Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
Mail is terribly slow now. Web page only partly works and often is come tell unresponsive. Mail app on iPhone won't download many attachments and emails incoming and outgoing are extremely delayed. Ironically, I have the most luck downloading attachments during the rare times when the web interface is working.
It's happening with my wife's stuff too. Anyone else having problems?
I am having the same problem, now May 2016. It's really appalling that Apple would let this performance persist. It is affection my iPhone - things deleted come back, presumably because the web service times out.
Here's a very boring video showing over 40 seconds to delete on email using the web interface.
A couple of options --
- try rebuilding the mailbox (if you haven't already) - Mail (Mountain Lion): Rebuild mailboxes
- reindex message - for El Capitan, try looking in V3 -- Rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac - Apple Support
- reindex message (option 2) - see post by Linc Davis -- Email messed up ever since upgrading to Yosemite. The mail icon remains on the toolbar and I can open if I click into full screen and read the emails. I cannot send any emails. This is a huge problem.
If those options don't work, you could try reaching out to Apple Support.
I have seen this ongoing problem continue to persist, and folks continue to complain about it, so my last suggestion would be to consider using another email provider.
Good luck!
Thank you. As noted in the other thread, the problem has been resolved somehow, in the middle of the night. As far as I can tell, nothing I did affected or caused the resolutions. Thank you for your time and comments.
Bill
Icloud mail slow or not working
