Mail going slow and churning

I have six mail accounts. i have mail going back at least five years on the mac so I appreciate I have a lot there. Mail is now very difficult to use when switching from one mailbox to another for example, it is very slow with lots of time spent gazing at the spinning beach ball. I have switched checking mail to every 5 mins instead of every 1 minute and that helped a little. But once it starts to perform all the rule actions and rebuilding of virtual folders the app is unavailable. Any suggestions on how to speed life up?
cheers.

OK. Verify/repair the startup disk (not just permissions), as described here:
The Repair functions of Disk Utility: what's it all about?
After having fixed all filesystem issues, if any, and making sure that there’s enough space available on the startup disk (a few GB, plus the space needed to make a backup copy of the Mail folder), try this:
1. Quit Mail if it’s running.
2. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/. Make a backup copy of this folder, just in case something goes wrong, e.g. by dragging it to the Desktop while holding the Option (Alt) key down. This is where all your mail is stored.
3. Locate Envelope Index and move it to the Trash. If you see an Envelope Index-journal file there, delete it as well.
4. Open Mail. It will tell you that your mail needs to be “imported”. Click Continue and Mail will proceed to re-create Envelope Index -- Mail says it’s “importing”, but it just re-creates the index if the mailboxes are already in Mail 2.x format.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder, i.e. ~/Library is the Library folder within the user’s home folder.

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