[X4U] Can't delete a mail message

Stroller MacMonster at myrealbox.com
Sat Feb 5 13:30:30 PST 2005


On Feb 5, 2005, at 4:42 pm, Crandon David wrote:
> I'm using 10.3.6 and Mail.app.
>
> Yesterday I sent a whole bunch of individual emails to my mother. The 
> emails were photos sent thru iPhoto 4's email button. Each one was 
> about 500kB.
>
> When sending these photo's, many got returned to me as undeliverable 
> because "The user(s) account is temporarily over quota." ... However, 
> two to the emails returned to me I can't seem to delete. When I hit 
> the delete button, the headers for them in the viewer window get 
> greyed out, but the emails stay in the folder. They don't appear in 
> the Trash folder in Mail.
>
> Furthermore, the Delete button know becomes an Undelete button.
> If I try to drag them to the trash folder I get an error message that 
> says "The destination mailbox does not exist".
>
> I can drag them to another mail folder, and it will transfer OK, but 
> the original still stays in the first folder.
> If I press the newly created Undelete key, the header becomes bold 
> again.
> Rebuilding the mailbox doesn't seem to help.
>
> Can anyone offer any suggestions?

Is it possible you're out of disk space? Could you try empying some 
trashes & letting us know if that has any effect?

Stroller.



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