Comments on: Lock up Leopard Mail in three easy steps

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:23:52 +0000

God Bless you both. You saved me a ton of wasted time reinstalling the OS from the disk. Phew!

By: fivecentnickel.com

fivecentnickel.com — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:50:43 +0000

Thanks for post this. Unbelievable that they wouldn’t catch it before releasing it — that’s gotta be the single most common configuration out there, and they *must* do at least a little bug testing behind the scenes. This has been driving me nuts. At least I know it’s not just me. But here we are in late August… If they’ve been aware of this since April 8th, why hasn’t it been fixed? Or am I just behind on my updates?

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:51:20 +0000

Wow, I’ve been plagued by that problem with both dropping the attachment on the icon and when I select the attachment file with Quicksilver and tell it to compose an email. Spinning Beachball of Death each time. ugh!

And I just happen to have plain txt with signatures.

I really hope Apple / Mac support fix this problem.

By: alessio

alessio — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:42:00 +0000

Thanks Tim for reposting info about Attaché, the new version for Leopard works perfectly – maybe Apple should check the author’s code. ;-)

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:12:48 +0000

Ah! I don’t use this feature but the I have suffered Mail lock up when trying to send a file via Mail when selecting file in Finder and choosing Finder/Services/Mail/Send File.

I have Plain Text and Signatures but when I changed Preference to Rich Text it cures the problem. I have only used it occasionally and always assumed I must have done something wrong!

By: alessio

alessio — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:21:07 +0000

I used the feature quite a lot, however recently I have moved to an Applescript called ‘Attaché’ which puts more information in the body of the message like the size of the attachment. I use it by dragging and dropping on the Dock icon as well. Funnily enough, attaché works but Mail erases some of the extra information that the script is supposed to add in the body of the message – you see it contained in the message and then erased when the attachment icon is added.

By: Tim Gaden

Tim Gaden — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:02:08 +0000

I guess usage patterns vary. It’s rare for me to start an email by wanting to attach something, that more often happens “in mid-flight”, either by dragging into the email or using the ⇧⌘A keyboard shortcut.

Martin (the original digger) seemed to do it more.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:40:41 +0000

Do people normally drag stuff onto their Mail icon? I do that with many other apps, but I’ve never done it once with Mail.

By: Partners in Grime

Partners in Grime — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:20:37 +0000

Not a problem with rich text. :)

By: alessio

alessio — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 16:19:02 +0000

Yes, it happened to me as well. I have ‘Report’ed the crash to Apple, let’s see…