Mail ate my mails :-(((

giaguaragiaguara
Posted:
in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Mail (of OS X) just ate my emails that were in the inbox!!



Why???



I use 10.1.4 and download all the mails from server. I had most of my mails in inbox and they were all ok till today morning when i opened it! so after weeks they were dead today empty as my wallet



The only modification i have done recently is to see the full header as standard, that shouldn't have to do with it...



:eek:



I'm in shock.. what has happened???



<img src="confused.gif" border="0">

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 12
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    [quote]Originally posted by Mulattabianca:

    <strong>I'm in shock.. what has happened???



    </strong><hr></blockquote>



    Well, I'm no expert, but it sounds like Mail has eaten all your emails ;-)
  • Reply 2 of 12
    giaguaragiaguara Posts: 2,724member
    Well i know it ate my mails... :eek:



    <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" /> <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" /> <img src="graemlins/embarrassed.gif" border="0" alt="[Embarrassed]" />
  • Reply 3 of 12
    newnew Posts: 3,244member
    I've had mail act wierd on me a few times as well, I ditched it in 10.1.5 because of the lack of features, but migrated back in 10.2 , mainly because of the adressbook and spamfilter...



    First tme I ran mail (1.2) it ate quite a few of my emails and refused to download a few others, but it has been stabel (but a bit slow) ever since...
  • Reply 4 of 12
    giaguaragiaguara Posts: 2,724member
    Ok i hope it'll be more stable in Jaguar then.. <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />



    I thought these weird things happen only with windows... <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
  • Reply 5 of 12
    giaguaragiaguara Posts: 2,724member
    actually i found the mails then... not in inbox but in library/mails ecc..



    so i copied the inbox and changed its name to inbox702 so now i have all the mails of the last 2 months there...



    <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />



    but why were they invisible in inbox???
  • Reply 6 of 12
    kickahakickaha Posts: 8,760member
    The message index may have been corrupted - I've seen it happen before. The messages are all still there, but it isn't quite sure how to get to them. At best, you'll end up with a listing of the number of emails, but no headers, no text.



    Copying the .mbox file over and forcing Mail to rebuild the index from a fresh parsing of the file generally fixes it, as you found out.
  • Reply 7 of 12
    giaguaragiaguara Posts: 2,724member
    well today it was worse.



    first.. something i can't understand with the ibook in general; it goes to white (the video) with black stripes.. nothing... so i restart and it's sloooooooooow... :confused: <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />



    then i find the messages in inbox that i have already cancelled. now they should be filtered as well <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" /> i find the 4th time the same messages in the inbox .. :eek:



    gee... i'm shocked.. my ibook cheats me...
  • Reply 8 of 12
    kickahakickaha Posts: 8,760member
    Sounds like a hardware problem. Bad RAM could cause all those symptoms. The standard RAM check doesn't perform an exhaustive scan of tests. Get Gauge Pro (versiontracker.com) and test it with that. You'll have to boot into 9 to use it.



    Saved *MY* butt.
  • Reply 9 of 12
    eugeneeugene Posts: 8,254member
    "I'm here to fix the cable...er...iBook"
  • Reply 10 of 12
    giaguaragiaguara Posts: 2,724member
    Now the mails don't care anymore..



    it does <a href="http://digilander.libero.it/BackOrifice2002/problem.jpg"; target="_blank">this </a> kernel thing .. and <a href="http://digilander.libero.it/BackOrifice2002/problem2.jpg"; target="_blank">BAR CODE</a> which DOES scare me :eek: :eek: :eek:



    now this lastest thing is in the kernel panic thread so go there...



    i hope the mails and the rest will be fixed when i switch to Jag
  • Reply 11 of 12
    burningwheelburningwheel Posts: 1,827member
    i had the same thing happen, but i deleted the mbox in question by accident just before i figured out how i might fix it! <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
  • Reply 12 of 12
    torifiletorifile Posts: 4,024member
    If you don't quit mail gracefully, it will not save the changes you've made to your messages. Also, something to watch out for is the "delete messages older than:" option in your accounts preference in mail. Just upgrade to Jag and things will be better.
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