Mail causing freezing problems on MacBook

Hi all - lately, I have been having speed issues on my MacBook. Tried using Disk Utility, but still had issues. Finally, just reformatted my hard drive, then imported all my stuff through Time Machine. Everything looked great, performance and speed back to near perfect. However, the next day I opened mail and it slowed everything back up again. I am constantly getting the spinning color ball even when going to a simple website. When I shut Mail down, it takes forever to close and sometimes I have to do a Force Quit. Any suggestions??

Stop peeing and contact your ISP for their Outgoing Mail Server requirements along with the correct port to use.

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Hardware Information: ℹ️
    MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2008) (Technical Specifications)
    MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro5,1
    1 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2-core
    2 GB RAM Upgradeable
        BANK 0/DIMM0
            1 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok
        BANK 0/DIMM1
            1 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok
    Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported
    Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
    Battery Health: Normal - Cycle count 59
Video Information: ℹ️
    NVIDIA GeForce 9400M - VRAM: 256 MB
        Color LCD 1440 x 900
    NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT - VRAM: 256 MB
System Software: ℹ️
    OS X 10.10.2 (14C1514) - Time since boot: 0:13:37
Disk Information: ℹ️
    Hitachi HTS543225L9SA02 disk0 : (250.06 GB)
        EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
        Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / : 249.20 GB (168.91 GB free)
        Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
    HL-DT-ST DVDRW GS21N
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Linc Davis wrote:
Slow performance after installing Yosemite on an older Mac is often caused by inadequate memory. Although you can install the upgrade on a Mac with 2 GB of memory, experience has shown that at least 4 GB is needed for full performance.
Select About This Mac from the Apple menu. If you have less than 4 GB of memory, and your model has upgradable memory, install as much as it can take, or at least that much. Any reputable RAM vendor will have a web form in which you can select the Mac model and be directed to compatible parts.
Memory in the MacBook Air is not upgradable. If that's what you have, you should restore the previous system from a backup, or replace the machine. Ask if you need guidance.
The Etrecheck report clearly shows that SylvieRose has a Macbook Pro, not a Macbook Air and that there are only 2 GB RAM installed. The Etrecheck report can be very informative if one takes the time to examine it.
Ciao.

MacBook Pro 17" 2.16 Ghz - Ongoing Shut Down / Freezing Problems

After searching around the web for quite awhile and reading through as much as I can on here, I've finally run out of options and so thought I would post my experience / problem on here and see if anyone knows how to fix my problem.
My gear:
OS 10.6.7
MacBook Pro 17" 2.16 Ghz
Model Name:          MacBook Pro
Model Identifier:          MacBookPro1,2
Processor Name:          Intel Core Duo
Processor Speed:          2.16 GHz
Number Of Processors:          1
Total Number Of Cores:          2
L2 Cache:          2 MB
Memory:          2 GB
Bus Speed:          667 MHz
Boot ROM Version:          MBP12.0061.B03
SMC Version (system):          1.5f10
Video:
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RAM - 2 x 1Gb Chips
FUJITSU MHY2120BH:
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Model:          FUJITSU MHY2120BH
Revision:          0081000D
Serial Number:                  K439*****H4A
Native Command Queuing:          Yes
Queue Depth:          32
Removable Media:          No
Detachable Drive:          No
BSD Name:          disk0
Medium Type:          Rotational
Partition Map Type:          GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. status:          Verified
Volumes:
Capacity:          209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)
Writable:          Yes
BSD Name:          disk0s1
Hard Disk:
Capacity:          119.69 GB (119,690,149,888 bytes)
Available:          98.97 GB (98,967,773,184 bytes)
Writable:          Yes
File System:          Journaled HFS+
BSD Name:          disk0s2
Mount Point:          /
Problem:
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Other times I'll leave the computer on at night, wake up in the morning and it will either be off and as such, I just have to press the power button and it boots up again. Or the screen will be off, metal above the Function keys will be cooking, but the computer isn't responding, just a blank screen. I hold down the power button until it turns off and then reboot again.
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MacPro early 2008, 10 mb RAM, Apple OSX 10.7.3, CS5 already installed.
CS6 Beta was working fine until today.
Now when I open Bridge CS6 I get "Bridge encountered a problem and is unable to read the cache. Please try purging the central cache in Cache Preferences to correct the situation." I then try to purge the cache, but nothing happens and Bridge freezes.
Worse, I cannot use my keyboard at all or perform any mouse click actions if Bridge is the active window. I cannot close Bridge. What I can do is alt/tab to another window, and then Force Close Bridge.
I have tried restarting the MacPro but this does not solve the problem.
The problem started earlier today after I re-edited a nef which I had previously edited in ACR 6. I cancelled all the previous edits first.
Also, yesterday I installed Little Snitch, which I have now uninstalled.
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Hi all,
I have a January 2008 MacBook, with user-installed maximum RAM and 500GB drive. Just recently I have started to have the "machine hangs for 2 minutes and then works albeit in an unpredictable way for one minute and then repeats this cycle" problem.
I would say nine in ten boots of either my normal user or the root user results in random and painful sluggishness (often from the login prompt, which beachballs for a couple of minutes) and one in ten is ok for a few minutes.
Right now the only way this machine is usable is using the Safe boot option, holding down the shift key on boot.
I'm a geek and I've done pretty much everything I can think of to fix this problem short of a reinstall.
* top does not report unusual CPU usage. Even during freezes it reports less than 10% CPU in use. I conclude that the CPU chewing is therefore in the kernel.
* I've booted in normal and kextstat and booted in safe and kextstat and diffed the two and honestly removed any non-Apple stuff in my normal boot.
* I've removed ALL startup items, especially from root.
* Following advice on here I've removed ALL my Internet Plug-Ins.
* I've seen weird "kernel[0]:" blank syslog messages, which is surely a bug somewhere.
* I've repeatedly fixed permissions and checked the disk.
Booting normally as root or as my normal user sees this problem occur. Booting safe does not. I really am getting to the end of my tether with this. I don't hack the BSD kernel and don't know where my CPU is going where the usual userland tools cannot see.
My next step is to boot normal, ps wwaux, then boot safe and ps wwaux and analyse the two. I am struggling with where to go here.
The symptoms of this problem are exactly what I'd imagine you see if a hard drive is dying. When one process is in diskwait then everything else beachballs while the bus is locked for thirty seconds. Disk Utility, and Techtool do not report any problems.
It's probably worth mentioning that I am still having problems with the Airport drivers in this machine (from a vanilla install of SL, this machine STILL sometimes insists it cannot see some Wifi networks that everything else can). I am still seeing these symptoms whilst trying to diagnose the other problem, which makes things even more tricky. I can sometimes get the airport hardware to "see" my wifi network (that all three of my iPhones can see, along with both my PC laptops) by turning Airport off and on and removing and adding new locations.
I had the somewhat heretic thought today that the frustrating problems I've had with this, my third Apple Laptop, are infinitely worse than I've ever had with any - ahem - PC laptops I've owned, but maybe that's a matter of expectation management. When Apple control the vertical and the horizontal I don't expect them to ship machines which don't connect to Wifi, like this and my girlfriend's MacBook don't, and I don't expect to have a machine which spends 2 of every 3 minutes in deep sleep.
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_mdnsresponder 16 0.0 0.1 2473928 5588 ?? Ss 7:15PM 0:00.39 /usr/sbin/mDNSResponder -launchd
_usbmuxd 33 0.0 0.1 2485696 4244 ?? Ss 7:16PM 0:00.05 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MobileDevice.framework/Versions/A/Resources/u sbmuxd -launchd
_windowserver 61 1.2 0.6 2820408 24940 ?? Ss 7:16PM 0:03.43 /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/CoreGraphic s.framework/Resources/WindowServer -daemon
daemon 14 0.0 0.1 2456028 2636 ?? Ss 7:15PM 0:00.07 /usr/sbin/distnoted
root 1 0.0 0.0 2459192 1764 ?? Ss 7:08PM 0:00.50 /sbin/launchd
root 9 0.0 0.5 2475644 19384 ?? Ss 7:15PM 0:44.62 /usr/libexec/kextd
root 10 0.0 0.2 2485832 9196 ?? Rs 7:15PM 0:04.42 /usr/sbin/DirectoryService
root 11 0.0 0.0 2447056 1088 ?? Ss 7:15PM 0:00.07 /usr/sbin/notifyd
root 12 0.0 0.0 2459612 1392 ?? Ss 7:15PM 0:00.19 /usr/sbin/syslogd
root 13 0.0 0.2 2488468 6692 ?? Ss 7:15PM 0:01.02 /usr/libexec/configd
root 15 0.0 0.1 2462048 3692 ?? Ss 7:15PM 0:00.09 /usr/sbin/diskarbitrationd
root 24 0.0 0.1 2474308 5972 ?? Ss 7:16PM 0:00.17 /usr/sbin/securityd -i
root 30 0.0 0.2 2525004 7504 ?? Ss 7:16PM 0:00.14 /usr/sbin/cupsd -l
root 31 0.0 0.2 2479332 7120 ?? Ss 7:16PM 0:00.37 /usr/sbin/krb5kdc -n
root 37 0.0 0.2 2530332 8412 ?? Ss 7:16PM 0:00.11 /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/AppleVNCServer.bundle/Contents/Su pport/RFBRegisterMDNS
root 39 0.0 0.2 2494248 7768 ?? Ss 7:16PM 0:00.40 /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/Metadata.framework /Support/mds
root 40 0.0 0.5 2847644 20060 ?? Ss 7:16PM 0:00.63 /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow console
root 41 0.0 0.1 2455512 2540 ?? Ss 7:16PM 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/KernelEventAgent
root 43 0.0 0.2 2513468 7644 ?? Ss 7:16PM 0:00.41 /usr/libexec/hidd
root 44 0.0 0.1 2464920 3292 ?? Ss 7:16PM 0:00.04 /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CarbonC ore.framework/Versions/A/Support/fseventsd
root 46 0.0 0.1 2444732 2220 ?? Ss 7:16PM 0:00.03 /sbin/dynamic_pager -F /private/var/vm/swapfile
root 51 0.0 0.3 2565608 14584 ?? Ss 7:16PM 0:00.32 /usr/sbin/blued
root 52 0.0 0.1 2455416 2532 ?? Ss 7:16PM 0:00.01 autofsd
root 58 0.0 0.5 2493004 22524 ?? Ss 7:16PM 0:01.36 /System/Library/CoreServices/coreservicesd
root 84 0.0 0.0 2458664 1428 ?? Ss 7:23PM 0:00.05 /sbin/launchd
root 88 0.0 0.7 2832024 28624 ?? S 7:23PM 0:00.82 /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/MacOS/Dock
root 89 0.3 0.8 2888444 33892 ?? S 7:23PM 0:01.00 /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/MacOS/SystemUIServer
root 90 0.0 0.9 2930288 39260 ?? S 7:23PM 0:01.42 /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder
root 93 0.0 0.0 2444156 2096 ?? S 7:23PM 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/pboard
root 94 0.0 0.2 2507024 7028 ?? S 7:23PM 0:00.36 /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/ATS.framewo rk/Support/fontd
root 98 0.0 0.4 2829504 16392 ?? S 7:24PM 0:00.31 /usr/libexec/UserEventAgent -l Aqua
root 100 0.0 0.3 2813648 13392 ?? S 7:24PM 0:00.07 /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/AppleVNCServer.bundle/Contents/Ma cOS/AppleVNCServer
root 105 0.0 0.1 2491800 5128 ?? S 7:24PM 0:00.03 /System/Library/CoreServices/CCacheServer.app/Contents/MacOS/CCacheServer
Processes ONLY in safe mode (good boot) only:
root 113 0.0 0.4 3091844 16544 ?? S 7:24PM 0:00.20 /System/Library/Frameworks/QuickLook.framework/Resources/quicklookd.app/Content s/MacOS/quicklookd
root 125 0.0 0.5 2864156 21224 ?? S 7:24PM 0:00.27 /System/Library/CoreServices/NetAuthAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/NetAuthAgent
root 133 0.0 0.2 2542704 8592 ?? Ss 7:24PM 0:00.05 /usr/libexec/launchdadd
root 137 0.0 0.1 2470900 2664 ?? Ss 7:25PM 0:00.01 /usr/libexec/service_helper
Processes ONLY in BAD boot (normal mode) only, sample one:
_atsserver 166 0.0 0.2 2509832 9508 ?? Ss 2:29PM 0:00.18 /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/ATS.framewo rk/Support/fontd
neil 163 0.0 1.6 2662752 65424 ?? UNs 2:24PM 0:01.58 /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/Metadata.framework /Versions/A/Support/mdworker MDSImporterWorker com.apple.Spotlight.ImporterWorker.501
root 47 0.0 0.0 610804 688 ?? Ss 2:22PM 0:00.02 /opt/nova/bin/novacomd
root 48 0.0 0.1 103928 6160 ?? Ss 2:22PM 0:00.20 /usr/sbin/qmasterd
root 72 0.0 0.1 2447440 2216 ?? Ss 2:23PM 0:00.01 /System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/cvmsServ
root 121 0.0 0.2 2511576 6648 ?? S 2:23PM 0:00.03 /System/Library/CoreServices/AirPort Base Station Agent.app/Contents/MacOS/AirPort Base Station Agent -launchd -allowquit
root 122 0.0 0.1 369288 2112 ?? S 2:23PM 0:00.06 /Library/Printers/Canon/CUPSCAPT/BackGrounder/Canon CAPT BackGrounder.app/Contents/MacOS/Canon CAPT BackGrounder
root 124 0.0 0.1 420252 4956 ?? S 2:23PM 0:00.61 /Applications/Timbuktu Pro/Timbuktu Pro.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Timbuktu Host.app/Contents/MacOS/Timbuktu Host
root 140 0.0 0.1 393724 4432 ?? S 2:23PM 0:00.13 /Applications/Timbuktu Pro/Timbuktu Pro.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Timbuktu Host Menu.app/Contents/MacOS/Timbuktu Host Menu -psn069649
root 141 0.0 0.1 368012 2260 ?? S 2:23PM 0:00.07 /Applications/Timbuktu Pro/Timbuktu Pro.app/Contents/SharedSupport/TimbuktuSkype.app/Contents/MacOS/TimbuktuSkype -psn073746
root 155 0.0 0.7 11280524 29452 ?? S 2:24PM 0:00.96 /System/Library/CoreServices/Apple80211Agent.app/Contents/MacOS/Apple80211Agent -psn081940
root 157 0.0 0.1 2500628 6244 ?? SN 2:24PM 0:00.02 /usr/sbin/kextcache -F -system-prelinked-kernel
root 167 0.0 0.2 2514968 8284 ?? Ss 2:29PM 0:00.16 (fontworker)
Processes ONLY in BAD boot (normal mode) only, sample two (I think I must have killed Timbuktu in this):
_atsserver 166 0.0 0.2 2509308 9488 ?? Ss 2:29PM 0:00.19 /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/ATS.framewo rk/Support/fontd
_cvmsroot 182 0.0 0.0 2458640 1160 ?? Ss 2:58PM 0:00.01 /sbin/launchd
_cvmsroot 184 0.0 0.2 2452464 6624 ?? S 2:58PM 0:00.05 /System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/cvmsCompx8664 1
_spotlight 189 0.0 0.2 2532652 9988 ?? SNs 2:59PM 0:00.10 /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/Metadata.framework /Versions/A/Support/mdworker MDSImporterWorker com.apple.Spotlight.ImporterWorker.89
neil 163 0.0 1.6 2662228 65756 ?? UNs 2:24PM 0:01.91 /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/Metadata.framework /Versions/A/Support/mdworker MDSImporterWorker com.apple.Spotlight.ImporterWorker.501
root 186 0.0 0.0 610804 688 ?? Ss 2:59PM 0:00.03 /opt/nova/bin/novacomd
root 48 0.0 0.1 103928 6160 ?? Ss 2:22PM 0:00.21 /usr/sbin/qmasterd
root 72 0.0 0.1 2447964 2232 ?? Ss 2:23PM 0:00.01 /System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/cvmsServ
root 121 0.0 0.2 2511576 6648 ?? S 2:23PM 0:00.04 /System/Library/CoreServices/AirPort Base Station Agent.app/Contents/MacOS/AirPort Base Station Agent -launchd -allowquit
root 188 0.0 0.0 369544 1872 ?? S 2:59PM 0:00.03 /Library/Printers/Canon/CUPSCAPT/BackGrounder/Canon CAPT BackGrounder.app/Contents/MacOS/Canon CAPT BackGrounder
root 155 0.0 0.7 11280524 29524 ?? S 2:24PM 0:00.98 /System/Library/CoreServices/Apple80211Agent.app/Contents/MacOS/Apple80211Agent -psn081940
I'm running out of bright ideas.
Neil.

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