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)
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
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.
Is this a Gmail account? Is it setup as POP or IMAP?
Who is email provider?
Regardless of who is provider, I would remove the account in System Preferences > Internet Accounts.
Once we have more info we can suggest options to deal with your problem.
I have the same problem - hundreds of millions of messages showing as arriving, but they obviously don't exist as I only see the genuine incoming mail. I am laboriously backing up the computer to a new Time Capsule - might this explain it?
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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I have the same issue.
I have many unread emails in my gmail account, but Mail cannot get them on time. Looks like it is too busy to get millions of emails.
Back up all data. Rebuild the mailbox.
I am also getting now over one million messages as I write. Please can you tell me how you handled this situation. Thanks.
If you aren't actually getting that many e-mails, quit Mail and reopen to reset Mail.
My Apple Mail is showing 100 million incoming messages and climbing at a rate of about 20k per second
