Thanks, David,
I rebuilt the individual account inboxes and the ghosts vanished
instantaneously!
Gosh, that was simple! Why didn't I think of expanding the Inbox?!
Alvin
On Nov 4, 2008, at 2:43 AM, David K Watson wrote:
You are right that you can't rebuild the inbox. However, expand
the inbox (click on the right-pointing triangle next to the inbox)
and you should be able to rebuild each of the single account
inboxes under the main inbox. If you rebuilt all your inboxes
and all of your other mailboxes, you'll get back some space and
you won't have the mismatch between messages showing and
actual messages as often.
I also second the idea of checking your mail via the web. I remember
once having a similar type of problem that was caused because
the message on the server immediately before the ghost message
was corrupted in a way that the mail server couldn't handle. If
you can, log into your account on the web and try deleting the
ghost messages there as well as anything preceding them
that looks suspicious.
If that doesn't work, I'd try again to move the messages out and
rebuilding the mailbox. This time try it t for just those messages in
the problem account, and keep holding the mouse down over the
new location when dragging them over until you can see that
Mail is ready to move them, because Mail can be very slow in
moving a lot of messages. This is particularly true for mailboxes
that haven't been rebuilt in a while.
Mathew,
Thanks for the idea, but when I try to move the messages, they just
bounce back to the Inbox. Also, Mail doesn't allow the Inbox to be
rebuilt (at least on my machine!). It would be interesting if it's
allowable on someone else's machine.
Alvin
On Nov 3, 2008, at 8:17 PM, Matthew Taylor wrote:
You might try moving all the messages out of the inbox into another
local folder (you can always move them back if you want). With your
inbox zeroed out, rebuild the mailbox. Use the web interface for
your mail account to make certain the headers or entire messages are
not still on the server - if they are, delete them there.
Matthew
On Nov 3, 2008, at 4:38 PM, Alvin Auerbach wrote:
ClamXav 1.1.1 looked at Apple's Mail and found 2 incoming messages
that were suspicious, and asked to delete them. I gave the okay,
and the messages were moved to the computer's trash. However, the 2
messages are still listed in the Inbox. box. When I open them, they
are blank - ghosts!
When I delete them, they remain in the Inbox.
When I drag them to another mailbox - Trash, Junk, anything, they
remain in the Inbox.
I used [command-delete]. Didn't work.
I opened the Mail folder in my Home library, and dragged the
INBOX.imapmbox folder to the desktop. Mail created another one, and
the ghost messages remain, and the Messages folder with in the
Inbox folder is empty.
I checked Apple and Google, and found a problem like that with AOL
mail, and the solution was to update the OS. Both my OS and my Mail
program are the latest version.
I found a reference to a similar problem, but their solution was to
change the type of email account.
Rebuild the Mailbox does not apply to the Inbox.
I replaced the app from my Leopard disk.
The message count is often wrong, but I ignored it. Is this a clue?
I save most of my mail, and the size of my Mail folder is 1.45 GB.
Is that a factor?
Does anyone have any ideas on how to exorcise these ghost
messages?!
Alvin
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