Many thanks for this Stephen. 3rd time was the charm in that a restart of Mail (unintentionally! pressed Command-Q thinking I was in Safari) made the Outbox disappear but I'll keep your answer on file in case it happens again.
All the best, Jason On 18 Apr 2009, at 10:00, [email protected] wrote: > > You're not going crazy Jason! > > Someone on a forum had a similar problem which they resolved so: > > I had the same problem for weeks, and here's what worked for me: > • Quit mail and go to username/Library/Preferences/ > • Move the com.apple.mail.plist file to the desktop and restart Mail > • Mail is now in it's initial state but what happened for me is a > message popped up saying (paraphrasing here) "A mailbox called Outbox > has been detected - this is an name reserved by Mail. This mailbox > will be renamed 'Delivered'..." Click OK to go to the next step > • Once you've gotten past that prompt then I quit Mail, replaced the > old com.apple.mail.plist file in the Preferences folder and restarted > Mail > > Once mail reopened everything was back the way it was, and it has been > working fine ever since. No idea how that mailbox was created in the > first place... > > > Don't know whether that's applicable but it may help ... > > Cheers, > > Stephen > > On 16 Apr 2009, at 10:29, Jason Kitcat wrote: > >> >> Hello >> >> I may be crazy but I'm sure that the 'Outbox' in Mail.app would only >> appear when there was a message waiting to be sent (e.g. when >> offline). However after an SMTP server problem yesterday I have an >> Outbox showing always no matter if I am online, offline or what and >> it's empty. >> >> Small thing but my muscle memory means that I'm clicking in the wrong >> place now as the Outbox has pushed all the usual mailboxes down one! >> >> Any ideas? >> >> Thanks, >> Jason >> >> >> >>> > > "The culmination and final war for human liberty" - Woodrow Wilson, US > president, January 1918, predicting that World War 1 would be the last > global war. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" 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/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
