows opened.

After this mail shut down by itsef and when I restarted it the Exchange account was working perfectly again.

Whatever happened - I am not a specialist, but liked to share with you the behaviour here ;-)

Many greetings,

Tanja

+1

Same behavior here -- general very stable OS X Lion experience. Two major glitches:

* mail with exchange exhibits all of the behaviors noted above -- it is so bad I am exploring Outlook for the Mac which I cannot believe I am saying after disliking entourage so much.

* command-tab does not show all the active applications any more -- until I restart, then it does for a while and then slowly over time things drop off the grid.

I will try to post the second one in a more relevant thread, but thought I would mention both here in case somehow they help us share Lion experiences and get Apple's attention.

dito.

Problem with MS exchange server only, and only from Mac OS X.

Maybe it is sabotage from Microsoft?

I have to restart mac mail several times a day.

Pretty much useless.

The main issue I have is that often my emails are stuck in the outbox. I have to IMAP accounts (mobile me included) and it is really annoying. When I send an email from my mobile me account, I always have the server window pop up saying it can't connect to the server. It shows me MobileMe (offline), then my other servers, then at the bottom of the liste mobileme again. I try to edit the list to remove the MobileMe one but it only shows one mobileme server, I am not sure if the issue there is because of the fact that Apple has @mac and @ me in the same server set up.

Same issue here. Productivity down quite a bit since this OS X Lion upgrade. Any of you successfully rolled back to Snow Leopard?

Mail is working fine for me now, after three weeks of using gmail.

If I can make a suggestion: from a productivity point of view, and assuming you have a mobile me account, I recommend setting up a new gmail or hotmail account; logging in to the web mail version of MM via Safari and, once logged in, selecting prererences; and forward everything to the gmail account. As well, I used the "Vacation" message capacity to let all my clients know that Mail was not working properly.

All this meant that I got all mail immediately, and my clients got an email that let them know there was a problem with mail, and that solved everything for me.

Then, still with this set up, I checked daily (sent a test message to myself, and waited to see if it hung in the "sent" window); if it did, I used gmail that day.

Now, it all works, but I have a fallback plan if it messes up again.

Re. rolling back to SN: I am overseas right now, so that's not an option, but Final Cut Pro 7 is working fine with Lion and so is Aperture and Capture One Pro, my main productivity tools, so probably not. It they were not working, I definitely would.

hth

kl

Let us keep on topic here guys.

For people not using this kind of server it is not obvious,

but this thread was started about problems with connection to Microsoft Exchange Server.

Nothing to do with gmail or hotmail.

For most exchange users it is not an option to switch or forward to gmail due to IT policies at their employers.

Sorry; perfectly correct. A mod can delete the above post, if they wish.

Exchange user here.

The problem seems to do with rules on the mail client side:

1. delete all your rules
2. turn off junk mail, as I think it creates the problem, too (by making rules you can't see)

If you need rules, you can get some of them by setting them on the exchange side with Outlook Web Access or an Outlook Windows client.

Basically this is killing me. I'm busy this morning, but a colleague is working via Gmail (he POPs his exchange box over there). Likley I'll spend some time next week getting off mail.app. I may even look at Entourage. Oh, they call Entourage Outlook now don't they.

If I could go back to Snow Leopard, I would, just because of this stinking problem with the 'changing flags' vs. Mail rules bug.

I called Apple about this a couple of weeks ago and was told that he doesnt see anything in the logs on this issue. I told him that there was plenty in the forums but he stated that the forums dont create engineering/support tickets. We need to call in and discuss this or it will not get on the radar for them to fix.

I did try Mozilla Thunder and it worked lightning fast!! it was crazy but it didnt bring over my folders, bummer since they have an addin to synch calendars. This would have fixed me right up.

T