Oh, and I forgot .... Mail can sit for 5 minutes first saying "Checking for Mail..." and then "Downloading 1 message". This could be a symptom of it trying to traverse all the endless email folders I have in my account (mostly for old travel info)?
Bill
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On Oct 23, 2024, at 14:40, Bill Rising via groups.io <brising@...> wrote:
Hey folks,
I've been having real trouble with Apple's mail of late.
* I wrote two emails, and sent them. Despite having left my laptop open, the emails never got sent after their 'Undo send delay'. In fact, when I poked around in Mail.app more carefully 2 days later, both were stuck in Outbox > Scheduled. Neither could be sent, either by opening them and sending them, or by dragging them to drafts and then sending. So... I had to copy and paste their contents and resend them.
* I wrote a very long, possibly contentious email, and saved it as a draft (which is what I do whenever an email needs extra care). The next day, the draft was gone, so I had to rewrite the email.
* I could not find the confirmation email for a bus ticket I bought last month. I had to have had the original email at some point, since I already used one half of the round trip. It was not in my trash, though other emails from the same day were happily in the trash. I called to get it resent. It never arrived. So I got the bus company to send it through an email forwarding address from my alma mater. It arrived.
What would cause instability like this? Is it because I have waaaaaay too many emails I still drag around?
It could be dementia starting to set in, too, but before jumping to that conclusion, I'm wondering what I could do to try and fix something more mechanical.
Thanks for any info or ideas,
Bill
