Apple Mail POP Not Working
Posted: October 21st, 2007 | Author: saldarji | Filed under: technology | 1 Comment »Tracey had a bizarre issue with her Apple Mail this week, identical to this one. It started with a flood of messages from the POP server. The server had a message in queue with zero-bytes and it prevented her from downloading the remaining messages off of the server. I’m not sure which came first, the flood of messages or the fubar’d message.
The obvious solution to the problem is to go in through the webmail and delete the offending message there. The less obvious solution is to right click on the Mail account, click on “Get Info”, and delete the empty mail message from the list of emails on the server. Once the bad message is gone, the rest of the messages should come flooding in.
I’m not sure why everyone is crazy for all the Apple products. In my unofficial job as IT support for friends and family I spend just as much time dealing with Mac issues as I do with Windows issues. (When it comes to Linux issues, I rely on the professionals.)
I have another weird Apple Mail problem after installing Leopard. Whenever I try to delete a message from my inbox it just turns a pale shade of grey but will not disappear from my inbox.
If I try to move it to the Deleted Messages mailbox they still remain in the Inbox in grey and don’t show up in the Deleted Messages box. This leaves a lot of unwanted stuff in my inbox.
Does anyone have a suggestion about how to fix this? Thanks,
Chris