All the messages show up on my iPhone and iPad, but not in Mail. If I rebuild the mailbox, they will show up, but I have to do that several times a week. Very annoying. Any Ideas?
Help Please! I had to resort to Outlook!
Please follow these directions to delete the Mail "sandbox" folder.
Back up all data.
Triple-click the line below to select it:
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
Services ▹ Reveal
from the contextual menu.* A Finder window should open with a folder named "com.apple.mail" selected. If it does, move the selected folder — not just its contents — to the Desktop. Leave the Finder window open for now.
Quit and relaunch Mail, and test. If the problem is resolved, you may have to recreate some of your Mail settings. You can then delete the folder you moved and close the Finder window. If you still have the problem, quit Mail again and put the folder back where it was, overwriting the one that may have been created in its place. Post your results.
Caution: If you change any of the contents of the sandbox, but leave the folder itself in place, Mail may crash or not launch at all. Deleting the whole sandbox will cause it to be rebuilt automatically.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C). In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar, paste into the box that opens (command-V). You won't see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.
Linc, thank you for the response. Before I try that, I looked at my system log and there are MANY entries similar to:
2013-04-30 10:05:46 -0500 Mail[286]: Error while parsing IMAP response * --Not Set-- : Incomplete response
Remaining text: < </table></td>>
While the remaining text part is different, they all begin with the -0500 Mail[286]: Error while parsing IMAP response * --Not Set-- : Incomplete response
I would have thought it was the IMAP server, however my other devices (and mail programs) handle it just fine.
Does this information change your response?
Thanks again!
-- Does this information change your response?
No. Please try the above suggestion. It may not work, but it's worth a try.
Done. So far so good. I'll follow up in a couple of days.
Thanks again.
I already have an email this morning that did not show up in Mail, but did on my iPhone.
Very frustrating.
What kind of account is this -- IMAP, POP, Exchange?
IMAP, hosted at 1and1.com
I Use mail for my iCloud account, GMail, one exchange and two IMAP. Both IMAPs use the same hosting company, but are different addresses.
The second IMAP seems to be working fine and both are set up identically.
Quit Mail. Force quit if necessary.
Back up all data. That means you know you can restore the Mail database, no matter what happens.
Triple-click the text on the line below to select it:
~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/Envelope Index
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C). In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder
from the menu bar. Paste into the box that opens (command-V), then press return.
A Finder window will open with a file selected. Move the selected file to the Desktop, leaving the window open. Other files in the folder may have names that begin with "Envelope Index". Move those files, if any, to the Trash. Relaunch Mail. It should prompt you to re-import your messages. You may get a warning that the index is corrupt and that Mail has to quit. Click OK.
Test. If Mail now works as expected, you can delete the file you moved to the Desktop. If you get a warning that the file is in use when you try to empty the Trash, log out and log back in.
Thank you.
I get a folder can not be found error. I tried to locate it manually through Spotlight and Finder, but can't locate a Mail folder to start from.
Try with this line:
~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData
Same, "The Folder Can't Be Found"
...it worked for me , thanks (OSX 10.9.3, Mail 7.3 (1878.2) ) !
It happened that flooding was due to just one of the configured accounts,
to find it , Right-Click->"Disconnect" (on the InBox icon, top left..) , one-by-one until the flooding stops .
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Mail is not syncing an imap account correctly.
