My mail app is using significant energy. As of last week, the fans on my macbook have been running louder and more often than before and I checked the battery settings, and it shows Mail as using significant energy, which it did not do before. It also has a very high CPU percentage, which is unusual as well. Any suggestions? I am on macOS Catalina version10.15.6
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Yes I have. I have also tried disabling each account and then re-enabling them and nothing changed.
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To compound your misfortune, you also have pieces of symantec stuff :-(
Alright, where should I go from here? The Mail app is still sucking away my battery, which is the issue that I want to fix.
The first thing to do is uninstall avast. It offers zero protection, conflicts with built-in security and degrades performance.
I would not be surprised if that alone would solve your problems, but I will look at the rest of the report and let you know.
To add to what Luis mentioned you'll need to uninstall all norton/symantic software according to the developer's instructions. You can check to see if you've removed all of the supporting files by downloading and running Find Any File to search for any files with the application's name and the developer's name in the file name. For example for the Norton/symantec software you'd do the following searches:
1 - Name contains norton
2 - Name contains symantec
3 - Name starts with symi
4 - Name starts with symx
Any files that are found can be dragged from the search results window to the Desktop or Trash bin in the Dock for deletion.
FAF can search areas that Spotlight can't like invisible folders, system folders and packages.
Did you try quitting and restarting Mail? Restarting your mac?
Any recent change that may have caused this?
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