Mail mboxes showing up empty

[Dan Lowe]

On Oct 5, 2006, at 9:04 AM, Kevin Broderick wrote:

> I've seen it on more than one occasion; usually, it seems related  
> to a connection getting "stuck", whereby any additional tasks I  
> tell Mail to do will end up in the Activity Monitor queued behind a  
> fetch task that shows active...and doesn't seem to ever complete.   
> My suspicion is that there's a timing issue whereby a network  
> connectivity problem at exactly the right moment will leave Mail  
> waiting indefinitely for a remote connection to provide some data.
>
> When this happens (as it did last night, actually--Mail was stuck  
> when I came into the office this morning), I usually can't even do  
> a normal Quit on Mail--I have to Force Quit.  Once I restart,  
> things seem to be hunky-dory for some amount of time, usually long  
> enough that I don't consider this a tremendous problem (although it  
> is a major annoyance).

I had trouble like this for a while, and I was starting to look at  
other mail clients as a result. But I eventually figured out that it  
was actually Quicksilver hanging (this also affected iChat  
sometimes). So now whenever Mail or iChat act weird, I check out  
Quicksilver, and if it's not responding I kill and restart it, and  
everything goes back to normal.

  -dan

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