Since upgrading to Lion, Mail on my iMac frequently will not quit. The Quit item in File Menu is greyed rather than active black. It never seems to recover, and only Force Quit works, and that not all the time! There is no activity shown in the Activity Window.
iMac intel, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
Having the same problem now. It wasn't a problem after I originally upgraded to Lion, but it has become an issue over the past week or so. I didn't notice it until I wanted to shut down, and would then be alerted that Mail was stopping the Shut Down process.
One note, before I Force Quit (since that's my only option), when I do click on the Message Viewer, all messages appear with message numbers in a sort of list default - which is not how my Mail prefs are set up.
I have tried all the above and still no success.
I have a 2011 MBA. Even if I try to re-open mail after I've tried quitting it, it will not re-open. Have tried turning off wifi, checking Activity but no processes are in there, tried taking accounts offline via Mailbox... All to no avail.
I guess Force Quit it is.
This has also been happening to me since the Lion upgrade. I am puzzled as to why Apple does not address it. We are also on MS Exchange server, wondering if that has any bearing on the issues.....
My problem was a stuck account. The window for it trying to log in was not appearing until I closed the main view window, then it would appear and I could cancel. After that, I was able to quit.
-Scott
I am still having the problem and the issue seems to be widespread if you count the number of google threads on it. I am surprised there isn't an Apple comment on here yet. I bought the mac because they do things like this.
I had this problem too on my new MBP and could not work it out. I noticed it had automatically added a mobileme account (which I do not have) above my gmail account which had the offline symbol next to it. I turned my wi-fi off, opened Mail prefs (something I could not do without it freezing with the wi-fi on) and deleted the account. It now seems to be working fine.
All I can work out is it must have been trying to connect to the mystery account before closing.
Its working ok so far and closing normally.
Not sure if this can help anyone's situation.
Thanks
Liz
I have had this problem of mail not quitting since lion upgrade last year. 2007 macbook. I think it is something to do with yahoo imap. pop mail was simpler. My yahoo account also takes forever to send mail quite often. Basically yahoo imap and mail app in general do not work very well.
@ Simon Coxall: so true, same experience over here (since 10.7 and even with 10.8.2)
Having the same problem since I went with Lion upgrade. Mail very slow to go out and sometimes won't go out at all then the messages automaticaly goes to drafts where it can't be deleted no matter what I do. Sure wished Apple would fix this problem with their mail. Very frustrated when used to having the best system in the world hang up like that.....Come on Apple, been with you for years and love the product but geeeezzz allready!
Heres what I get when I try and delete mail that wont delete and places itself in drafts:
The message “Fireplace Hearth before and after demolition.” could not be moved to the mailbox “Trash — On My Mac” An error occurred while moving messages to mailbox “Trash — On My Mac”.
Any ideas on how to get this fixed??
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Heres what I get when I try and delete mail that wont delete and places itself in drafts:
The message “Fireplace Hearth before and after demolition.” could not be moved to the mailbox “Trash — On My Mac” An error occurred while moving messages to mailbox “Trash — On My Mac”.
Any ideas on how to get this fixed??>
I have this exact same problem too and I have two stuck in the drafts now. And the only way to quit MAIL is to force quit it. Has anyone figured out to fix this?
Mail won't quit
