Notifications says 1 msg but nothing in my "inbox". I deleted some old message to "kick it into action" and no change except the notification is no longer there. I think it's broke.
Often this will clear if you quit/restart Mail, or logout/in or restart the machine.
Failing any of those options you might consider some basic Mail.app maintenance. There is a file ~/Library/Mail/Envelope Index (EI) which is the heart of Mail. This is a database of all the comings, goings, movements and deletions of all messages. It just grows and grows, and as it gets bigger two things happen. Firstly, Mail slows down as searches for messages etc. take progressively longer. Secondly, the file can become corrupted causing all sorts of anomalous behaviour such as phantom and missing messages, as well as erroneous counts.
I strongly advise reading the linked discussions before doing this and making a quality backup, however it has worked well for me and my clients. As always, YMMV, caveat emptor.
That was the best reply I ever got, rgray. Unfortunately, I was referring to my ehmac.ca PM inbox But I'm glad this got posted as I do also have a message in my drafts folder in Mail that I can't delete. Cheers!
This basic Mail.app maintenance thing is kind of a 'hobby horse' of mine. I have solved countless Mail problems by doing it. I have been meaning to write it up and bost it on my pathetic little blog of Mac tips and tricks for friends and clients at sundog.ca, so collecting all the parts of the argument was useful.
OK, folks. Just to put closure to how easy it is to do this mail maintenance, I did it again just right now from download to finished run.
I do this (one way or another) fairly often so the shrinkage in the size of ~/Library/Mail/Envelope Index is fairly small. Today it went from 3.3Mb to 2.9Mb. If you have carried a lot of mail over time and, say also, from machine to machine and across OS levels, the file can grow huge. The guy who wrote the original macosxhint shrank his EI file from 200Mb to 2!!! :yikes: After this cleanup Mail will feel zippier, searches quicker, no phantom or lost messages.
As always, YMMV, caveat emptor, dude...... Here's how
Run the installer, which does a nice job putting VM into the Utilities folder inside Applications.
Note size of the EI file (go to ~/Library/Mail/Envelope Index)
Run VM and follow the instructions.
When VM is done, You're done! This can take an almost disturbing length of time if you have never done it before - actually time will vary directly with the size of the original EI file. Ed McMahon said that drink was God's payment for hard work so grab yourself a beer, and one for me while you're there .
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