[icibaqu]

I am really pissed off so any help anyone can give will be appreciated.

I have 10.4.8 tiger on both a G4 ibook and G5 iMac that I use .mac to sync. I haven't been able to really read any emails for the past few days, only see that I had 25, 35, 40 unread messages in the .mac webmail interface in safari.

So today i logged into the Ibook and opened mail to pull down all those emails, only it did the opposite and just ERASED all the unread emails. Emails that I had clicked and previewed in the last few days were pulled down and synced. Those that I had not read were simply erased.

What.....the.....7&@% !?!?!?!

Can anyone help resolve this issue because having this issue makes using Mail basically impossible.

[icibaqu]

i ran a "test" and it appears that mail will only pull down messages that have already been "read" from teh webmail interface. any suggestions?


gabriel

[JKT]

Check your preferences in Mail to see what your options are in this pane:



Note the download all messages and their attachments choice. Is yours set to something else?

Also, check the other settings in the other tabs to make sure you are downloading/uploading what you want to download/upload.

[icibaqu]

my account settings mimics your screenshot.

i'll check it more as the next couple days go on. But I've noticed now that it just puts everything in my SENT box. I had a sent mail rule for my gmail that I also just stripped down to the bare minimum. But I really don't see how that could have been it.

Any further suggestions.

[Big Mac]

I'd check it from another IMAP client, and if things work there you know it's a good chance there's a problem with your local copy of Mail. I'm on .Mac, and aside from the classic "old mail appearing as new mail" bug, I haven't had any problems lately.