Mail activity wheel keeps spinning!!!!

igeoff · igeoff #1 (**permalink**)

11-16-2010, 08:13 AM

Hi, Last night i went to send an email with lots of photos so i attached them all (80mb) then knowing this was far too big to send i shut the new message window but mail had saved a draft so i thought ill delete this as well. Now the activity icon by my name in mail is constantly spinning and i have a NEW icon in mail 'on my mac' and in this is a folder called 'recovered messages' and it keeps recovering this huge email i didn't send!
Is there anyway to sort this out, My email is with sky so i can still log in to sky.com to check my mail but i want mail back working.

Please help!!

Geoff

24" intel imac 2.66 ghz 4GB ram running 10.6.5

igeoff · igeoff #2 (**permalink**)

11-16-2010, 08:45 AM

I've found that I can get rid of it be deleting a hidden directory at:

~/Library/Mail/IMAP-<username>@domain.tld@imap.domain.tld/.OfflineCache

then deleting the 'Recovered Messages' mail folder in Mail.app

Cheers

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igeoff #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Oct 01, 2007 Location: Kent Posts: 70 Mac Specs: 2009 24" 2.66ghz 4GB ram 640GB HD, Powermac G4, Powerbook G3.	11-16-2010, 08:13 AM Hi, Last night i went to send an email with lots of photos so i attached them all (80mb) then knowing this was far too big to send i shut the new message window but mail had saved a draft so i thought ill delete this as well. Now the activity icon by my name in mail is constantly spinning and i have a NEW icon in mail 'on my mac' and in this is a folder called 'recovered messages' and it keeps recovering this huge email i didn't send! Is there anyway to sort this out, My email is with sky so i can still log in to sky.com to check my mail but i want mail back working. Please help!! Geoff 24" intel imac 2.66 ghz 4GB ram running 10.6.5
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igeoff #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Oct 01, 2007 Location: Kent Posts: 70 Mac Specs: 2009 24" 2.66ghz 4GB ram 640GB HD, Powermac G4, Powerbook G3.	11-16-2010, 08:45 AM I've found that I can get rid of it be deleting a hidden directory at: ~/Library/Mail/IMAP-<username>@domain.tld@imap.domain.tld/.OfflineCache then deleting the 'Recovered Messages' mail folder in Mail.app Cheers
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