Comments on: Fixing Mail import crashes on Leopard

By: Jimhelsinger

Jimhelsinger — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 01:35:00 +0000

I am runnning snow leaopard and have the same problem. I don’t really know terminal. What should the script be in leopard. Do I have to change anything to be specific to my drive?

By: Angela Lucine

Angela Lucine — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 08:22:00 +0000

It is my pleasure to read this page,I look forward to reading more.

By: johann

johann — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:28:46 +0000

oh by the way.. just noticed that your script is for leopard. running snow leopard. i also noticed that the path may be wrong but im not sure (might be different for SL).

By: johann

johann — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:11:50 +0000

did a copy paste of your script on terminal but import still hangs. still couldnt recover mail and it keeps restarting and trying to import again to no avail.

any ideas?

By: Kim Burns

Kim Burns — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:28:56 +0000

Thank you!

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:29:15 +0000

@david_williams Though this probably isn’t the most productive place to post it, what is causing the crash you’re seeing? You never mentioned specifically what the problem is, so it’s hard to be much help.

By: David Williams

David Williams — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:20:57 +0000

I have tried applying the most recent fix from Apple, with no success.
The email still crashes.
This is a temporary fix—I think it works because it shortcuts an erroneous path from the launch bar Mail icon—but only temporarily. ( I have tried removing the launch bar E-mail Icon and replacing it with the icon from the Applications folder; but that did not work either).
1) Save any Pages document to the desktop
2) Right click on the document on the desktop
3) Left Click “Open with”
4) Scroll to the “Mail” icon and select it with a left click
5) When the email with the attachment has opened, close it down by clicking on the red close button at the top left.
6) Your email should now run
This provides some stability for a while before the next occurrence.
If anyone can fix this instability please post it here
Regards
David W
lwr@sentex.net

By: Andrew Vit

Andrew Vit — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:20:58 +0000

Thank you very much for this!

I was struggling to find a solution for this exact problem earlier today as I was trying to grep my 14k emlx files to locate the bad ones after a failed import…

I was aware of this problem because of a client who, until very recently, was using Entourage on Mac OS 9. My Mail.app would crash upon receiving one of her emails, and I was forced to retrieve and purge her message from my POP mailbox via webmail.

OS 9 being what it is, it couldn’t handle the long filename attachments that she received so it truncated them with an ellipsis (…) character somewhere in the middle. That’s likely what the ü character you see above was meant to represent.