the issue in question can occur with certain mail servers like gmail, sky, etc from my experience. it's not an issue with the macs themselves. there may be a settings issue but the likelihood of that is rather minimal.
in your mail system, there will be a folder created called recovered emails or something like that. delete it. secondly go to your outbox and delete these messages sent. then quit mail, restart mail and this should solve the problem. failing this, force quit mail with command option escape. the likelihood is that the main mail server is having trouble with accounts and some puppet on a string type is pushing patch cables around whilst singing from Mary Poppins. Don't quote me on that but... Marvelous. give it a day or so is my best guidance. if this still persists, then the worst possible scenario is a rebuild of the OS if there's a setting that has corrupted itself. run disk permissions on both systems. a tip I should share with you all. if you're doing a rebuild or fresh install of the OS, after all your apps are installed, perform a disk permissions repair then after this, create a time machine backup if you have the means to do so. lew On 7 Apr 2012, at 15:14, Paul Erkens wrote: > Dear listers, > My wife has a mac running Lion with all updates. Her mail started acting > strangely, and I can't solve it for now so I'm hoping one of you knows what > is going on. > > One of her mail accounts has a problem. If I send a test message from my > wife's mac to myself, with just test in the subject field and blablabla in > the body and I send that off, then mail starts sending. But even though this > is only a very short message, mail keeps transmitting data. Not just for a > minute, but for an hour, if you leave it running. It keeps transmitting until > I cancel it. I see the kbps counter change somewhat from time to time, so it > looks like a transmission of a large message, but it's not. Test is the only > message in outbox, and her other accounts have no mail waiting to be sent. It > says test, in the mail activity, which was indeed the subject of the message > now being sent, and the progress bar hangs at 51 percent. And not just once, > but each time I try it. I then cancel sending of the outgoing message, I > delete the test message to be sent from her outbox, I exit and re open mail, > I create a new message called test2, and try again. Same thing happens. > Instead of hearing the whoosh sound, meaning the message was sent out > correctly, the kpbs counter is there, taking up my full outbound bandwidth, > the progress bar hangs at 51 percent, and that's where it remains until > canceled. She can't receive new mail, and it is becoming rather > uncomfortable. > > Any idea what is happening here? Of course, I could back up her machine, > reinstall Lion from scratch, install all her apps again and then recreate her > mail accounts, hoping this won't happen again. But it's not Apple like, to do > that. I reinstalled her windows several times over the years, but I'm hoping > this belongs to the past. What may be going on here? Any help is appreciated. > > Paul. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
