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  Delete Outbox in Apple Mail Paul Goodman <goodmanp@comcast.net> - 2016-10-03 12:06 -0400
    Re: Delete Outbox in Apple Mail Michael Vilain <mev94303y@yahoo.com> - 2016-10-03 09:12 -0700
      Re: Delete Outbox in Apple Mail Paul Goodman <goodmanp@comcast.net> - 2016-10-03 12:18 -0400
        Re: Delete Outbox in Apple Mail Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-10-03 16:50 +0000
        Re: Delete Outbox in Apple Mail "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-10-03 14:24 -0500
          Re: Delete Outbox in Apple Mail Paul Goodman <goodmanp@comcast.net> - 2016-10-03 22:29 -0400
            Re: Delete Outbox in Apple Mail Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2016-10-03 19:50 -0700
    Re: Delete Outbox in Apple Mail Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-10-03 16:17 +0000
      Re: Delete Outbox in Apple Mail Paul Goodman <goodmanp@comcast.net> - 2016-10-03 22:38 -0400

#95101 — Delete Outbox in Apple Mail

With the update to Sierra, I tried to use mail drop again to see if it 
cleared up the previous problems I was having with it.  I am still 
having problems; when trying to send the mail with a large attachment, 
it made my system unresponsive and I had to force quit and reboot.  
Mail runs fine now, but that one email is sitting in my outbox and any 
attempts to delete it cause my system to hang.  Is there anyway to 
delete the contents of the outbox outside of the mail program??

-- 
Paul Goodman

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#95103

In article <2016100312065562261-goodmanp@comcast.net>,
 Paul Goodman <goodmanp@comcast.net> wrote:

> With the update to Sierra, I tried to use mail drop again to see if it 
> cleared up the previous problems I was having with it.  I am still 
> having problems; when trying to send the mail with a large attachment, 
> it made my system unresponsive and I had to force quit and reboot.  
> Mail runs fine now, but that one email is sitting in my outbox and any 
> attempts to delete it cause my system to hang.  Is there anyway to 
> delete the contents of the outbox outside of the mail program??

While I'm on 10.8.5, I've seen a similar problem with attachements 
totaling more than 5MB. Most mail systems are configured to bounce stuff 
larger than 5MB, so I use Dropbox or my web server and post a link.

To clear the problem, I delete the message and rebuild the mailbox.  If 
Apple removed the Rebuild option from Mail, then try going into 
~/Library/Mail and poking around with Terminal.

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#95105

On 2016-10-03 16:12:52 +0000, Michael Vilain said:

> In article <2016100312065562261-goodmanp@comcast.net>,
>  Paul Goodman <goodmanp@comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> With the update to Sierra, I tried to use mail drop again to see if it
>> cleared up the previous problems I was having with it.  I am still
>> having problems; when trying to send the mail with a large attachment,
>> it made my system unresponsive and I had to force quit and reboot.
>> Mail runs fine now, but that one email is sitting in my outbox and any
>> attempts to delete it cause my system to hang.  Is there anyway to
>> delete the contents of the outbox outside of the mail program??
> 
> While I'm on 10.8.5, I've seen a similar problem with attachements
> totaling more than 5MB. Most mail systems are configured to bounce stuff
> larger than 5MB, so I use Dropbox or my web server and post a link.
> 
> To clear the problem, I delete the message and rebuild the mailbox.  If
> Apple removed the Rebuild option from Mail, then try going into
> ~/Library/Mail and poking around with Terminal.

The problem is that I cannot delete the message.  As soon as I click on 
it, i get the spinning beach ball and have to force quit.  If I just it 
alone, everything works fine.

-- 
Paul Goodman

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#95110

On 2016-10-03, Paul Goodman <goodmanp@comcast.net> wrote:
> On 2016-10-03 16:12:52 +0000, Michael Vilain said:
>
>> In article <2016100312065562261-goodmanp@comcast.net>,
>>  Paul Goodman <goodmanp@comcast.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> With the update to Sierra, I tried to use mail drop again to see if it
>>> cleared up the previous problems I was having with it.  I am still
>>> having problems; when trying to send the mail with a large attachment,
>>> it made my system unresponsive and I had to force quit and reboot.
>>> Mail runs fine now, but that one email is sitting in my outbox and any
>>> attempts to delete it cause my system to hang.  Is there anyway to
>>> delete the contents of the outbox outside of the mail program??
>> 
>> While I'm on 10.8.5, I've seen a similar problem with attachements
>> totaling more than 5MB. Most mail systems are configured to bounce stuff
>> larger than 5MB, so I use Dropbox or my web server and post a link.
>> 
>> To clear the problem, I delete the message and rebuild the mailbox.  If
>> Apple removed the Rebuild option from Mail, then try going into
>> ~/Library/Mail and poking around with Terminal.
>
> The problem is that I cannot delete the message.  As soon as I click on 
> it, i get the spinning beach ball and have to force quit.  If I just it 
> alone, everything works fine.

Let the beach ball spin a while rather than force quitting it
immediately.

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JR

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#95125

On 10-03-2016 11:18, Paul Goodman wrote:
> The problem is that I cannot delete the message.  As soon as I click on
> it, i get the spinning beach ball and have to force quit.  If I just it
> alone, everything works fine.

Trying rebuild mailbox *before* trying to delete the message.

Or if the accunt is IMAP, delete the account and reinstall.

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#95211

On 2016-10-03 19:24:01 +0000, Happy.Hobo said:

> On 10-03-2016 11:18, Paul Goodman wrote:
>> The problem is that I cannot delete the message.  As soon as I click on
>> it, i get the spinning beach ball and have to force quit.  If I just it
>> alone, everything works fine.
> 
> Trying rebuild mailbox *before* trying to delete the message.
> 
> Or if the accunt is IMAP, delete the account and reinstall.

Hi, it is a IMAP Google account and I did try and delete it and 
reinstall.  It was still there...Ultimately, it doesn't matter; mail 
runs fine with it in the outbox.  It just bugs me that I can't get rid 
of it easily.

-- 
Paul Goodman

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#95214

On 2016-10-04 02:29:04 +0000, Paul Goodman <goodmanp@comcast.net> said:

> On 2016-10-03 19:24:01 +0000, Happy.Hobo said:
> 
>> On 10-03-2016 11:18, Paul Goodman wrote:
>>> The problem is that I cannot delete the message.  As soon as I click on
>>> it, i get the spinning beach ball and have to force quit.  If I just it
>>> alone, everything works fine.
>> 
>> Trying rebuild mailbox *before* trying to delete the message.
>> 
>> Or if the accunt is IMAP, delete the account and reinstall.
> 
> Hi, it is a IMAP Google account and I did try and delete it and 
> reinstall.  It was still there...Ultimately, it doesn't matter; mail 
> runs fine with it in the outbox.  It just bugs me that I can't get rid 
> of it easily.

G-mail makes it tough to delete anything. You might try archiving it 
and then delete from the Google archive.
-- 
Regards,

Savageduck

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#95104

Paul Goodman <goodmanp@comcast.net> wrote:
> With the update to Sierra, I tried to use mail drop again to see if it 
> cleared up the previous problems I was having with it.  I am still 
> having problems; when trying to send the mail with a large attachment, 
> it made my system unresponsive and I had to force quit and reboot.  
> Mail runs fine now, but that one email is sitting in my outbox and any 
> attempts to delete it cause my system to hang.  Is there anyway to 
> delete the contents of the outbox outside of the mail program??

I had a similar experience trying to use Mail Drop from a non-iCloud
account on one of my machines once. But letting it hang for long enough to
delete the message was all that was needed. If you don't have the patience
to let it do its thing, try deleting it at night before you go to bed and
let it "hang" while it processes the deletion.

-- 
E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter.
I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead.

JR

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#95213

On 2016-10-03 16:17:33 +0000, Jolly Roger said:

> Paul Goodman <goodmanp@comcast.net> wrote:
>> With the update to Sierra, I tried to use mail drop again to see if it
>> cleared up the previous problems I was having with it.  I am still
>> having problems; when trying to send the mail with a large attachment,
>> it made my system unresponsive and I had to force quit and reboot.
>> Mail runs fine now, but that one email is sitting in my outbox and any
>> attempts to delete it cause my system to hang.  Is there anyway to
>> delete the contents of the outbox outside of the mail program??
> 
> I had a similar experience trying to use Mail Drop from a non-iCloud
> account on one of my machines once. But letting it hang for long enough to
> delete the message was all that was needed. If you don't have the patience
> to let it do its thing, try deleting it at night before you go to bed and
> let it "hang" while it processes the deletion.

Thanks, that is a good idea and probably what I am going to do.  Mail 
runs fine with it sitting in the outbox, but for some reason it really 
bugs me that it is there.

-- 
Paul Goodman

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