[X Newbies] Mail constantly indexing

[Kevin Stevens]

On Saturday, Apr 26, 2003, at 08:50 US/Pacific, J Patrick Draine wrote:

> Friends, I need a bit of help. All my system software has the latest 
> updates. Mail is getting hard to deal with because it seems to be 
> indexing very very frequently.

What do you mean by "indexing"?

>  So when I want to delete a message and go to the next one to read 
> it's too busy indexing to respond. Not all the time, but very 
> frequently.

I've never seen this be anything but instantaneous.

> Now I do have many undeleted messages (over 3100, read but not thrown 
> away).

I just looked at a mailbox with (checking) 3030 messages.  Sorting 
upwards by date was immediate.  Sorting downwards by date was 
immediate.  Sorting by status (1197 messages are unread) was immediate. 
  Sorting by subject took less than one second.

> Is that the problem?

Apparently not.

> Or are there certain settings which I can tweak to decrease the 
> frequency of Mail's indexing?

Again, what do you mean by "indexing"?  Please provide a stepwise 
procedure by which someone can replicate your problem.  Machine specs 
are also relevant at this point.  I'm using a 17" PowerBook with remote 
IMAP mailboxes.

KeS