[X4U] Mail.app problems

[Richard H Stoddard]

On Jan 20, 2008, at 6:50 AM, Stroller wrote:

> I know you've had other suggestions which seem to have worked, but  
> for anyone else in the future with such mail problems, I advise  
> simply deleting "~/Library/Mail/Envelope Index" in the first instance.
>
> I prefer this to any "pixie-dust" utility, because you know exactly  
> what is going on. The index is rebuilt the next time Mail is started  
> - it may take a while, but Mail tells you it's doing so - and it's a  
> perfectly safe step to take.
>
> Mail's Envelope Index in 10.4 and 10.5 are both "SQLite database  
> (version 3)", but I guess it's quite conceivable that changes have  
> been made to the schema within this file format, and anyway, this  
> file has been known for some time under 10.4 to become messy with  
> time. IIRC there a reports of a repaired or fresh Envelope Index  
> being reduced to 3meg, from over 100meg (or in that order, at least).

Interesting - I have seven versions of it - envelope index, index-1,  
index-2, etc. , along with envelope index-1-journal, etc. (but no  
envelope index-journal). Safe to delete all of the index files?