Why is my AppleMail sending blank or partial emails?

Is it ever blank or partial when you eMail yourself?

I'm experiencing "issues" with my mail as well, but in the opposite direction. Last night, after a restart Mail reported it needed to go through a rebuilding process. Since doing the rebuild, Mail seems to be displaying one corrupt mail message--a 2 year old e-mail keeps showing up at the top message in my mailbox. The inconsequential message just gives me the header information (to from, date, subject) but no content. I know from the header that there once was content to this message. I've deleted it numerous times, but each time I open the program or another folder inside the program, that message keeps showing up.

Could be many things, we should start with this...

"Try Disk Utility

1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc, then restart the computer while holding the C key.

2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu at top of the screen. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)

*Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*

3. Click the First Aid tab.

4. Select your Mac OS X volume.

5. Click Repair Disk, (not Repair Permissions). Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214

Then try a Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.

(Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.)

If perchance you can't find your install Disc, at least try it from the Safe Boot part onward.

If 10.7.0 or later...

Bootup holding CMD+r, or the Option/alt key to boot from the Restore partitirion & use Disk Utility from there to Repair the Disk, then Repair Permissions.

Hmmmm,

In Mail> Preferences>Composing, what are the settings there for Responding?

And are you Sending as Windows friendly attachments?

creativestuff wrote:

I'm experiencing "issues" with my mail as well, but in the opposite direction. Last night, after a restart Mail reported it needed to go through a rebuilding process. Since doing the rebuild, Mail seems to be displaying one corrupt mail message--a 2 year old e-mail keeps showing up at the top message in my mailbox. The inconsequential message just gives me the header information (to from, date, subject) but no content. I know from the header that there once was content to this message. I've deleted it numerous times, but each time I open the program or another folder inside the program, that message keeps showing up.

It is not very polite to post a different problem in another person's thread.

Start by 'Erase Deleted Messages/In All Accounts' on Mailbox menu.

Do you have virus software?

RebeccaCEB wrote:

It is attaching the older portions of the email I am FWD or RE as ATT00427.txt (1 KB) files (or one that has a similar name) at the top. Do you know how to change this Applemail behavior?

I have a difficulty trying to help you. You have posted to the Leopard forum but you appear to be using a later OS which I do not have.

My Mail 3.6 does not appear to have an option to attach historic emails. This is something more common in Windows. Could it be that you received an email from Windows (or some other email client) with an attachment which Mail displayed inline? If so this may do as you described when forwarded.

This thread is also being discussed here:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4216431?answerId=20175939022#20175939022

Thanks Richard - I see Rebecca originally posted to both on the same day - not the best thing to do.

RebeccaCEB:

Your saying the people you sent to were both on Gmail?

What about the account you SENT from? I mean, was it Gmail? I just need to know the part after the "@" symbol - don't post the whole thing on a public web page.