mac mail gone mad immediately after installing El Capitan

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mac mail gone mad immediately after installing El Capitan

Just downloaded El Capitan and my mac mail is behaving oddly. Individual mail messages flashing on and off on screen and resending lots of sent mails.

help!

MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)

Posted on Oct 8, 2015 2:29 AM

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Answer 1

Linc Davis

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Oct 8, 2015 9:26 AM in response to patsands

When you see that activity, note the exact time: hour, minute, second.

These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:

☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)

☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.

☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.

The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select

SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages

from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select

View ▹ Show Log List

from the menu bar at the top of the screen.

Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Scroll back to the time you noted above.

Select the messages entered from then until the end of the episode, or until they start to repeat, whichever comes first.

Copy the messages to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.

The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of it useless for solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.

Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.

Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.

Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

When you post the log extract, you might see an error message on the web page: "You have included content in your post that is not permitted," or "The message contains invalid characters." That's a bug in the forum software. Please post the text on Pastebin, then post a link here to the page you created.

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Answer 2

noeqplease

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3,589 points

Mar 26, 2016 11:10 AM in response to Linc Davis

Hi Linc,

I am also having a horrible issue with Mail, in which I open Mail, and there is a pending outgoing message in the outbox. It opens this message, then keeps changing focus between the main mail viewer window and this outgoing mail. Incoming mail does come in, but ther eis no way to stop it from changing focus, which is every half a second or so. Here is the console log output for this behavior:

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3/26/16 11:08:04.483 AM com.apple.cts[4136]: com.apple.ical.sync.x-coredata://58B80EE1-7A39-4D62-BF93-CF4D0E6E0673/CalDAVPri ncipal/p3: scheduler_evaluate_activity told me to run this job; however, but the start time isn't for 3851 seconds. Ignoring.

3/26/16 11:08:04.644 AM accountsd[4170]: [AOSAccounts] : [MMCopyMailAliasForAccount] : Error from _AOSAccountRetrieveMailAliasInfo Error Domain=AOSErrorDomain Code=1000 "(null)"

3/26/16 11:08:04.645 AM accountsd[4170]: [AOSAccounts] : [iCloudAccountAuthorizationPlugin] -[iCloudIDAuthenticationPlugin discoverPropertiesForAccount:accountStore:options:completion:] : mailProperties was not modified for account ID: (EDITEDOUT)

3/26/16 11:08:04.675 AM com.apple.cts[4136]: com.apple.ical.sync.x-coredata://58B80EE1-7A39-4D62-BF93-CF4D0E6E0673/CalDAVPri ncipal/p3: scheduler_evaluate_activity told me to run this job; however, but the start time isn't for 3851 seconds. Ignoring.

3/26/16 11:08:06.999 AM Mail[15124]: XOAUTH2 requires user

3/26/16 11:08:06.999 AM Mail[15124]: Failed to start the SASL connection