Mail on Mountain Lion keeps crashing

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Mail on Mountain Lion keeps crashing

Hi all,

Does anyone have an issue with Mail on Mountain Lion crashing? I can't even start it up to show what version of mail it is (luckily though, crash report shows it's 6.0 build 1485).

Process: Mail [350]

Path: /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail

Identifier: com.apple.mail

Version: 6.0 (1485)

Build Info: Mail-1485000000000000~3

Code Type: X86-64 (Native)

Parent Process: launchd [150]

User ID: 501

Date/Time: 2012-08-01 21:07:19.613 +0900

OS Version: Mac OS X 10.8 (12A269)

Report Version: 10

Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)

Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000000

Cheers

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on Aug 1, 2012 5:13 AM

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Answer 1

sean_chan Author

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Aug 6, 2012 11:01 AM in response to sean_chan

So far no one has been able to help me. Seems someone else has this problem :-

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4162377?start=0&tstart=0

Now iPhoto is stuck in an infinite loop in starting up. Tried rebuilding library, rebuilding thumbnails, repairing permissions, etc. nothing works.

Mountain Lion has so far proven to be the least stable MacOS I've used since 10.1.

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hen4ry

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Aug 11, 2012 2:44 PM in response to sean_chan

Same thing here, along with a lot of other problems, all relating to networking. Could not even open this page in Safari, but can in Firefox. App Store can't show me updates or purchased apps, but other tabs work fine. iTunes store is the same way. There's more, too.

And none of these problems appear on another MacBook Pro on the same network, also running 10.8.

What in **** is going on?

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Answer 3

hen4ry

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Aug 11, 2012 3:04 PM in response to hen4ry

Solved one problem: Mail no longer crashes since I uninstalled GPGMail. All the other network-related problems are still around.

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dy1112

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Jan 21, 2013 11:34 PM in response to hen4ry

Miraculously, the post below about Lion works for Mountain Lion as well.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3193483?answerId=17011733022#17011733022

macmrjohn

Re: Mail 5 (OSX Lion) does not work after mailbox migration

Dec 15, 2011 1:43 PM (in response to Alejandro M. Ramallo)

This same thing happened today when migrating a friend's laptop.

THE SOLUTION:

Inside the Library folder (Lion hides this folder now, so hold down the option key and use the Go menu in the finder — Library will appear in the menu. Go there.) you'll find the Mail folder. Inside the mail folder was another folder called V2. I simply took the contents of V2 and dragged them to the parent folder (Mail).

When I launched mail again, everything was back to normal. As Apple says, "It's that simple!"

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criwil

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Feb 7, 2013 12:47 PM in response to sean_chan

I just had the problem and fixed it by disconnecting the ethernet cable so that Mail couldn't get the offending email...then I was able to select another email and all is well.

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