Mail "gurus", have you seen this?

[Xairbusdriver]

I noticed a strange and unfamiliar icon on my Menu Bar this morning. Then I noticed it was animated! DropBox does that when it syncs, TimeMachine used to. Having not a fearful bone in my body, I heartily clicked the icon! OK, I did put on some safety glasses! I may be stupid, but I'm very safety conscious! However, nothing much happened. Here is a  screen grabs of what I was seeing:

What this doesn't show is the 'animation'.
The gear was rotating, clockwise, continuously.

Mail was running. Activity Monitor had a process called com.apple.MailServiceAgent only using any cpu cycles occasionally.

I Quit Mail (which also shut down SpamSieve), but that had no effect on the mysterious 'gear'; it just kept on ticking (silently, apparently well oiled). I can't remember if it was still showing in AM, but I'm pretty sure it was. I gave up searching for anything to do with 'spinning|gear|in|Menu|Bar|etc.'. Although there was a mention in a SS forum back in 2011 or so, but it had a different cause.

Another clue was that the icon could not be removed (command-drag) from the Menu Bar, which is a sure sign of an OS installed icon.

My solution was a Restart in Safe Mode, and then a normal Restart. The icon never appeared in either of those situations.

Any (useful) suggestion's\opinion's|idea's/comments (except grammatical ones from Jon)?

[Paddy]

QUOTE(Xairbusdriver @ Jul 10 2015, 09:27 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I noticed a strange and unfamiliar icon on my Menu Bar this morning. Then I noticed it was animated! DropBox does that when it syncs, TimeMachine used to. Having not a fearful bone in my body, I heartily clicked the icon! OK, I did put on some safety glasses! I may be stupid, but I'm very safety conscious! However, nothing much happened. Here is a  screen grabs of what I was seeing:

What this doesn't show is the 'animation'.
The gear was rotating, clockwise, continuously.

Mail was running. Activity Monitor had a process called com.apple.MailServiceAgent only using any cpu cycles occasionally.

I Quit Mail (which also shut down SpamSieve), but that had no effect on the mysterious 'gear'; it just kept on ticking (silently, apparently well oiled). I can't remember if it was still showing in AM, but I'm pretty sure it was. I gave up searching for anything to do with 'spinning|gear|in|Menu|Bar|etc.'. Although there was a mention in a SS forum back in 2011 or so, but it had a different cause.

Another clue was that the icon could not be removed (command-drag) from the Menu Bar, which is a sure sign of an OS installed icon.

My solution was a Restart in Safe Mode, and then a normal Restart. The icon never appeared in either of those situations.

Any (useful) suggestion's\opinion's|idea's/comments (except grammatical ones from Jon)?

Haven't seen this myself, but apparently others have: http://prod.lists.apple.com/archives/apple...b/msg00055.html

[Xairbusdriver]

I knew I could count on the resident ISG* to provide a link I had not found! Not sure I want to bother with a Bug Report, at least until the next time it happens and after looking for the suggested name in Activity Monitor.

Thanks, I'll now return to my boring activities...




*ISG: Interweb Search Guru