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Re: Delete Outbox in Apple Mail

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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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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

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