Mail box issues after Catalina 10.15.3 update.

My mail box is composing hundreds of empty emails once I open up the icon all over my screen. I have to keep it shut down

iMac 21.5", macOS 10.15

Posted on Feb 4, 2020 10:24 AM

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Old Toad

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Feb 4, 2020 12:06 PM in response to speedracer44

Boot into Safe Mode (Use Safe Mode to isoloate issues with your Mac and Playing Safe: what does Safe Mode do?) and check the emails. Reboot normally and check again.

NOTE: Safe Mode boot can take up to 10 minutes as it's doing some system cache cleaning, volume verifying and directory repairing.

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