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For additional steps you can take if your Yahoo! Account can't sync with Mail for Windows 10, see I can't sync my Yahoo! Account with Mail for Windows 10. If you have a Japanese Yahoo! Email account you will need to do the following: You'll need to add your Yahoo! Account as an IMAP account.
If your Apple Mail doesn't seem to be searchable and/or has become so slow it seems to hang your Mac -- or even displays incorrect email content, then it's time you attacked the problem: it's time to rebuild and reindex your Mailbox.
Aaargh!!!
This isn't a trivial problem:
One of the major changes in Mac Lion is the default integration of major email services. Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL Mail, Hotmail, and other major webmail providers have built-in functionality, as they are streamlined for OS X 10.7. Open Mail, then choose Mailbox New Mailbox from the menu bar. In the dialog that appears, choose the location for the Mailbox. Choose your email service (like iCloud) to access your Mailbox on your other devices, such as an iPhone signed into the same email account. Choose On My Mac to access your Mailbox only on your Mac. Manual setup of Mail/Notes on Mac OS X. The instructions and screenshots in this setup guide are for Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan).Previous versions of OS X are very similar, but may require more details to be entered manually. Turn it off, then fix your settings which Mac mail is likely to have fucked up thoroughly and voila, things will work. In my case Mac mail all of a sudden was of the opinion that my accounts did not need any authentication, or that authentication was based on certificate rather than password.
Mac users depend on Apple Mail for day-to-day email use, but as those messages come in and go out your Mailboxes will become bloated. When they do, Mail's performance will suffer and you'll find that even something as simple as downloading new messages takes an age.
Before we begin
- Delete messages inside your Deleted Items and Spam folders
- Delete messages you no longer need
- Update to the latest version of Mail
Now you've done that, we may be able to improve things using these two tips:
Step 1: Rebuild
Rebuilding a Mailbox in Mail sound daunting but it really isn't. Launch Mail, select one of your mailboxes and click on the Mailbox menu. At the bottom of the pane choose the Rebuild option. If you have a large mailbox, you can expect the process to take a few hours.
You must repeat this step for each one of your Mailboxes.
While the process takes place, you may experience system performance lag, as it can consume a lot of system resources and memory.
Another caveat, if you use IMAP or Exchange with any of the accounts, the process will redownload every message from the server, so you'll use a lot of bandwidth.
Now that you've completed these steps, work with Mail a little longer. If you are still having issues, or Mail fails to launch, you should try a manual reindex.
Step 2: Reindex
Manual reindexing of Mail messages is the only way to go if the application has become so unresponsive it barely works at all, search is not functioning correctly or the app won't launch.
Mail will automatically attempt to reindex your messages if it detects problems with the mailboxes, but sometimes a manual reindex is the best option. If you are still having problems with Mail after following step one, try manual reindexing.
Quit Mail if it’s open.
To get to your home Library folder, hold down the Option key, then in the Finder choose Go > Library.
In ~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData, delete any file that begins with “Envelope Index,” such as Envelope Index or Envelope Index-shm. (Before you actually delete the files, it makes sense to copy them to a folder on your desktop.)
Launch Mail and the app will build new Envelope Index files -- this can take a long time if there are numerous messages to go through.
If everything seems to be working correctly, you can now delete the copies of the 'Envelope Index' files from your desktop.
In most cases, these two tips should solve most Mail problems -- I hope they help resolve yours.
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