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mail.app bogging down whole machine
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Join Date: Aug 2001
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this is slowly getting annoying. whenever i move mails to different folders, or delete one or more mails, it will eventually bring my whole machine to a halt (for about 30 seconds). the aqua interface locks up almost completely, i can move the mouse, but nothing will respond. does anybody else experience this? 
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"And Zapp Brannigan, your score qualifies you as assistant delivery boy, second class."
"Hmm. I guess I'll have to sleep my way to the top. Kif, wake me when I'm there."
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I just moved several thousand emails from one folder to another without any bogging down. I watched the cpu monitor and it went to 100% for just a moment.
I am running 10.2.4 on a 450 cube, hardly anything fast. I would suggest rebuilding your mailboxes.
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Originally posted by dr. zoidberg:
this is slowly getting annoying. whenever i move mails to different folders, or delete one or more mails, it will eventually bring my whole machine to a halt (for about 30 seconds). the aqua interface locks up almost completely, i can move the mouse, but nothing will respond. does anybody else experience this?
Moving messages between folders remotely on the server via IMAP can be quite laggy. Are you using POP or IMAP and what type of connection do you have?
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well, i only have pop-mailboxes... so iīm sure itīs not a connection problem. i have actually just rebuilt all my mailboxes... letīs see if that does help. anyway, thanks for the suggestions.
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"And Zapp Brannigan, your score qualifies you as assistant delivery boy, second class."
"Hmm. I guess I'll have to sleep my way to the top. Kif, wake me when I'm there."
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I used to have problems, but I reinstall mail and also upgraded to a G4 processor.
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well, it didnīt help. everytime when it does "saving changes to disk..." my whole damn machine goes on its knees. (talkin bout a tibook 867 here).
and i have just about 400 megs of email at the moment... so i donīt think that this would be too much to handle. annoying, annoying.... 
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"And Zapp Brannigan, your score qualifies you as assistant delivery boy, second class."
"Hmm. I guess I'll have to sleep my way to the top. Kif, wake me when I'm there."
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My mail app is very fast. Constantly running in the background, but I delete my emails as soon as I have read them unless they are important ones  .
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we don't have time to stop for gas
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Originally posted by dr. zoidberg:
well, it didnīt help. everytime when it does "saving changes to disk..." my whole damn machine goes on its knees. (talkin bout a tibook 867 here).
and i have just about 400 megs of email at the moment... so i donīt think that this would be too much to handle. annoying, annoying....
It may well be the 400 MB of mail then. I just checked and despite having 4 accounts, a large volume, archives, etc., I have only about 70MB.
Can you consider ditching some of that mail? If not, I'm told Eudora does a good job with very-large volumes. I'd also, just for comparison, try Gyazmail (cocoa client) or Entourage to see if you get better results...
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It could be the mail.app gone wrong - maybe run the current OS upgrade again through a standalone updater.
It also sounds like a Virtual Memory problem. Does the problem go away on restart - if so a memory leak could be happen with an app and using up all th free disk space.
Restart and run only Mail.app (Make sure that all other apps including MenuBar apps are not running). If a memory leak is occuring then the system will progressively get slugish.
Given the size of your Mail it could be that the App is using Virtual Memory a lot. If you have not much free disk space, the OS will rapidly run out of free disk space to page to and will have to start paging in and out data to work. This really hampers the system.
If you need to cull yor mail a bit you could put really old stuff in new mailboxes, then when Mail has been closed move those mailboxes (located in ..library/Mail/Mailboxes). This way you can add stuff back when you need them.
Be warned thou' , I haven't tried this and please have a responsible adult around! Also a Mailbox is a single file with all the mail in it appended together so you may want to limit the number of messages per mailbox.
Another thought , is that you may have a lot of attachments which can really increae the size of your mail library. You could save the attachments elsewhere and reduce the size of your mail significantly.
Good luck,
Neil
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