Mail Takes a Long Time To Quit

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Mail Takes a Long Time To Quit

When I quit Mail, the main window disappears immediately, but the Menu Bar for the program, as well as the dock icon stay up for a long time afterwards.

I just timed it, and it took Mail 42 seconds from when I hit quit, for Mail's Menu bar and dock icon to actually disappear. The first time it happened, I thought I would have to force quit.

There are no other strange behaviors, but I know this is not normal.

Can anyone give me any advice as to how to "fix," this? Thanks.

008 MBP 2.4ghz 4GB Ram / 2008 MP 8-core 2.8ghz 14GB Ram, Mac OS X (10.5.3)

Posted on Jul 14, 2008 11:50 AM

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Answer 1

CFiore

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Aug 14, 2008 7:20 AM in response to richisgame

I've been having the same problem ever since switching to 10.5. The problem is only on my much more powerful Mac Pro and not my Mac Book. It's very annoying because if I want to shutdown, i need to force quit mail most of the time.

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Aug 24, 2008 3:41 PM in response to richisgame

I can't come up with a solution either, just adding another data point. My Mail.app takes up to 10-15 minutes to quit. I've got a very large collection of mail, and I get about 1000 new messages a day (mostly spam). I quit Mail once a week for my restart-then-backup ritual.

I really have no idea what it's doing during that time - for all I can see, it's not doing anything at all. Activity Monitor says it's using 0.0% CPU, and there's very little disk activity too.

I don't like to force quit things, especially generally well-behaved things like Mail.app, but sometimes my impatience wins out.

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Aug 25, 2008 7:29 AM in response to richisgame

In case you have an IMAP-account the app might sync with the mail server. Just open the window "activities" and quit the app to check if this could be the reason. IMAP support is still a bit sluggish...

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