Mail's 11/7 update worse

I'm having issues as well. My Mail won't even upgrade. Just goes into the spinning wheel of death. Will not update the databases. Progress bar will not make it past halfway mark. Tried to migrate backwards using Time Machine. TM will not allow me to go back to an earlier version. Not happy and not sure what to try next.

Yep. I'm having issues too after the latest mail update. Now all my Exchange account won't sync. I've tried removing them and re-adding with no luck.

I have the same issue as jebidry after upgrading this morning. I also get the spinning wheel of death at the half way point when it tries to update the databases at startup. This is a REALLY bad situation for me as my daily workflow depends heavily on accessing email.

I really hope there's a solution soon.

This is ridiculous!. I cleared out all my mailboxes from the library, reinstalled them from the various cloud, gmail and exchange services, ran kind of clunky for a bit now has frozen again? failure to launch. How can they have such problem with the most basic of operating fucntions for the macbook?

iCloud Mail.

Password – iCloud not saved in Mavericks

Run Mail/Window/Connection Doctor to see if you are connected to the servers.

Troubleshooting sending and receiving email messages

You also might want to update your profile which shows 10.7.3.

I found a way to get through the database update on my system. Hope this suggestion can help anyone else stuck where I was.

I force-quit Mail and restarted my machine in safe mode (by holding the Shift key down during restart.)

I then restarted Mail and after a 20 second hang, it switched to "Optimizing database" and then finished and opened my windows.

Everything now appears to be working except that my smart mailboxes are a little wierd. They seem to not recognize that mail that just came in fits into the category of "Less Than 24 days old" and that's the problem I'll have to look into next.

Thanks, Irtitze.

This worked for me. Now if only I could get back the 5+ hours I have wasted dealing with this catastrophe.

And now here's a solution for my Smart Mailbox problem.

I created a new Smart Mailbox (to check a simpler rule) and suddenly all of my other Smart Mailboxes sprang back to life!

Same here, no real problems with mail, updated it today and now it will not send anything.

lifes too short will spend some time tinkering tomorrow

Irtitze -

You're a f-in' genius! Both your suggestions worked and are the only reason Mavericks is still my OS. As you experienced, with my laptop in safe mode Mail ran very slowly - at times I was sure it had frozen, but it rebuilt my accounts eventually and the app opened. Mail was back on my computer. But no smart boxes. This morning I read your follow-up and I did the same thing; created a smart mailbox. Once it was in the sidebar, putting my cursor on the name brought up the word "show" next to it. Clicking on that immediately brought all the old mailboxes to the screen. Thank Jobs! And thank you.

Sounds like the app CAN work so it should be easy enough for Apple developers to fix these issues and get it right for the next release.