{"id":7113,"date":"2014-05-23T06:52:08","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T06:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2014\/05\/23\/mail-apprelated-issues-collection-of-common-programming-errors\/"},"modified":"2014-05-23T06:52:08","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T06:52:08","slug":"mail-apprelated-issues-collection-of-common-programming-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2014\/05\/23\/mail-apprelated-issues-collection-of-common-programming-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"mail.appRelated issues-Collection of common programming errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3008d0c3f0f8b3d1b04bcba7ce8556f6?s=32&amp;d=identicon&amp;r=PG\" \/><br \/>\nwrick<br \/>\nosx mac mail.app imap hotmail<br \/>\nI have had an Hotmail account since 1997 (i.e. don&#8217;t ask me to switch &#8211; have hundreds of filters and folders and thousands of contacts) and I recently switched to a Mac and I am looking for a Mac client that would deliver the same functionality as Windows Live Mail did in my PC. Also, don&#8217;t ask me to forward\/import to Gmail. I have tried that numerous times &#8211; Gmail fails at importing filter rules or nested folders properly from Hotmail and it also has numerous issues with sync and contacts etc w<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a387199898dd4f2e108df042046cfbd1?s=32&amp;d=identicon&amp;r=PG\" \/><br \/>\nBryson<br \/>\nmail.app email ios-7 exchange configuration-profiles<br \/>\nMy IT department has this great idea: if you want to read your work email on your personal device, you have to give us total access to the device. Well, no. It&#8217;s my personal device, you can&#8217;t have it. So I can&#8217;t have work email.Then I discover there are apps for Android that really don&#8217;t care what my IT dept thinks, and they connect to Exchange for the emails anyway. Then I discover Mail+, which does the same thing in iOS: Connecting to my company&#8217;s Exchange server without the profiles installed<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b009e441193afb6b0858590b6c9ac49e?s=32&amp;d=identicon&amp;r=PG\" \/><br \/>\nGeorge C<br \/>\nmail.app applescript contacts<br \/>\nI&#8217;m trying to set up an Applescript to add the sender of a selected message in Apple Mail to a specific group in the Contacts app. By reconfiguring the code provided in this answer, I worked up the following but it isn&#8217;t working. Any suggestions on what I am doing wrong?tell application &#8220;Mail&#8221;set theMessage to selectiontell application &#8220;Contacts&#8221;set theGroup to &#8220;_TEST&#8221;end tellset theSender to sender of theMessagetell application &#8220;Contacts&#8221;set theName to name of theSenderset thePerson to make new<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7e4fbb2efd3b3bbedcd75a726b694ae4?s=32&amp;d=identicon&amp;r=PG\" \/><br \/>\njmlumpkin<br \/>\nosx mountain-lion mail.app ms-office exchange<br \/>\nI am meeting an unexpected issue where Mail app connects just fine to my Exchange 2007 server given my email address, login and password (autodiscovery), but Outlook 2011 fails to connect. If I try to copy the settings Mail app discovers by itself to Outlook, I still don&#8217;t get any connection. I am using my Mac behind a VPN where I redirected the http and https ports to a proxy. I can connect fine through the web interface with https:\/\/myserver\/owa.Can I export my account configuration from Mail<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6d7501d647af525b68d81ee84021ddf0?s=32&amp;d=identicon&amp;r=PG\" \/><br \/>\nAsh<br \/>\nmail.app<br \/>\nMy Mac Mail has just started going on the fritz. I have a gmail account linked to mail and also a hotmail account. Both have warning signs and I cannot send or receive mail. They were both fine yesterday. I have not updated or changed anything.I am running OS X 10.8.2 and Mail Version 6.1 (1498).When I click on the warning sign for gmail to &#8216;take it online&#8217; I get the following message:Unable to receive mail. There may be a problem with the mail server ornetwork. Verify the settings for account &#8220;<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gravatar.com\/avatar\/aa5849badbc0a751cec38a4e54bca870?s=32&amp;d=identicon&amp;r=PG\" \/><br \/>\nCEAFDC<br \/>\nmountain-lion mail.app<br \/>\nIs there some way to the make mail.app open on boot, and maintain always opened? Like a service in linux. It would be perfect if it continues to run even when not showing on Dock or on &#8220;command+tab&#8221;, but still showing notifications.<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gravatar.com\/avatar\/02f02fcd0e0adfd6f5d5d1d594a8953c?s=32&amp;d=identicon&amp;r=PG\" \/><br \/>\nAbe Miessler<br \/>\nosx mail.app macbook-air<br \/>\nOk, let me start by saying that I just started using a Mac about two months ago.Yesterday I was doing something that kicked off about 500 emails to my email account. When I tried to open my mail app, it pops up and then the cursor turns to a beachball that spins. After this I have to do a force quit to get out.I tried looking at the logs in the console, but it appears to be a giant stack trace that is pretty much meaningless to me. Any suggestions on where to start to get this resolved?Below<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4a77a27dc0e2a0ffc84f334ca4bb5a64?s=32&amp;d=identicon&amp;r=PG\" \/><br \/>\ninspiredlife<br \/>\nfinder mail.app shortcut-menu<br \/>\nI am aware of ways to remove duplicate entries from the Finder &#8220;Open with&#8230;&#8221; menu. But in this instance I simply want to cull down the list of apps that appear when I do &#8220;Open with&#8230;&#8221; on pictures. Right now, in Mail (although it&#8217;s the same in Finder, of course), when I do Open With on .jpg files, I get a LONG list of apps, many of which I would never consider opening a picture in. Even a music editing app, that has nothing to do with jpg files (in my opinion) shows up.Is there a way to edit th<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f1dc31549982d505448cf5e10b898d69?s=32&amp;d=identicon&amp;r=PG\" \/><br \/>\nAlex<br \/>\nlion mail.app<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve got a major cluster-fart on one of my IMAP accounts that&#8217;s being hammered by bounce messages as backscatter. Over the weekend my Mail on 10.7.4 crashed with a [Crashed Thread: 20 -[MailApp _doBackgroundFetch:]].Reading up on Google for when Mail unexpectedly crashes 30 sec after loading that I should find the message that&#8217;s causing it to crash and remove it. The trouble is finding it given I have several mailboxes. And I know where the ~\/Library\/Mail\/ folder is. My problem, after having m<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gravatar.com\/avatar\/78090220abb50b2fee758d8acb89ca67?s=32&amp;d=identicon&amp;r=PG\" \/><br \/>\nelpsk<br \/>\nlion mail.app crash<br \/>\ni rollbacked from Mountain Lion developer preview to Lion. Works fine, but Mail App won&#8217;t open and crash&#8230;Here crash log:Process: Mail [791] Path: \/Applications\/Mail.app\/Contents\/MacOS\/Mail Identifier: com.apple.mail Version: 5.2 (1257) Build Info: Mail-1257000000000000~1 Code Type: X86-64 (Native) Parent Process: launchd [192]Date\/Time: 2012-03-02 09:58:58.830 +0100 OS Version: Mac OS X 10.7.3 (11D50) Report Version: 9Interval Since Last<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Web site is in building<\/p>\n<p>I discovery a place to host code\u3001demo\u3001 blog and websites.<br \/>\nSite access is fast but not money<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.m5zn.com\/newuploads\/2014\/01\/30\/jpg\/e7da807964b1fff.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>wrick osx mac mail.app imap hotmail I have had an Hotmail account since 1997 (i.e. don&#8217;t ask me to switch &#8211; have hundreds of filters and folders and thousands of contacts) and I recently switched to a Mac and I am looking for a Mac client that would deliver the same functionality as Windows Live [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}