[X4U] Mail.app capacities

[Rick Smykla]

Zane,

Try rebuilding your Mail database. You can do this from the command  
line with the following command:

/usr/bin/sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/Envelope\ Index vacuum

Make sure Mail is not running when you do this. You should notice a  
difference -- it worked wonders on my machine with over 100,000  
messages and dozens of mailboxes and mailbox folders.

You can find more about why this works here:
<http://www.hawkwings.net/2007/03/03/scripts-to-automate-the-mailapp- 
envelope-speed-trick/>

RIck


On Apr 19, 2007, at 2:17 AM, Zane H. Healy wrote:

> I'm currently running on 10.3.9, though I'm not sure how much of an  
> effect that will have on this.  Just how capable of handling mail  
> is Mail.app?  I use Eudora Pro for my day to day email.  However I  
> have a couple of administrative accounts that I use Mail.app to  
> keep an eye on.  With only 12,596 messages in the one box, and 2727  
> in the other it is practically paralyzed.  It simply doesn't seem  
> to be able to handle the load.  It takes a minute or more to load  
> the larger box, and it will pop up the spinning beach ball when I  
> click on some of the messages.  This is on a G5 2x2 with 3.5GB RAM,  
> so it's not some puny machine.
>
> Zane