Email messages disappear from Mail.

editionperiodicals wrote:

I too use Mail and SpamSieve – on Mavericks. Today I had the unnerving experience of seeing an email which I knew had two large PDFs attached, from a profesional address that has sent me dozens of similar emails, drop into my inbox and then disappear within a couple of seconds. It is nowhere to be found, neither the SpamSieve spam box nor the regular mail spam folder, not via a very thorough global search of the engtire computer and linked strorage. When I asked for the mail to be sent again, to a differne t email address coming into the same Mail installation, exactly the same thing happened. Thank heaven for WeTransfer.

I doubt very much that this is an "Apple problem" as it involves British Telecom; SpamSieve; Apple and dozens of other programs/factors etc. But it does happen; and I have seen it happen.

I don't represent SpamSieve, but I'm 99% sure that SpamSieve is not even capable of deleting messages. All SpamSieve can do is move messages from one location to another. So, if a message has literally disappeared, it's almost certainly not the fault of SpamSieve. :-)

Be sure to try Mail.app's search box (making sure it's searching "All" mailboxes), and also try a Spotlight search, for good measure.

Also, Apple has acknowledged issues with Mail.app in Mavericks (which may or may not be related to your issue, but is worth noting):

http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/02/03/apple-addresses-os-x-mail-problems-off ers-stopgap-workaround

Its not just him. Ive been having this same problem, my mail is disapearing right before my eyes.

Two things can try.

Try rebuilding the mailbox. This can take awhile if you have a lot of mail.

Rebuild mailbox

Try re-indexing the mailbox. This can take awhile if you have a lot of mail.

Reindex messages

Woke up this am and have the same. Emails dissapering seconds after they arrive and nowhere to be found. Anyone find a answer to this?

Thanks.

After upgrading to the latest version of mavericks I haven't had anymore email problems

OK. Finally an answer that worked. For me anyway. So I have a mac and a pc. I have been getting the same emails for 10 years. Same account. Now my pc started a problem where I couldent send out emails. A friend came over and changed the pc from a IMAP to a POP and again I can send emails. But my mac mail is still a IMAP.

You see my mac was setup as a IMAP email. The IMAP is set to sync up with the email server (webmail) and my pc was set up as a POP email. What the POP email was doing was pulling the emails off the webmail and not leaving a copy on the server. So when the IMAP went to sync up to the webmail, there was no longer mail there. So that is why I was seeing my emails for a few seconds but then the POP mail would pull the mail off the server (webmail) essentially taking the email off of the IMAP as well.

So My problem was that both my pc and mac have to both be set to IMAP.

So, if you have more than one mac or pc, check that they are still set to a IMAP account.

I hope this is your problem and you get a fix as soon as I did.

Good Luck.

Johnny

Thank you Thank you Thank you. Just had 10+ years of emails disappear thanks to my web hosting tech support team and the rebuild trick got them back.

You are welcome.

It happens to me all the time! As soon as some messages arrive they are zapped and no trace is left.

Lucky, my mail accounts are linked to Outlook 2011 on my MacPro desktop. There is no problem there.