I have had bizarre “symptoms” with Mail over the past 2-3 days.
Sometimes it takes a few days to see a pattern and “theorize” over
it. I had written .mac tech support, because the problem was with
my .mac address. Very long story very short: what I think must have
happened is that an email was taking a very long time to download.
Email for my .mac email adress wouldn’t download to Mail’s inbox.
Tonight when I started playing with webmail (which I’ve never
accessed until tonight), the mail began finally to download into
Mail. Not only that, but my .mac address’s Mail inbox and my webmail
at that same address were mirroring each other, as I moved stuff
around between the trash, the inbox, or the draft file.
I was writing you guys a laboriously long post (trying to document
everything) hoping maybe you could help, when I realized that every
time I opened my email inbox for that email address, it always
highlighted this one email. When I deleted that one email,
everything else returned to normal.
However, it has brought up a concern. If I was doing this on a PC, I
would immediately and absolutely assume I had a virus or something.
But because I’m on a Mac, I thought I had a glitch. The downloading
email was a reply from Wikipedia support. It’s as if I was trying to
download a 1,000,000,000 teragigamegabyte file. Maybe Wikipedia was
sending me their 28 million pages or something. Other things that
didn’t make sense now do make sense if a VERY HUGE file was trying to
download.
When I check out my computer, I still have the amount of remaining
disk space available that I think I should have, so nothing of
significant size downloaded.
(1) Does this raise any concerns?
(2) Does .mac webmail always mirror Mail when both are open? Even
now, it’s still doing that.
Thanks,
Claire
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Oops. I meant to send this to the G4 list I’m on, really. I didn’t
mean to send it to this list. This has nothing to do with Freeway.
Sorry!
Claire
On Nov 20, 2007, at 10:29 PM, email@hidden wrote:
I have had bizarre “symptoms” with Mail over the past 2-3 days.
Sometimes it takes a few days to see a pattern and “theorize” over
it. I had written .mac tech support, because the problem was with
my .mac address. Very long story very short: what I think must have
happened is that an email was taking a very long time to download.
Email for my .mac email adress wouldn’t download to Mail’s inbox.
Tonight when I started playing with webmail (which I’ve never
accessed until tonight), the mail began finally to download into
Mail. Not only that, but my .mac address’s Mail inbox and my webmail
at that same address were mirroring each other, as I moved stuff
around between the trash, the inbox, or the draft file.
I was writing you guys a laboriously long post (trying to document
everything) hoping maybe you could help, when I realized that every
time I opened my email inbox for that email address, it always
highlighted this one email. When I deleted that one email,
everything else returned to normal.
However, it has brought up a concern. If I was doing this on a PC, I
would immediately and absolutely assume I had a virus or something.
But because I’m on a Mac, I thought I had a glitch. The downloading
email was a reply from Wikipedia support. It’s as if I was trying to
download a 1,000,000,000 teragigamegabyte file. Maybe Wikipedia was
sending me their 28 million pages or something. Other things that
didn’t make sense now do make sense if a VERY HUGE file was trying to
download.
When I check out my computer, I still have the amount of remaining
disk space available that I think I should have, so nothing of
significant size downloaded.
(1) Does this raise any concerns?
(2) Does .mac webmail always mirror Mail when both are open? Even
now, it’s still doing that.
Thanks,
Claire
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