CAN NOT DELETE EMAILS "NULL" FILE WILL NOT ACCEPT. MAC OS X 10.5.8, DID NOT UP GRADE AND DID NOT CHANGE TO ICLOUD. 2WKS- OK CAN NOT DELETE MAIL MSGS FROM INBOX/R-ANY-WHEREX. JUST WANTED TO CONTINUE EMAIL AS IN THE PAST, WELL MACHINE IS FILLING UP

I'll make you a deal. I'll take the time to think about your question if you give your word of honor that you will never use all-caps anywhere on the internet ever again, not for any reason. That's been an irritant for 20 years now, and there's just no excuse for it.

donsenior22 wrote:

Sorry have trouble seeing.

You seemed to have had no trouble writing the body of your post or reading mine, and at need Macs have easy-to-access assistive features, so this claim is a bit disingenuous. It's also not a promise not to do it again, or even an acknowledgement that I've made a valid complaint.

I'm not going to waste time arguing about this with you. Do the decent thing and acknowledge my point, or else wait for someone who isn't annoyed by this [...] to help you out. Your choice.

If you hold the command key down (the one with the ⌘ on it) and hit the + key you can make the fonts larger. Might help out, I know as I've gotten up there in years I've had to use it more and more 😁

In the mean time while twtwtw mulls this over, can you supply any further information? Did the system crash or didi anything change before you started having the problem? Are you really running 10.5.8 as your profile says?

We'll start with those for now,

regards

Message was edited by: Frank Caggiano BTW ⌘- - (command minus) will make the fonts smaller

A Null message probably means that Mail has indexed a message without realizing that the message was removed - i.e. it thinks there's a message where there actually isn't one, and gets confused trying to delete a non-existent file. So, the first thing I would try is rebuilding the mailboxes. it's been a while since I've seen 10.5, but I believe the Rebuild command was still on the Mailbox menu. Select the INBOX on the side panel, choose Rebuild from the Mailbox menu, see if that fixes things. if not, try the next most drastic thing: quit Mail, go to the Mail folder inside your Library folder, find and delete the file called Envelope Index, then restart Mail. These are different ways of forcing Mail to reindex things from scratch.