Mail quit unexpectedly

note.... I also had to go into system prefs / iCloud / options / and uncheck 'mail'

to stop the rules file from returning

I have had Mail crash problems for months even before upgrading from Mavericks to Yosemite. This worked a treat and hopefully I won't have any more crashes.

I had the same problem and the crash are due to a rule that try moving mails in a directory that doesn't exist anymore.

Rebuilding the mail indexes then fixing the rule, fixed the problem.

NOT working for me (at least mail.app is not crashing anymore on launch), the import is stuck at message 7917 of 23146. i canceled after 4 hours of no progress. what can i do to fix this? the mail.app is somewhat important for me...

i upgraded from 10.9.5 directly to 10.10.4, although i don't expect this to be the root cause of the problem.

found the problem:

in one of my mailboxes of my various accounts there was a "Inbox.mbox", apparently this mailbox is in a different format than what mail.app expects normally. i checked it in terminal (find ~/Library/Mail/V2 -type d -name "*Inbox*"), all other "similar" mailboxes are named "INBOX.mbox". lucky i found the difference in the naming (see screenshot in my previous post). i simply moved the Inbox.mbox to the desktop and mail.app was able to import everything.

not sure what to do with the Inbox.mbox i have moved to the desktop, it's archived stuff from an inactive account. i guess i'll just drop it.

Thanks. This worked for me but I had to go through the process twice. Seems to be working now - I've been able to send an email without mail crashing.

I found Virtru and removed it and mail started working

Unfortunately it doesn't work in my case.

So, an error info is:

Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'Absolute path passed into -[MFIMAPAccount mailboxForRelativePath:isFilesystemPath:create:]: /INBOX'

abort() called

terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException

I did everything from your advise but an error still exists. How else could I try to fix it?

This finally worked for me. EXCEPT that I lost all email, recieved and sent over the past few years, in my targeted mailboxes. Do you know how to retrieve?

You might want to consider starting a new discussion. Since this one is marked solved, less people are likely to look at it. You can link to this one.

Try rebuilding the mailbox.

Rebuild mailbox

This finally worked for me. EXCEPT that I lost all email, recieved and sent over the past few years, except my smart mailboxes.

Then...............

After going to Library- Mail-V2- Pop account for comcast to INBOX.mboc to a bunch of letters and numbers to DATA to more numbers in order of 1-9 FOLDERS then to Messages; Lo and behold I found 1000's of inbox emails. They are numbered in one list from 88000.emix to 88999.emix dated for two months in 2011. They do open in the mail window format as if using 'Viewer".

Now the question is how do I get them back into my Mail App ??

Anyone?

My initial inquiry was marked as solved but it is not.

open mail app - inbox . after that do a right click on inbox . then click on account info - quota limits.

is limit exceeding 18.25 GB .

use the same method for sent mails .

i have done everything, but still i am getting same error😟. what can i do now please.....?