HT1277 mail application degrading in performance

My mail application recently became painfully slow when performing simple tasts such as typing, scrolling, and opening and closing windows. It's only the mail app that's performing this way. I'm on os x 10.8.4. I ran disc utility, but it found no problems. Any helpful suggestions?

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Of course, it's up to you to coordinate access to the Folder so that different
threads don't confuse each other.

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Could you please share with us the test file @ "[email protected]" so that we can reproduce the problem at our end? Please be assured that your test file would solely be used for reproducing the issue and won't be shared elsewhere.
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Hello,
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Thanks for your assistance.
I found the logs and while there is a mail.log there is no mailaccess.log file.
There is a mailaccess.log.0.gz which I decompressed and I also decompressed the mailacess.log.1.gz.
The mailaccess.log.1 file contains entries from July 10th through July 11th.
The mailaccess.log.0 file contains entries from August 14th through August 15th (today). Seems like there was a long period that did not get archived correctly.
Here is a subset of what was in the mail.log from this morning:
Aug 15 07:04:03 www postfix/pipe[24378]: 5B2201493AC: to=<[email protected]>, relay=cyrus, delay=1001, status=bounced (Command time limit exceeded: "/usr/bin/cyrus/bin/deliver")
Aug 15 07:04:03 www postfix/pipe[24376]: 5B2201493AC: to=<[email protected]>, relay=cyrus, delay=1001, status=bounced (Command time limit exceeded: "/usr/bin/cyrus/bin/deliver")
Aug 15 07:04:03 www postfix/cleanup[10663]: 86BD71493BA: message-id=<[email protected]>
Aug 15 07:04:03 www postfix/qmgr[25517]: 86BD71493BA: from=, size=19952, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Aug 15 07:04:04 www postfix/smtp[10668]: 86BD71493BA: to=<sentto-12433195-1540-1187185326-mrbroome=avmi.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com> , relay=rtn7.grp.scd.yahoo.com[66.218.66.214], delay=1, status=sent (250 ok 1187186644 qp 73498)
Aug 15 07:06:16 www postfix/pipe[26600]: 8D50C1493AF: to=<[email protected]>, relay=cyrus, delay=1002, status=bounced (Command time limit exceeded: "/usr/bin/cyrus/bin/deliver")
Aug 15 07:06:16 www postfix/pipe[26602]: 8D50C1493AF: to=<[email protected]>, relay=cyrus, delay=1002, status=bounced (Command time limit exceeded: "/usr/bin/cyrus/bin/deliver")
Aug 15 07:06:16 www postfix/cleanup[12865]: 56B5E1493BC: message-id=<[email protected]>
Aug 15 07:06:16 www postfix/qmgr[25517]: 56B5E1493BC: from=, size=51949, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Aug 15 07:06:22 www postfix/smtp[12866]: 56B5E1493BC: to=<[email protected]>, relay=mailer.versiontracker.com[66.179.48.93], delay=6, status=sent (250 2.0.0 l7FE6L807756 Message accepted for delivery)
Aug 15 07:30:50 www postfix/smtpd[7082]: unable to get certificate from '/etc/postfix/server.pem'
Aug 15 07:30:50 www postfix/smtpd[7082]: 7082:error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory:bss_file.c:278:fopen('/etc/postfix/server.pem','r'):
Aug 15 07:30:50 www postfix/smtpd[7082]: 7082:error:20074002:BIO routines:FILE_CTRL:system lib:bss_file.c:280:
Aug 15 07:30:50 www postfix/smtpd[7082]: 7082:error:140DC002:SSL routines:SSLCTX_use_certificate_chainfile:system lib:ssl_rsa.c:760:
Aug 15 07:30:50 www postfix/smtpd[7082]: TLS engine: cannot load RSA cert/key data
Aug 15 07:30:50 www postfix/smtpd[7082]: connect from valhalla.mailpure.com[66.109.52.210]
Aug 15 07:30:51 www postfix/smtpd[7082]: 183AA1493D0: client=valhalla.mailpure.com[66.109.52.210]
Aug 15 07:30:51 www postfix/cleanup[7088]: 183AA1493D0: message-id=<[email protected]>
Aug 15 07:30:52 www postfix/qmgr[25517]: 183AA1493D0: from=<[email protected]>, size=26283, nrcpt=2 (queue active)
Aug 15 07:30:52 www postfix/smtpd[7082]: disconnect from valhalla.mailpure.com[66.109.52.210]
Aug 15 07:47:32 www postfix/pipe[7105]: 183AA1493D0: to=<[email protected]>, relay=cyrus, delay=1001, status=bounced (Command time limit exceeded: "/usr/bin/cyrus/bin/deliver")
Aug 15 07:47:32 www postfix/pipe[7109]: 183AA1493D0: to=<[email protected]>, relay=cyrus, delay=1001, status=bounced (Command time limit exceeded: "/usr/bin/cyrus/bin/deliver")
Aug 15 07:47:32 www postfix/cleanup[22267]: CD81D1493F0: message-id=<[email protected]>
Aug 15 07:47:32 www postfix/qmgr[25517]: CD81D1493F0: from=, size=28115, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Aug 15 07:47:37 www postfix/smtp[22271]: CD81D1493F0: to=<[email protected]>, relay=cvm39.vetmed.wsu.edu[134.121.130.6], delay=5, status=sent (250 2.6.0 <[email protected]> Queued mail for delivery)
The following is copied from the mailaccess.log.0 file from yesterday when the trouble started:
Aug 14 21:43:56 www master[269]: exiting on SIGTERM/SIGINT
Aug 14 21:43:56 www deliver[24981]: backend_connect(): couldn't read initial greeting: (null)
Aug 14 21:43:56 www master[25420]: process started
Aug 14 21:48:55 www deliver[25478]: connect(/var/imap/socket/lmtp) failed: Connection refused
Aug 14 21:50:22 www master[25519]: process started
Aug 14 22:07:03 www deliver[25632]: connect(/var/imap/socket/lmtp) failed: Connection refused
Aug 14 22:40:22 www deliver[25829]: connect(/var/imap/socket/lmtp) failed: Connection refused
Aug 15 06:23:50 www ctl_cyrusdb[25520]: DBERROR db4: PANIC: Too many open files
Aug 15 06:23:50 www ctl_cyrusdb[25520]: DBERROR: critical database situation
Aug 14 23:23:50 www master[25519]: process 25520 exited, status 75
Aug 14 23:23:50 www master[25519]: ready for work
Aug 14 23:23:50 www ctl_cyrusdb[26081]: DBERROR db4: fatal region error detected; run recovery
Aug 14 23:23:50 www ctl_cyrusdb[26081]: DBERROR: dbenv->open '/var/imap/db' failed: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
Aug 14 23:23:50 www ctl_cyrusdb[26081]: DBERROR: init() on berkeley
Aug 14 23:23:50 www ctl_cyrusdb[26081]: checkpointing cyrus databases
Aug 14 23:23:50 www ctl_cyrusdb[26081]: DBERROR db4: txn_checkpoint interface requires an environment configured for the transaction subsystem
Aug 14 23:23:50 www ctl_cyrusdb[26081]: DBERROR: couldn't checkpoint: Invalid argument
Aug 14 23:23:50 www ctl_cyrusdb[26081]: DBERROR: sync /var/imap/db: cyrusdb error
Aug 14 23:23:50 www ctl_cyrusdb[26081]: DBERROR db4: DBENV->logarchive interface requires an environment configured for the logging subsystem
Aug 14 23:23:50 www ctl_cyrusdb[26081]: DBERROR: error listing log files: Invalid argument
Aug 14 23:23:50 www ctl_cyrusdb[26081]: DBERROR: archive /var/imap/db: cyrusdb error
Aug 14 23:23:50 www ctl_cyrusdb[26081]: DBERROR db4: txn_checkpoint interface requires an environment configured for the transaction subsystem
Aug 14 23:23:50 www ctl_cyrusdb[26081]: DBERROR: couldn't checkpoint: Invalid argument
Aug 14 23:23:50 www ctl_cyrusdb[26081]: DBERROR: sync /var/imap/db: cyrusdb error
Aug 14 23:23:50 www ctl_cyrusdb[26081]: DBERROR db4: DBENV->logarchive interface requires an environment configured for the logging subsystem
Aug 14 23:23:50 www ctl_cyrusdb[26081]: DBERROR: error listing log files: Invalid argument
Aug 14 23:23:50 www ctl_cyrusdb[26081]: DBERROR: archive /var/imap/db: cyrusdb error
Aug 14 23:23:50 www ctl_cyrusdb[26081]: DBERROR db4: txn_checkpoint interface requires an environment configured for the transaction subsystem
Aug 14 23:23:50 www ctl_cyrusdb[26081]: DBERROR: couldn't checkpoint: Invalid argument
Aug 14 23:23:50 www ctl_cyrusdb[26081]: DBERROR: sync /var/imap/db: cyrusdb error
Aug 14 23:23:50 www ctl_cyrusdb[26081]: DBERROR db4: DBENV->logarchive interface requires an environment configured for the logging subsystem
Aug 14 23:23:50 www ctl_cyrusdb[26081]: DBERROR: error listing log files: Invalid argument
Aug 14 23:23:50 www ctl_cyrusdb[26081]: DBERROR: archive /var/imap/db: cyrusdb error
Aug 14 23:23:50 www ctl_cyrusdb[26081]: done checkpointing cyrus databases
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Thanks again for your assistance.
Mike

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