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Q: Why is mail running so slow

Have the latest IMAC, running Mountain Lion, did migration from an almost identical mac, 2-years older, the mail program and filling out form boxes on web pages is a friggin nightmare, is aplle working on a solution? I see al ot of similar complaints.

Mac Pro, OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Aug 17, 2012 12:41 PM

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  • by ruftytufty,

    ruftytufty ruftytufty Oct 27, 2014 10:44 PM in response to AmadeusBiteTheApple
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    Oct 27, 2014 10:44 PM in response to AmadeusBiteTheApple

    I'm on 10.9.5, recently upgraded from 10.8.5(?), and Mail was extremely slow after the upgrade - minutes to display the contents of an email message. Rebuild and manual force of reindexing had no effect.

     

    I wasn't getting sandboxing errors from Mail, but deleting the Mail user plist fixed the performance problem. I didn't have a system Mail plist.

  • by Ulrich S. Kapp,

    Ulrich S. Kapp Ulrich S. Kapp Jul 15, 2015 9:13 AM in response to ccops
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    Jul 15, 2015 9:13 AM in response to ccops

    Maybe someone is interested in:

    I got a similar problem with Mail.app in Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite and a surprising solution.

    It took about up to 2 minutes to start Mail.app and display my messages in my 11 accounts. Too long, so i started with deleting/reorganizing the envelope index but with only less effect. It still took about 1 minute to get the Mail-Window, although the messages were now displayed instantly.

    Disappointed I quit Mail again and I saw the accounts window closing after the Mail.app main window and I thought: "Maybe that's the solution!"

    So I reopened Mail.app (2 minutes ;-) and opened the tucked away accounts window (It was always behind the main window of Mail.app for some 5 days, since I changed a setting!) and closed it properly.


    Now Mail.app opens instantly again!


    I hope this helps some other having the same strange problem.

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