I've tried both of the fixes, moving the plist and letting Mail rebuild it and then editing plist with the junk mail lines as above, and neither has worked for me.

It just hangs. I went off and left it for 4 hours, and it was still hung.

I did have huge amounts of mail in my boxes and folders. But still..... ?

Help!
tia,
lohroffc

The suggestion to edit the plist file using the Property List Editor.app to remove all of the JunkMail entries and to replace them with only the two listed in the prior post worked like a charm for me too! This is a far faster and easier change than any of the others I have seen posted on the various message boards.

Thank you PeteWarden for help with Mail Leopard Upgrade Problem
 

Your solution for the plist problem in mail was a life-saver. For the google record, for those with no programming skills but a lot of email accounts such as myself, the repair is simple. Just download the program Plist Pro and search for those Junkmail entries mentioned in this thread, and change the parameters accordingly. (You might consider paying the Plist Pro people something if you really benefit and don't end up buying the program after the trial.) Also, be sure to make a copy of the apple.com.mail.plist file before messing with it. For non-programmers, for the record, that means- just highlight the file, located in your user/library/preferences folder, and press apple-D. That will create a new file with the word "copy" in it. That way, if there's a problem with your handiwork, at least you'll have an original file to show your local apple-guru. Thanks again to Pete and this forum!

In my case, I simply removed the entry "JunkMailBehaviorHasBeenConfigured" from com.apple.mail.plist

Mail then created the other 2 entries mentioned.

I had success by removing "JunkMailBehaviorHasBeenConfigured" from com.apple.mail.plist

Everything working as normal, all emails and accounts came back and no probs quitting the app.

Thanks to those who went before me for your help! Especially strangervt.

Red

Thanks, worked like a charm! In fact I took it one step further, I didn't even have to delete the "JunkMailBehaviorHasBeenConfigured" entry, I just changed its boolean value from yes to no. Came right up, no problems.

You guys really saved my bacon, SO was NOT pleased that email didn't come up ;-)

Anybody submitted any kind of bug report to Apple?

Rob

Removed com.apple.mail.plist but old mail still missing
 

Deleting that little bugger did the trick to get new mail, but the hundred saved messages are nowhere to be found, except in the library. How do I get them back? Below is the last console, if that helps. :confused:

Mac OS X Version 10.4.11 (Build 8S2167)
2010-01-30 13:23:24 -0500
2010-01-30 13:23:24.926 SystemUIServer[85] lang is:en
TomTom HOME runner started.
CHOMERun::NotifyChanged
CHOMERun::NotifyChanged
Jan 30 13:23:26 elaine-lacourses-computer mDNSResponder: Adding browse domain local.
Jan 30 13:23:27 elaine-lacourses-computer ntpdate[112]: no servers can be used, exiting
mount_smbfs: spnego blob2principal error 1
CHOMERun::NotifyChanged
2010-01-30 13:25:58.605 Lexmark All In One Center[228] CFLog (0):
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
(UNKNOWN)
The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be corrected in the plist.
Debugger() was called!
Jan 30 15:04:06 elaine-lacourses-computer authexec: executing /Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD/Install Mac OS X.app/Contents/Resources/minibless
Jan 30 15:04:08 elaine-lacourses-computer authexec: executing /usr/sbin/nvram
TomTom HOME runner stopped.