My Apple Mail is showing 100 million incoming messages and climbing at a rate of about 20k per second

My Apple Mail is showing 100 million incoming messages and climbing at a rate of about 20k per second. Where are all these going and how do I get this to stop?

thanks

Mac Pro (Early 2008), OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)

Posted on Jun 3, 2014 9:19 AM

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Jun 3, 2014 9:25 AM in response to heplerphoto

Whoa, was your email exposed on a public forum/TV show?


First I would sign out of Mail right away.


Second I would go to your email's website and sign into there. Examples... icloud.com, hotmail.com, yahoo.com and whatever you use. Just to see if it's happening there. If it is happening there, then I strongly suggest changing your email address and whatever website you used it on for login information.


If it's not happening there, then hopefully when you sign back into Mail it won't happen again. If it does happen again, let us know. I wouldn't be able to help but maybe someone else could.


KOT

Jun 3, 2014 10:13 AM in response to heplerphoto

Can you take a screen capture and post it here? I find it hard to believe the numbers you claim since Mail is notoriously slow and even a decent mail server would also struggle to send that many that fast. That many might also have been expected to completely fill a hard disk.


It could be just a number error rather than there really being that many. The screen capture might help us determine this.

Jun 23, 2014 9:22 AM in response to davidfromcamberley

Is this a Gmail account? If yes, remove in System Preferences then add it back. Make sure all your settings are correct. Log into Gmail in Safari > Settings. For help see:


Use Gmail with Mavericks Mail

http://www.needhelp4mac.com/2013/12/use-gmail-with-mavericks-mail/


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