How to resolve Slow Email Opening on macOS Monterey 12.4

I'm not buying the "obsolete hardware" excuse, as I'm having this issue on a 2021 Apple silicon Mac (MBP16). I did upgrade to 12.5 when it came out, and have had one occurrence of the issue since then.

No way I'm going to switch to Windows at this point but I might consider trying Thunderbird if Mail.app isn't fixed in MacOS Ventura. Supposedly they're going to improve the search capability in Mail so I'll wait and see what that's like. The current search is very limited, and I hate how Mail.app scatters attachments in a million different random and weirdly named folders. Eudora used to keep everything into a single attachments folder.

Absolutely a Mojave problem. I’m running a company and I can’t believe how impactful this is - negatively. Six email accounts and now I have to use web brothers for each one separately, unless I wish to wait two minutes each time I open an email.

I have the same problem. It is really annoying indeed. Sometimes it takes so much time to show the content that I in the meantime open my work email, gmail etc in the browser instead, while waiting for the very slow mail program to load the content.

This is the case on both my stationary work computer and my laptop (both relatively new machines).

Sorry to say I have to join this long list of Email/Monterey 12.4+5 users with a problem!

After several attempts to get answers, Apple are still not forthcoming with a solution or any explanation other than"buy a new computer" Yeah right.

I have got to the stage now where some sort of legal intervention is being seriously considered by me and several others I know with the same problem.

That said, is it worth it? Remember the battery throttling incident several years ago? Apple managed to drag that out for years before being forced to settle a class action...

Come on Apple get it sorted out now!

Also consider notifying the NY Times or Wall St Journal for an article. Three are so many people that this affects but more importantly Apple has built a reputation for great products and if this came out it would damage that. Count me in on helping. This is inexcusable.

I just found a new problem with mail. Now if finally the content does appear, I can not 'grab' attachment with the mouse anymore to drag them on my desktop. They disappear and I have to go to the little 'download' pulldown menu to select and save the documents. I'm starting to become very weary of this. How can stuff like that break all of a sudden?

Braceman1, that very interesting and I am glad that fixed your problem. I don't use avast and I wonder if there is anything that we can learn here and it will be interesting to see if Michael can fix the problem when he removes avast. The only thing I have been doing is when I go to my emails, I open them all at once and then do some other work and them come back to them when they are open, still rather cumbersome.

I note this morning that "Monterey 12.6" is coming.

I really hope this will fix the problems with slow emails. Also having read through lots of info about Monterey , it seems it messed up other things for a lot of people.

Come on Apple - get it together!