Mail consumers all memory, seems to run fine, but makes fan run constantly.

Recently, Inoticed that my fan runs a lot lately and used Activity Monitor to see what was going on and sure enough, Mail is using 99% of my CPU... I have always left my Mail on and left it to check for incoming messages, but until about a week ago, the fan started to run and the computer would get warm. Before doing the Activity Monitor, I started shutting things down one at a time and noticed that shutting Mail down would do the trick. I am curious: why is Mail now after months starting to make my computer run at such high temps? Is it a mail storage thing? A Newtwork thing? Any suggestions? I have taken a sample of the program and I can't make heads or tails of it... I just see it takes up everything thanks in advance.

Yes, I have been doing the same thing, but I want to know what has changed. I have looked at the activity monitor and see that my activity skyrockets and it says it's cooking at 99%+ activity, and the fan kicks in, and then when I quit it, the whole thing goes back to normal... it seems to be this one app and nothing else...

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Question: I bought a 5 yr old Mac G5 OSx 10.4.11, 2 GHz intel Core 2 Duo processor, 1GB 667 MHz DDR1 SDRAM memory. It works fine but I can't get Thunderbird, Flash Player or Adobe reader to install -- it shows up on desktop as download but not App folder. Why?

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NOTE: If you iMac is Intel, it's not a PPC G5.

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Thanks Mike,
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What does the crash report say about the name of the faulting module?
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fan runs constantly and laptop gets very hot

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<hr width="400">To re-set your OS X Admin password:
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Here are screenshots of my activity monitor: http://imgur.com/a/shehM
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Mail consumers all memory, seems to run fine, but makes fan run constantly.

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