Yosemite OS 10.10 Mail Memory Leak

Lots of people complaining about the same ... http://www.cultofmac.com/301031/os-x-yosemites-mail-app-mac-crashing-memory-hog/

I went back to the boring old Outlook 2011 while Apple decides to fix this crap.

My own work-around, since the memory use seems to grow relatively slowly, is to quit and restart Mail at least once a day. That has kept that problem at bay for now.

I've had some other weird things happen with Yosemite, but won't hijack the thread to discuss them.

doug

+1 I am experiencing the memory leak issue as well. This really should have been addressed already.

So, I've been following this thread since my original post back on Oct 21. In addition to the Mail.app memory leak issue, my experience with Yosemite was extremely "clunky" overall. The memory issue wasn't isolated to Mail.app (however, the plunging memory or skyrocketing Memory Pressure behavior was), I was running out of memory whether I had 2, 3 or NO applications open at all.

Last weekend I decided to do a Clean Install of Yosemite.

Everything went through successfully, and I've had no problems with Yosemite since (knock on wood.) In fact, I really enjoy this upgrade quite a bit now, and am looking forward to exploring all of the new capabilities.

For anyone who upgraded to Yosemite, and maybe hasn't done a clean install on their system in awhile (and has an afternoon or full day to dedicate to a clean install) I highly recommend it, and hopefully it solves your problem. I'm not going to post instructions for this as there is a plethora of sources online.

Good luck to everyone and hopefully I won't need to come back here for a long time.

Dear Etresoft, I prefer my option than spending hours and hours and weekends locked in front of my Mac trying to solve problems which Apple didn't bother to solve prior to releasing their glittering latest OS. All of you are easily brainwashed by Apple's successful marketing then end up trying to solve problems. Let the creators of the new OS solve the problems themselves and I stay cool and calm.

Dear Jonesology you are a very clever problem solver a common practise among computer technicians: they choose the easy way out: do a clean install! So according to you solving Yosemite's problems means doing a clean install. That's not the solution to Yosemite's problems, those problems are bugs which should have been solved in the first place prior to Yosemite's release. Next time I need a technican I give you a call.

FWIW, I received an email from Apple's "Developer Bug Reporting Team" requesting I run a sys diagnose if/when the problem arises again. Since I've disabled "Store draft messages on the server", I've not experienced the memory issue. However, in the interest of helping Apple identify and address the root cause, I've re-enabled this feature on my GoDaddy account. I'm posting this message just to let all know we may have Apple's attention on this issue.

Dear Big Talker,

What is with people like you in these communities?

Did I say that was "the solution" to this problem? No.

For your information, I have tried all the suggestions in this thread. I have never performed a clean install on this machine since I've owned it (2010) - not one time, my friend. There have been plenty of other bugs in the past I've either had to work out on my own, or just suck it up and wait for Apple to fix.

I merely suggested an option that has worked for me (and I clearly stated that it has worked "so far", I don't even know if it solved the problem.) If someone has similar hardware and is experiencing similar issues then maybe it's something they should consider.

Thank you so much for wasting your time with your asinine post bud.

CTM, that's awesome, I hope we officially do have Apple's attention - thank you for letting us know!

I have this problem and was using SpamSieve. I removed it completely from my system, but am still experiencing the problem. Glad it solved your problem, but no luck here. :-(

Yep, I have GoDaddy account.

same problem here.

macbook air 2013

wal073 wrote:

Dear Etresoft, I prefer my option than spending hours and hours and weekends locked in front of my Mac trying to solve problems which Apple didn't bother to solve prior to releasing their glittering latest OS. All of you are easily brainwashed by Apple's successful marketing then end up trying to solve problems. Let the creators of the new OS solve the problems themselves and I stay cool and calm.

I don't disagree with your sentiment, but I also don't have much expectation that Apple is going to fix it. Or, if they do, the fix may include lots of other changes you might not want or perhaps a brand new machine. I just want to have a stable system. I'm not going to spend hours on Apple's problems either. But I also wouldn't put up with a problem like this. I would just switch e-mail providers. There are real benefits to having your own domain name. In fact, I actually did switch from my own e-mail service to iCloud just for this reason. I'm not totally happy with iCloud. I admit that it was Apple Mail bugs that drove me to it. But with my own domain name, I can still switch providers anytime I want.

Just use another mail client app. I went back to the boring Outlook 2011 version. Its fine. The problem is in the native mail app that comes with Yosemite. A fix should come, and then you can simple enable the accounts and go back to business as usual.

This worked for me (Turning off, unchecking, "Save Drafts on Server")! Thanks, Sean!