[wynn]

Hi list,

I can't get rid of the spinning beach ball in Mail. I'm running 10.2.4 on a tibook 1ghz, 512 ram. I've tried force quitting Mail (which works), but when I restart the ball shows up again. Tried restarting, same thing. Tried macjanitor, same result. Ran terminal and did a top -u and see Mail at the top of my list working the cpu at 90%.

I'm a mac newbie, so any help would be appreciated. Should I throw out the preferences? Are there prefs in X?

Thanks much,

Wynn

[ae77]

It's Mail problem. Happened to me too. Just force quit. (Right click on its icon in the dock.)

[michaelb]

How long have you given it before interrupting? When you first start using it and have brought in a lot of mail, it can spend a lot of time indexing.

I certainly remember a lot of beach balls and unfriendly multitasking citizen behavior when I started using it.

But now, on my 640 MB iBook, Mail works like a dream and, as I do user support, the ability to type in a keyword and instantly have all relevant emails listed is a godsend.

[wynn]

Thanks for the replies. I tried force quitting, but when I restarted, I had the same problem.

I've been using Mail for about 3 months now.

The problem had to do with Mail not being able to decode a spam email. I got around the problem by not showing the message preview and just deleted it.

All is well again. Thank you.