Getting slower and slower... Mail.app

hello,
my ipod touch (1st generation, 16 GB, a lot of free space, newest os) get getting slower and slower... f.e. in mail it takes up to 15/20 seconds to change the postbox or account (after deleting mails). I did restart the ipod, too.
Any idea, what I can do to get Mail faster?
Takk
Claus

hello,
With Mail closed, you could always test whether your sent mailbox is too large by copying it in Finder.
~/Library/Mail/YourEmailaccountName/Sent Messages.mbox
and pasting it to say, the Documents folder, then in Mail you could delete all of your sent messages and see if that makes a difference.
If you wanted the sent.mbox back you would import it from where you copied it to, via Mail > File, Import Mailboxes and select it. I don't know if this is the problem though, but you could at least exclude it as a possiblity.

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