10.4.2 was doing the same thing here over the summer. We had strange login
anomolies and mail issues. It seemed to be an issue with the networked home
directories on our X Serve Raid. We ended up going back to 10.3.9 for
everything and dealing until the bugs are worked out.
Luckily for me the Tiger Netboot server is working phenomenally.
Thank god we had to experiment over the summer when they were building our
new server room.
Best of luck
-Justin Redden
Technology Support Engineer
Bancroft School
On 9/8/05 4:07 PM, "Meg Faddick" <email@hidden> wrote:
> Mail has really freaked out. Yes, that's a technical term.
>
> 150-plus users, new 10.4.2 image on the clients, 10.4.2 XServes --
> all new installs. All was fine until two days ago, when Mail started
> exhibiting oddness, then it has spread to most of the admin staff
> users by today.
>
> Off-site host. Email server is fine (IMAP/Webmail showing all mail
> coming in, can send mail out via webmail). Seems to affect network
> homes only, local homes not having problems. All of the users' mail
> accounts were created from scratch in Tiger, and mailboxes were
> imported from the Panther version.
>
> Problems:
> - Mail won't send, but no indication of why -- no "sending..."
> progress indicator on the Sent Mail box, no messages in the Sent
> Mail. Connection to SMTP server is fine. It appears to connect to the
> SMTP server, but then nothing happens in the Mail app.
> - email already downloaded and had been fine at one time, now
> suddenly showing "this message hasn't been downloaded" in the body.
> - rebuilding the mailbox database only results in multiple copies of
> the same email, all of them with the error "this message hasn't been
> downloaded."
> - clicking on an email header in the list might show a different
> email in the body
> - create new message, save as draft, the Draft box shows one message
> in it, click on the Drafts box and the message disappears
> - Mail indicates in the Activity window that it's downloading mail,
> but no mail shows up in the Inbox. Restarting Mail might make it show
> up, but all the messages are now unread.
> - deleted old account files, created a new account from scratch, Mail
> says it's downloading 211 messages but none of them show up in the
> InBox or the /Library/Mail folder
>
> Things tried:
> -- deleting old keychain and related .plist files, recreated keychain
> -- rebuilding mailbox database (only resulted in multiple copies of
> each message)
> -- reimaging the computer
> -- deleted Adobe fonts from the image (causing problems in Office,
> what the heck)
> -- deleted ~/Library/Mail and ~/Library/Preferences/
> com.apple.mail.plist, created new account
> -- created a whole new home folder
> -- Norton AntiVirus 10 scans on server, just for fun
>
> Anyone else seeing this? Any ideas?
>
> Thanks.
>
> ---------
> Meg Faddick
> Directory of Technology
> Foothills Academy
> 4725 Miller St.
> Wheat Ridge, CO 80033
> 303-431-0920 x1023
> http://www.foothills-academy.org
> email@hidden
>
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