Mail: "ENTER THIS TEXT"

CaribbeanOS-X

CaribbeanOS-X

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I'm trying to fix Mail.app.

Recently, a window pops up asking me to "Enter this text". I can press cancel or continue and either one crashes Mail.app.

Anyone experienced this?

Specs are in my signature!
 
That sounds odd. Can you take a screenshot of it? (cover the personal parts of the mail if needed) I don't think I've seen that kind of message yet.
 
Giaguara:

Here is a screen shot... "Happy Birthday" i thought i was a joke at first or an alert with a faulty date. For a client i use ThunderBird but was comparing the PGP capabilities with both programs, so far TB is winning with its Enigmail Ad-on. Both can get the job done but i prefer to go all apple in this case.

So you can see the "Cancel" "Set-Prefs" "Continue"

I am unable to change the happy birthday text... no buttons actually do anything... once pressed mail just crashes.

Fixed permissions, deleted .plist, reconfigured manually and with ISP scripts all pop accounts etc... same thing every time. "HAPPY BIRTHDAY"

I've added the crash report as a .txt file

Best
 

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Can you look at the source of that message? (View > source..)
Remove pieces like your email address, and just add the code. My guess is it's some odd java...
 
Found it... there was a rule with a script trying to run. How that got there i have no clue... either way i removed it and all is well. Put it back in and it crashes, mail bug? I think so!

Thanks for the time.
 

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Giaguara said:
Can you look at the source of that message? (View > source..)
Remove pieces like your email address, and just add the code. My guess is it's some odd java...
Click to expand...

It wasn't a msg. The program would open ask me for my IMAP password and then that would pop up and mail would shut down!

On to the next issue...

have a good day Giaguara.
 
Wow, that was an odd error indeed :)
After you'd have inserted the IMAP password, it would have some messages, and as that rule is #1, it would be evaluated first. So if from contains anything, run that script. I guess something from it looping calls for the crash, but nevertheless... unless someone finds a good use for using a script that way probably it won't be fixed. (Could be fun as setting on someone else's Mac for revenge etc though). Is there any other script or rule that could get this same result?
 
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