Os X Mail Blank Messages 2017
Sometimes I get these email messages (typically acknowledgment emails from e-tailers or billing notices) which either look completely blank or show up as gobbledygook in Mail.app's viewer. The message size tells me that there's text there, and viewing the raw source of the message usually reveals the text. One example is the 'we have received your donation' acknowledgment from Doctors Without Borders, which looks completely blank in Mail.app, even though the message size is 2.9KB.
It turns out that these messages are usually of 'Content-Type: multipart/related' or 'multipart/alternative'. The idea is that the same content will be sent out in multiple versions (such as text/plain and text/html) so that your email client can display the preferred format. Unfortunately, I think many of the sites that send out such messages do not have the software configured properly, so that the plain text alternative, which is usually listed as the first alternative, is either blank or corrupted.
You can view the content of these messages by selecting View -> Message -> Next Alternative. This will cycle through the other versions of the message, and (usually) these at least one of the other versions will be readable.
It turns out that these messages are usually of 'Content-Type: multipart/related' or 'multipart/alternative'. The idea is that the same content will be sent out in multiple versions (such as text/plain and text/html) so that your email client can display the preferred format. Unfortunately, I think many of the sites that send out such messages do not have the software configured properly, so that the plain text alternative, which is usually listed as the first alternative, is either blank or corrupted.
You can view the content of these messages by selecting View -> Message -> Next Alternative. This will cycle through the other versions of the message, and (usually) these at least one of the other versions will be readable.
Os X Mail Blank Messages 2017 Wishes
- After upgrading from Sierra to High Sierra on MBP late 2011 with Crucial SSD with APFS, Mac Mail has a visual bug when displaying email message that are included in any Conversation view. They Just show black. See attached image. My MacBook Pro has 2 graphics cards, one in-built and another.
- Just type 10 to read email message # 10. After viewing a message the user can delete by pressing d. To reply press r. How to delete root user’s mailbox/inbox file in Linux or Unix. Simply type the following command at shell prompt to delete all root mail: /var/spool/mail/root Verify it with the following command or cat command or ls command.
- Change Mailbox Behaviors preferences in Mail on Mac. Use Mailbox Behaviors preferences in Mail to change where draft, sent, junk, deleted, and archived messages for an email account are stored. To change these preferences in the Mail app on your Mac, choose Mail Preferences, click Accounts, then click Mailbox Behaviors. Open Mail for me.
Select the Inbox or affected mailbox. Select Mail.app Mailbox (menu) Rebuild Rebuilding the mailbox will cause Mail.app to read all the messages again from the server. Rebuilding often fixes problems and restores missing or malformed messages.