Extremely slow message import after having deleted Envelope Index

Hi,
I had some problems with garbled email messages et cetera, so I deleted the "Envelope Index"-file from ~/Library/Mail (as described on many sites).
I reopened mail, and, like expected, it asked me to import my Messages.
When I do this, at first everything goes fine, but at message 1451 it hangs, (I have about 10000 messages in total) and the "Remaining time" keeps going up.
I waited for about an hour, and Mail was still hanging on this one message.
Any ideas how to fix this?

This is my first time at forum, guys, so hopefully my story will help.
I have LR 5.3 , Canon 5D M2, Sundisk 16gb card and 2009 MacBook. LR4.4 was fast to import pictures, but 5.3 turned to be as slow as some of you had described. What happened next is a just unexpected coincidence. Usually I plug card reader into mac and open LR. This time as soon as I plugged CF card into mac computer would shut down (and not for the first time). I tried on Windows machine - same result. So I thought I lost all pictures for good. Then I reinserted card into the camera and plugged it into the mac. Canon transfer utility oped up and all pictures (89 total) were saved in less then a minute (.CR2).
At LR5 I indicated folder where pictures were saved and reimported them into LR as DNG files. Surpassingly transfer and conversion took about a minute, that is as fast as it use to be using LR4.
That's all. I wished it could be better help, but I thought this "accident" may help someone to pinpoint problem with slow transfer into LR5 from card reader.
p.s. forgot to mention that during import into LR5 some developers setting were applied, which, as I understand, will slows import.

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