Hi Bill,
You don't mention what version of OS X you are running. If running Lion
/Mountain Lion/ Mavericks or Yosemite
If you suspect that a mailbox contains errors, the standard cure-all is to
rebuild it. To do this, select the mailbox (or more than one) and choose
Mailbox > Rebuild.
If that doesn’t solve the problem, quit Mail, navigate to ~/Library/
Mail/V2/MailData and drag the files Envelope Index, Envelope Index-shm, and
Envelope Index-wal to the Trash.
(The tilde ~ represents your Home Library)
When you launch Mail again, you will receive “Welcome to Mail”- it will tell
you that your existing Mail messages need to be imported into the new version
the first time you use Mail. This might take a few minutes. You won’t be able
to use Mail until the import is finished.
Click Continue to import your messages now, or click Cancel to import later”.
(just as it may have done when you upgraded from Lion to Mountain Lion or M or
Y).
Click ‘Continue’
Depending on how many messages & mailboxes you have it can take awhile to
complete.
Let it complete the importing of all mailboxes (Inboxes & Sent Mailboxes) &
messages—it’s recreating your envelope index from scratch, but don’t worry, you
won’t lose any data, such as labels or message status—and when it finishes,
your mailboxes should behave correctly.
You might find after you have removed the Envelope Index files and Opened Mail
and Mail completed recreating your envelope index from scratch that you will
notice a lot of messages indicating they are ‘Unread’... just Select all & Mark
‘As Read’
When you again navigate to ~/Library/ Mail/V2/MailData
You might see two extra Envelope Index files with weird letters&numbers such
as:
“Envelope Index-T0x7ffc53b805b0.tmp.ka9wll-shm” & “Envelope
Index-T0x77ffc53b805b0.tmp.ka9wll-wal”
You can safely remove these two tmp files.
Cheers,
Ronni
13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014)
1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz
8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM
512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage
> On 31 Oct 2014, at 12:52 pm, Bill Parker <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> This time a small issue has turned into ? I have over 40 mailboxes “on my
> Mac”. I have about 25 Rules direct where mail goes. All are regularly
> checked as sender’s emails change.
>
> Today, its random. The emails are landing everywhere but where they should
> go. And some are duplicated!
>
> Bill
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