Pat: It could be. Do you ever delete deleted mail in Mail? You might try defragging. Gary patdart wrote: > I'm running 10.2.8 on my 700 MHz G3 iBook and since updating to that, > I'm getting a lot of clicking and updating in Mail...and it's slow some > of the time. I've 'fixed permissions' but that didn't seem to make any > difference. Have any of you noted this? And, is it indicative of > anything known? As far as I can tell that's it's only symptom, but it's > a nuisance. I will confess I have a lot of mail as I am an email > packrat! Would that be a problem? > > Pat >