[Jupeman]

I have used Mail.app for years now and not really had any problems. I'm now running Mail under Panther on a G5 2.0 and within the past week (I've had the G5 since September), Mail crashes whenever I try to "manipulate junk". If I see a message in my inbox that is spam and I tell Mail to label this as "junk", the app crashes. Similarly, if I see mail in my junk folder that is not junk and relabel it as not junk, the app crashes.

This is annoying! Any ideas what is wrong and how to fix it?

[MacGorilla]

Mine started this behavior too. I had to stop musing Mail.app because of it. Weird.

[Some Guy []]

have you tried trashing your mail prefs as well as the mail folder in ~/Library


-justin

[fortepianissimo]

Try to do a "Reset" in the Junk setting. Or you can just delete your Library/Mail/LSMMap2 file - Mail.app will generate a fresh one upon the next start.

[Nebagakid]

what version of Mac OS X are you using? 10.3.2?

[VValdo]

Originally posted by Jupeman:
I have used Mail.app for years now and not really had any problems. I'm now running Mail under Panther on a G5 2.0 and within the past week (I've had the G5 since September), Mail crashes whenever I try to "manipulate junk". If I see a message in my inbox that is spam and I tell Mail to label this as "junk", the app crashes. Similarly, if I see mail in my junk folder that is not junk and relabel it as not junk, the app crashes.

This is annoying! Any ideas what is wrong and how to fix it?

Are any of these mails completely blank? Ie, no subject, no sender, no message content?

I found a bug in 10.3.1's version of Mail where if a message were included that had no headers, marking it as junk would crash Mail. You have to just delete it manually. If a blank message like this is included with the spams you are trying to delete, it would crash it as well.

I don't know if this is fixed in the newest version of Mail, as I haven't received any blank emails yet...

W

[Jupeman]

I'm using 10.3.2. I might have a blank email, I will check and see if that fixes anything.

I've resisted resetting my junk preferences since I've been "teaching" the junk filter for years...

[SMacTech]

I started having this problem because I deleted the Junk Mailbox. I created a new one and the problem went away. I also reset my junk mail, which after I did, started working better.

[gunnar]

Posted this exact question about 2 weeks ago. Seems to be tied to the 10.3.1 update. The only solution I found was to reset the Junk database in Mail's prefs.