[mixin visuals]

for some reason now Mail App is buggin out. its not checkin mail when it should. i have to shut down mail then restart it and then click get mail.

i can only retreive mail once and then have to restart mail.

any ideas on what to do? (besides wait for panther this month)

[Macpilot]

I have issues with Mail too. Asking for passwords, unable to send mail, etc. It has failed to identify most of the recent junk as junk.

I sure hope they clear this up in Panther. For $129 they better!

Sometimes I think of switching back to Entourage for this reason, but then I think of the great integration on Mail with Address Book, iCal, and .mac.

I would say trash the com.apple.mail.plist file first and see if that works?

[PubGuy]

There is something else you can try (my mail has been working fine, so I don't know if this will help).

Mail has a built-in feature under the Mailbox menu called "Rebuild Mailbox". If you have more than one email account, click the disclosure triangle on your Inbox and single-click onto any mailbox. Goto the Mailbox--> Rebuild Mailbox and rebuild each of your mailboxes.

If you have saved items, they are also separate mailboxes and the rebuild works on those as well.

You may want to give this a try. With over 7 million OS X users, you can bet there are millions of people using mail without problem. A few months back I switched from Entourage to mail/address/ical/isync for the integrated features. I found it is actually LESS keystroke to do the same function in mail as in Entourage...and mail's junk mail filter is superior to manually writing rules in Entourage.

So, in conjuntion with trashing the preferences, definately try using the Rebuild Mailbox function. Good luck!

[NeXTLoop]

I've been having more and more problems with Mail. First I started getting the "Writing changes to disk" bug which would bring my entire iBook to a grinding halt until Mail was done. After upgrading to a 17" PB, the increased power seems to be negating that bug... for now.

But I still have problems with Mail timing out when checking my accounts. I have 16 or so, but it seems like every few checks, at least one account times out. Eudora has no such problems. And recently, 9 out of 10 junk mails are getting past Mail's junk filters. With Eudora, 9 out of 10 get caught by its filters.