Turn Of Mail Logging Debugging - El Capitan

From the Mail menu bar, select

Window ▹ Connection Doctor

In the window that opens, uncheck the box marked

Log Connection Activity

Delete the Exchange account in the Internet Accounts preference pane, then recreate it with the same settings. The messages will remain on the server and should be re-downloaded automatically, if necessary.

I have the same problem, with a massively growing EWSBodyFetch file. I have tried deleting and then recreating my Exchange account, as suggested, and also deleting the EWSBodyFetch file. However, a new version just reappears and continues to increase in size – 7gb today alone.

Log Connection Activity is unchecked.

Any clues how I can prevent this from happening?

Hello i have exactly the same problems.... it's really frustrating, that a MacBook Pro with 16gb and a 512gb ssd become to be useless. I hope that Apple take care of this problem quickly. This kind of problems aren't in Apple style... i hope Tim can hear it.

Seems to be the same problem I have: <https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7284697?answerId=29122660022#29122660022>

Funny thing, even after disabling all Exchange accounts, Mail keeps eating up my SSD and gives it back only after quitting/killing Mail...

I did this on 2 different machines, it does not work for me. Mail is constantly eating up harddisk space. Up to 50 GB per day. I left my computer running this night and it was frozen this morning due to no disk space left. Only solution so far is deleting all files in library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Logs/Mail a couple of times each day!

I really hoped mail would be more stable in El Capitan than in Yosemite where it froze several times a day.

Hello AminSharaf,

the same thing happened to me last saturday nigh,

I left the mac on connected my home network to

backup and in the sunday morning i found it with no space left,

and all the app frozen. I had to reboot it and for some reason i lost

the desktop background picture... It's crazy, also the search text in mail

don't return all the expected results (i tried to rebuild with no result)

same thing happen to spotlight... i really hope someone is taking care of those issues

Interesting side effect of this bug is that apparently Mail tries to zip the log files in memory once a day and will eat up lots of lots of RAM while doing that.

I just created an automator script that runs twice a day to delete the EWSBodyFetch.log file. Ugly workaround but should keep my system stable for now.

No big surprise. I would predict, they will not fix this issue at all. Apple never fixed the issue with mail freezing when using Exchange in Yosemite. They do fix what annoys the masses and puts revenue on risk. Users using Exchange are a minority and using something evil outside of the Apple universe. Shame on us!. Support once told me, I can not use iCloud and Exchange together, I should switch to iCloud completely... ********, but that is their thinking.

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Sorry, but with each version of iOS and OS X I am getting more and more annoyed. There are so many bugs and flaws that never get fixed and each version they focus on shiny new features that nobody really needs, that Google and Microsoft meanwhile do a lot better and charge less for and that make the experience more and more confusing.

Quick example? Apple is hiding the print feature in THEIR OWN iOS apps behind 3 DIFFERENT icons in 3 different places! Congratulations, Ive!

Seriously annoyed.

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good point.

On the other hand they did know about these issues from the public beta program... and releasing an OS X version that will make your Mac freeze due to a lack of disk space just because you pack GB of log files in memory(!) is ... well at least not very considerate.

Does the setting "move junk mail to junk folder" (not sure if it is worded that way, as my system is german) work for you?

For me it does not. It just marks mails as junk but leaves it in the inbox.

Maybe they have a general issue with the mail settings ...

This is what is happening to me. The EWSBodyFetch.log file just keeps getting bigger and bigger

https://youtu.be/P0ZhjFBvoBE

I also just started having this happen 7 gigs EWS file is new