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Mac Mail is very messed up and stuck moving messages ???


 

Yes - my mail has been slowly getting worse and worse about where folders are. Today Mail bit the dust - The messages go to the wrong boxes, very very old messages show up from ????, my emails go through but I can¡¯t read them - I wonder if I¡¯ll be able to read this (if there will be anything to read) when it gets to me as part of this group.

MacBook Air Sonoma M3 16gb
Sonoma 14.6.1

Mail - 16.0

I have 2 accounts -
SBCglobal.net - main account
Google (for some mail and a couple other things, Notes)
iCloud

Mail also sorts them in SBCGlobal.net *or* something called ¡°On My Mac.¡± - It seems that different senders/recipients have folders in one place or the other but these have gotten mixed up very badly over the last few days.

Help! I tried ¡°Rebuild Mail¡± and some things changed but it keeps ¡°Moving Messages¡± - even right through a ¡°restart¡± of everything. I think the count down there at the bottom of the mailboxes list on the far left is "Moving Messages 1 of 10.¡±

Oh help - LOL! (But not) ¡®
Becky


 

Me again - ? that message went through but I was unable to read it when it came to me in my Mac mailbox. ?Only the headers showed up. ?It also went to the group site (Groups.io) and I was able to read it there. ??
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Becky?
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So you have 3 accounts then???

cjc

On 26 Oct 2024, at 11:34?am, Becky Lindroos <bekah0176@...> wrote:

Yes - my mail has been slowly getting worse and worse about where folders are. Today Mail bit the dust - The messages go to the wrong boxes, very very old messages show up from ????, my emails go through but I can¡¯t read them - I wonder if I¡¯ll be able to read this (if there will be anything to read) when it gets to me as part of this group.

MacBook Air Sonoma M3 16gb
Sonoma 14.6.1

Mail - 16.0

I have 2 accounts -
SBCglobal.net - main account
Google (for some mail and a couple other things, Notes)
iCloud

Mail also sorts them in SBCGlobal.net *or* something called ¡°On My Mac.¡± - It seems that different senders/recipients have folders in one place or the other but these have gotten mixed up very badly over the last few days.

Help! I tried ¡°Rebuild Mail¡± and some things changed but it keeps ¡°Moving Messages¡± - even right through a ¡°restart¡± of everything. I think the count down there at the bottom of the mailboxes list on the far left is "Moving Messages 1 of 10.¡±

Oh help - LOL! (But not) ¡®
Becky


 

Maybe there are 4 accounts total if you con't count mail accounts - it says under ?they're general "intenet accounts" listed in "Mail" and in "System Settings." ?


 

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I found the following article, though it sounds like you¡¯ve already done some of them. ?Note that it can take quite a bit of time to download messages after rebuilding mailboxes and some other actions.


I¡¯m sure that you¡¯re already aware of the following, but it bears repeating. ?Your ¡°On my Mac¡± mailbox is just that, exclusively on your Mac. ?If those aren¡¯t duplicates of messages on your email server, then they are the sole copies of those messages. ?

On Oct 25, 2024, at 7:34?PM, Becky Lindroos via groups.io <bekah0176@...> wrote:

Yes - ?my mail has been slowly getting worse and worse about where folders are. ?Today Mail bit the dust - The messages go to the wrong boxes, ?very very old messages show up from ????, my emails go through but I can¡¯t read them - ?I wonder if I¡¯ll be able to read this (if there will be anything to read) when it gets to me as part of this group. ?

MacBook Air Sonoma M3 16gb
Sonoma 14.6.1

Mail - 16.0

I have 2 accounts -
SBCglobal.net - main account
Google (for some mail and a couple other things, Notes)
iCloud

Mail also sorts them in SBCGlobal.net *or* something called ¡°On My Mac.¡± - ?It seems that different senders/recipients have folders in one place or the other but these have gotten mixed up very badly over the last few days.

Help! ?I tried ¡°Rebuild Mail¡± and some things changed but it keeps ¡°Moving Messages¡± - ?even right through a ¡°restart¡± of everything. ?I think the count down there at the bottom of the mailboxes list on the far left is ?"Moving Messages 1 of 10.¡±

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Bev in TX


 

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Thanks, Bev. ? I also remembered that my server had gone down on some night just prior - ?Maybe Thursday night? ?And then Friday my Mail program ?was really really (!) bad. ?

It¡¯s fixed for now, but I¡¯d like to know more and get it better. ?

Thank again,?
Becky ?

On Oct 28, 2024, at 11:37?AM, Bev in TX <countryone77@...> wrote:

I found the following article, though it sounds like you¡¯ve already done some of them. ?Note that it can take quite a bit of time to download messages after rebuilding mailboxes and some other actions.


I¡¯m sure that you¡¯re already aware of the following, but it bears repeating. ?Your ¡°On my Mac¡± mailbox is just that, exclusively on your Mac. ?If those aren¡¯t duplicates of messages on your email server, then they are the sole copies of those messages. ?
On Oct 25, 2024, at 7:34?PM, Becky Lindroos via groups.io <bekah0176@...> wrote:

Yes - ?my mail has been slowly getting worse and worse about where folders are. ?Today Mail bit the dust - The messages go to the wrong boxes, ?very very old messages show up from ????, my emails go through but I can¡¯t read them - ?I wonder if I¡¯ll be able to read this (if there will be anything to read) when it gets to me as part of this group. ?

MacBook Air Sonoma M3 16gb
Sonoma 14.6.1

Mail - 16.0

I have 2 accounts -
SBCglobal.net - main account
Google (for some mail and a couple other things, Notes)
iCloud

Mail also sorts them in SBCGlobal.net *or* something called ¡°On My Mac.¡± - ?It seems that different senders/recipients have folders in one place or the other but these have gotten mixed up very badly over the last few days.

Help! ?I tried ¡°Rebuild Mail¡± and some things changed but it keeps ¡°Moving Messages¡± - ?even right through a ¡°restart¡± of everything. ?I think the count down there at the bottom of the mailboxes list on the far left is ?"Moving Messages 1 of 10.¡±

--
Bev in TX