More (or are they the same?) problems with Apple Mail

22 Sep 2020 23:21:42

Michael Corgan

On my ancient iMac, running El Capitan, Mail has been quitting several times a day, sometimes when I move to a different mail box or send an email, sometimes, less frequently, when I am not doing anything but reading or writing an email. This happens regardless of whether I am using my iCloud, Gmail or AUG Wessex accounts. All I have been able to find on line are suggestions that this behaviour could be caused by a "bad" email. At the moment the only solution I can envisage is to export all my mailboxes and then hope that the vital mailboxes (In, Sent, etc,) would be recreated so that I could try working with no old emails within the app.

On my wife's Macbook Air, running Catalina, emails that she deletes just keep reappearing. She has only a Gmail account so perhaps I could delete it for her and open a new email account, but would want to know that this would work before trying it!

Has anybody experienced these annoying symptoms, and hopefully found a cure?