Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Mail.app suddenly crashing on open

A bizarre, inexplicable problem hit me this morning. I suddenly had no Mail.app. Everything appeared fine, and I even managed to answer one email. The rest of my emails gave me some message about needing to be downloaded from the server (something I have never seen before). I did some digging and found this awesome trick to use when encountering similar Mail.app problems.

Basically, find:

~/Library/Mail/Envelope Index

Rename it to:

~/Library/Mail/Envelope Index.bak

Restart Mail and let it reload your messages. All was fine after that!


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