Apple Mail keeps crashing frequently after RAM problem
Solution 1:
Since you had a faulty RAM, the first target of corruption is the whole filesystem. It is a good point to have eliminated this possibility of huge trouble.
If your problem does only appears within Mail
this could mean that one of the files Mail
had to write back was corrupted (in RAM).
To confirm this hypothesis:
make a backup
-
quit
Mail
and make a local backup of your Mail library (the following are shell commands to type withinTerminal
):cd ~/Library mv Mail Mail.backup
-
start
Mail
, create you a minimal account configuration and send yourself an E-mailIf
Mail
doesn't crash, the problem stands within one of your Mail library fileIf
Mail
still crashes, report it. -
quit
Mail
and put back in place the library you backed up at step 2:cd ~/Library rm -rf Mail mv Mail.backup Mail
If step 3 confirms that the problem stands within your Mail library, and if your mailboxes aren't too big, you could then make a rebuild of them:
- launch Mail
-
select
Mailbox > Rebuild
-
be patient, don't corrupt its rebuilding task, open the activity window:
Window > Activity