You probably have JunkMatcher installed. I think it's a known problem. You can disable it by removing it from the ~/Library/Mail/Bundles folder. Andy On Jan 10, 2008, at 7:41 AM, Crandon David wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I've noticed that lately, whenever I mark a message as Junk, or Not > Junk, I get the spinning beachball for about a full minute. > > I've emptied the Junk mail folder, rebuilt the mailboxes, discarded > the...oh, I can't remember, but it was some plist file, and nothing > has helped. > > I have run Activity Monitor during the spinning, and have seen a > process called "python" that is using up over 90% of my CPU's power > during that time. > > Can anyone help? > > Thanks, > > David > >