<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Have you tried using something like Vacuum Mail to clean the index files?<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><a href="http://homepage.mac.com/lscott/Software/VacuumMail.dmg">http://homepage.mac.com/lscott/Software/VacuumMail.dmg</a></div><div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Keeps my Mail nice and fast with lots of accounts, folders and mail!</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>cjc</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>On 20/01/2008, at 10:26 AM, Richard H Stoddard wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">On Jan 19, 2008, at 6:21 PM, Steve Self wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Archive and install the OS. Takes just a while and almost always works.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote>I may give that a try, but I just read that Apple is due (in principle) to release 10.5.2 soon, which will presumably have bug fixes for Mail.app among other things. SInce that could be out within the next couple of weeks, I'm probably going to wait rather than try major surgery. In the meantime, I'll just not close Mail and let the system run, since as long as it's running it seems to be okay.<br>_______________________________________________<br>X4U mailing list<br><a href="mailto:X4U@listserver.themacintoshguy.com">X4U@listserver.themacintoshguy.com</a><br>http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u<br><br>Seven Cent Deals - Great legacy stuff Great Legacy Pricehttp://www.drbott.com/prod/db.lasso?cat=Seven+Cent+Deal<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>