Mail Upgrade message in Mavericks won't go away

This helped for me!

I managed to stop the message more simply, by:

1. Open Mail

2. In Prefs>Accounts>Account information uncheck the "Enable this account" on all accounts

3. Quit Mail

4. Reopen Mail (no message appears)

5. Re-enable account in Prefs>Accounts>Account Information

6. Quit Mail

7. Re-open mail

Everything works ok and no message appears.

Hope it works for you too.

thanks scarpialuik,

Bas

It worked for me also by disabling all accounts but it needed a restart!

Time heals all wounds, apparently, at least it seems to heal this wound. I tried almost every poultice and potion offered in this thread to no avail. Each time a new post would appear, I would try it again. I got numb to the issue and whether my efforts worked, but sun of a gun, it seems to have finally stopped nagging me. Who knows which attempt made any difference, or was there just some thing that was taking a long time? I did some mailbox cleanup along the way so who knows. I guess I'll just recommend those who keep getting nagged to be patient.

Didn't work for me 😟

I thought it was only supposed to wait a fraction of a second to update things, not several minutes.

1. Open Mail

2. In Prefs>Accounts>Account information uncheck the "Enable this account" on all accounts

3. Quit Mail

4. Reopen Mail (no message appears)

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The message does reappear at step 4. So, not a workaround for me. But thanks.

For those still experiencing the persistent "Welcome to Mail" dialogue after trying the other approaches here, here's something that may help. I tried the disable/re-enable accounts, rebooting, etc., all to no avail. I was not ready to remove all my mail files, start fresh, and drop my local folders back in yet, but I was ok doing one last thing.

In my Mail setup, I had several disabled accounts which I only activated once in a blue moon for testing/whatnot (e.g., my parents email setup to help them if they had trouble, etc.). What I did was flat out deleted these (using the minus [-] button below the accounts in Preferences... | Accounts tab. Granted, I had Mail.app flat out crash on me when I deleted the 2nd one (and I reported that), but when I fired up Mail again, no welcome message, and those accounts were gone. Haven't had the welcome message since.

I suspect Mail was seeing something in those accounts (since they were never active after the upgrade) indicating an old mail structure. Maybe launching Mail after upgrading and doing the "Welcome to Mail" bit to upgrade your mailboxes checks ALL accounts but only upgrades active ones. This would explain the behaviour I was seeing.

Anyway, thought I'd throw that out there. If you have disabled accounts, either delete them if you don't need them, or enable them and quit/start Mail to let it get at them. Then disable them again. Maybe that will help.

Thank's freesink, that worked. What I did was simply enabled the accounts which where in the list .. then disabled them again and all was fine.

greets.

Yes, this did it for me.

I was thinking about that direction bc I saw in the connectivity monitor that there was always some kind of hassle with the disabled accounts.

Though I have a bootable backup with 10.8.x I decided now to get rid of that accounts and afterward the dialog has gone.

Thanks for pointing that one out, fseesink

I needed a restart too.

Nope, I got all my e-mail again. No luck still.

Deleting two disabled accounts seems to have solved my problem, too. Quit and relaunched Mail, no "Welcome to Mail" screen! Yay!

None of these fixes worked for me. Further, I can never quit mail. I always have to force quit using option+command+esc.

Mavericks should not have been released. I am using 10.9.1 and there are so many bugs. I get weird hang ups, scrolling doesn't feel as efficient, and everything feels sluggish and heavy. I keep upgrading hoping they have fixed the issues, but I end up downgrading back to ML.

… I can never quit …

There's a separate bug report – not to be confused with the unexpected appaerance of the dialogue:

Mail Upgrade option to quit fails, force is required

Nothing else worked.

This worked for me, and its all I did. No disabling. Just deleting old accounts. took me to "internet accounts".

stupid mac, getting more and more like windows all the time....