My Mail is really slow and the macbook fan is always on.

I have tried different fixes involved in the cleaning up the index, envelope, etc and they do work, for about an hour or so and the problem starts again. My fan is always on when things start slowing down. and then soon my whole macbook is affected. I have over 350 000 messages saved. would that be the cause? can anyone help? thanks.

How much free space on the startup disk? Not enough can slow the drive down.
Click the Apple menu icon top left in your screen. From the drop down menu click About this Mac > More Info > Storage
Make sure there's at least 15% free disk space.
350,000 messages? Depending on file size, that could be taking up a ton of storage space.
To see a breakdown click About This Mac from your Apple () menu then click More Info then click Storage.
OSX Tips The Storage Display
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