

Rule out any Corrupt User Accounts The simplest way to tackle this is by logging out of your user id and trying a different user id on your MacBook. But other times, just selecting the faulty message will cause a crash, so you need to take measures to fix that. If your crashing or problematic app happens to be an Apple built app such as Mail or Safari, you may want to explore some of these additional steps. I’ve found that one can delete recent messages one by one, sometimes, and this fixes the problem. I suspect what happens is, a malformed email message is received, and Mail.app hangs on processing that. I’ve found that deleting Mail.app’s “envelope” index seems to alleviate crashing or hanging.
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How to Fix a Hung or Crashed Mail.app Screenshot: OS X Lion Mail Import Screenshot: OS X Lion Mail Import Backgroundīesides the strange bugs that seem to have plagued Mail.app on Apple OS X from time to time over the last several generations of OS X, and, the matter of Gmail’s non-standard IMAP implementation, I’ve found something that seems to work for me, when Mail.app starts showing the spinner, indicating a hang or crash. Open a terminal in the mcpppp folder and run cmake build build. Set the build directory to the same, but add /build at the end. All of a sudden Mail will just crash and I get that.

I believe it started once I switched to High Sierra, yet I have another computer at my work space which is older and can only go to El Capitan and its happening there, too. Well, I found a fix that works for me anyway, and you might try it. After downloading cmake and the source code, open cmake-gui and set the source directory to the location of mcpppp source. Hi all, My Mail has been crashing consistently for a few months now.

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Have you been frustrated by Mac OS X Mail.app crashing or hanging? This happens to me from time to time, even though I keep OS X updated to the latest version.
