mail.app message has wrong attachment

I upgraded to Mountain Lion last week and everything as been running quite nicely. Today I needed to find an old email and look at the contents of the associated attachment. The email was from 11-04-26 and the text was as expected, however when I opened the attachment it was not related to the message at all.

For push notification support I have all my emails forwarded to my iCloud address. So in effect I have the original IMAP database and the icloud IMAP database from which to pull the message. I tried both copied via mail.app, and both showed me the same incorrect attachment. I then logged onto my local mail server via webmail and pulled the message. On the web the correct attachment was presented. I went to icloud and pulled the message, again the correct attachment was presented.

I went back to mail.app and performed a rebuild on my iCloud account. It has 22,000 messages so it took a while but it was rebuilt. I then searched for the message in question again and pulled the attachment - it is still the wrong attachment.

Any ideas or recommendations?

Mac Pro, OS X Mountain Lion, mail.app

Posted on Aug 3, 2012 6:26 AM

17 replies

jr61

Level 1

8 points

Mar 19, 2016 2:53 AM in response to Office_lurker

Received an email with 2 pdf attachments. Viewed them on iPhone, fine. In mac mail both labelled the same (the second one's label) and only this opens. I re-emailed the first one to myself from the iPhone (once opened) separately to be able to open it on the mac. Saving attachments from the first email to the mac generates the correct 2 files in documents. Previewing initially showed the first file but repeating it only shows the second one ie mimics the attempt to open.

This is a weird bug and I would have missed that fact I had been sent 2 files had I not looked at my email first on the iPhone. What else might I have missed?

Dec 2, 2016 1:47 PM in response to jr61

Has this been solved in Mac OS Sierra? I have to use web gmail because of this.

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