mac e mail problem

[twobears]

For a while now my, admittedly ancient, mac has been doing strange things with my e mail. Sometimes it says I have new mail when I don't and at other times it dredges up old e mails and displays them as though they are new. I have tried looking for the answer as to why it is doing this but I can't find anything that helps. Are there any techie types on here who might be able to help please?

[Ekona]

What Mac is it, and what version of OSX is it running?

[twobears]

It's a 20-inch imac Mid 2007 so maybe it is 7 years old rather than 9.

 

OSX is version 10.9.4 (13E28)

Edited August 27, 2014 by twobears

[Mudman]

You can punch the serial number into the apple website and you can get full details

 

Not sure if you have other devices linked to your email account or Apple as that can sometimes cause a few odd things to happen

 

Try deleting the mailbox contents on all devices and see if that does the trick

 

There may be old accounts linked to the email as well so chck that and delete any not required

[twobears]

Thanks Mudman. I will try to do those things although I am not in the slightest bit 'technical' and Mr Twobears is abroad as usual so no help from him I wonder if it is something to do with linking my Kindle to the mac?

[-Bradders-]

Turn off cached email, worth a shot.

[twobears]

How do you turn off cached e mail please?

[-Bradders-]

no idea but we have similar issues on some of our mac devices, normally in outlook but has happened a few times on mac mail!

[twobears]

Er, I haven't the faintest idea how to do it then. Thanks anyway

[glrnet]

PM Doogyrev Annie

[twobears]

Ok thank you. I will

[Adrian@TORQEN]

Install Onyx - http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/11582/onyx and delete all Caches, including mail. Don't restart after each one, just restart it at the end, after last operation.

 

PM me if you need further help.

[twobears]

Thank you octet. I will click on link now and just hope I can understand what it tells me. I am a complete dunce I'm afraid