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Fix random Mail.app crashes Apps
If you have been experiencing crashes in Mail.app when you try to mark mails as junkmail, you should first delete all junk mails, then try switching your Junk Mail settings to "Leave it in my Inbox" - aka training mode. Afterwards you can switch the settings back to automatic and the crashes should hopefully be gone for a while.

If you experience other strange crashes while browsing your inbox, you should go to each inbox (the ones you get for each added POP3/IMAP account), rebuild and then go back to the combined inbox. That should take care of the crashes.
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Fix random Mail.app crashes
Authored by: raider on Feb 23, '04 11:50:39AM

This "trick" doesn't work for me. I have narrowed the crashes down, however, to: the "junk" mail that has no sender or subject. Those blank emails 100% of the time (for me) crash mail.app when marked as junk.

I just backup my NSMAP2 file regularly, and when I crash - replace it with the old one...

I also ALWAYS send the crash info to Apple - so hopefully they get a lot of them and fix this "new feature" that Panther delivered....



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Fix random Mail.app crashes-blanks
Authored by: MtnBiker on Feb 23, '04 12:07:48PM

Same problem here and I couldn't figure out how to make Mail Rules pick out blank subject/message emails.

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Fix random Mail.app crashes
Authored by: roodavis on Mar 03, '04 03:59:07PM
I had constant mail.app crashes after updating to Panther. So bad that I just turned junk filtering off. Then one day I was reading a thread on macfixit and thought I would try their suggestion of resetting the junk mail filter. No joy. But then I went into ~/Library/Mail and deleted the junk.mbox from each of my email accounts. It's been up and running for five days without a crash.
Rick Davis
AppleHelp: thePrimaxGroup

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