This technote describes what to do when a particular error message—“Message has not been downloaded from the server, take this account online to view.”—appears on your screen due to corruption in Mail’s internal SQLite database.

It’s a shocker, Pierre argues:

I find this particular tech note to be particularly interesting, because there are many aspects of it that are very wrong and indicative of a rather user-hostile attitude at Apple these days. In this post I’d like to highlight some of what I think are the worst aspects of this tech note.

And he does. Have a read .

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