Mail not working in Maverick

Hello to all,

I simply can't start using mail after installing Maverick. Since the beginning it doesn't work. I Just got the following window, and it stays eternally in this situation:

Anyone has an Idea of what could solve this allowing me to continue using the Mail App?
Thanks in advance.

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I have installed maverick on my Mac Book Pro 2.8 ghz intel 2 duo, and mail opens but everytime i click on an email it crashes immediately, tried to repar permissions three times, and updated with the latest Java, but it is still happening, of course this is a disaster. please advise, thomas

Mail didn't respond in Mavericks, so here's what I did that worked:

open Mail>Preferences>Accounts & choose your account. Then on the 'Advanced Tab' change the (at the bottom) Authentication from 'Authenticated POP to Password. That did it for all my accounts, thank goodness or else it was going back to Mountain Lion.

MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), OS X Mavericks (10.9)

I have the same problem. I can view the list of all my email in my imbox or other mailboxes, and can compose a new email and send it, but as soon as I try to click on an email in my inbox to read it, mail crashes. I've tried changing the view, as I'm using the classic layout, but it still happens. I can send and receive emails fine, just can't read them.

I tried the solution mentioned about turning off account and turrning them back on again one at a time, but still the same problem.

I've upgraded from Lion. If I create a new user account and then set up my mail accounts in that user account Mail works fine, but I don't want to go down that doad with all my settings etc.

I think this has to do with upgrading to Mavericks from an earlier system, as I've done a fresh install on an iMac and I've had no such problems.

I hope someone figures this out soon!

No offense to you, pgpirkle, but, I can't believe this worked. It just seems so unlikely as this is, I think, just turning off receipt of email delivery. Whoulda thunk? I really appreciate you letting us know. Have a great weekend!

Hey guys, thanks for the replys. Yes, I had a look in another discussion and found this solution, and I can confirm that it works for me too. It's a strange one for sure.

I had assumed that it was because I was upgrading from a Mid 2008 MacPro, and sure after constant system upgrades I figured that surly there was some old code or preferences somewhere that was causing the issue.

I had modified Mail's plist file to get read receipts, so there's the culprit!

Have a good weekend guys!

I just upgraded to Maverick, also, and my Mail is working but

has a wee glitch. When I attach an animated gif to an email,

the gif doesn't "move." When I go to attach it, I see it's animation

clearly, but when I put it into the email message, it's static.

Any thoughts on how to get the animation back...?

Thanks.

iMac 10.9 (as of yesterday!)

This worked for me but I then had to reset all my mail viewing/setup options.

"I just got off the phone with Apple support. They had me open Terminal and key in

defaults delete com.apple.mail

My mail is now working."

It worked for me. But I've found that after upgrading to a new system of any version, it's always a good idea to shut down, restart, then shut down and restart again. It seems to clear out the machine a bit and gets everything running back as it should.

I also boot into the recovery HD drive and repair permissions at lease twice using the Disk Uitility, sometimes once doesn't seem to clear everything. Then at least we can then start to eliminate any other issues that might be causing problems.

To get to the Recovery HD drive, shut all your running Apps, then restart your Mac, hold down the "Alt" key on your keyboard while you select restart, and keep it held down. You'll see the normal grey screen, then be presented with all your startup disks, and you should see the Recovery HD partition in the list, just start up from that and choose the Disk Uitility option to open the Disk Uitility app. From the Disk Uitility app, select your normal startup drive and repair the permitions.

Hope it helps!

i have another problem with mail app. on the contacts i arranged some groups. if i want to mail them 'mail app' won't get the group. i renamed it, added some extra letters, as a new group name it worked. with my older groups it is not working. is there a way to correct it?

thank you.

Hi Paul,I have an iMac and I installed Maverick and I the same problem with the Mail I can receive but I can't send messsages. Also the mouse doesn't work properly. I hope this will be solved as soon as possible.

Cheers.

Pedro