Please HELP, imac flat panel email sooo slow, locks up

Hi There, I have read soo many discussions but still can't real find the help i need. I have a flat panel 17 inch imac running 10.2.8. It has been fine for the last 4 years, but just in the past month or so it has been very annoying. It seems to be mostly when i am using mail or safari. the other apps don't seem that slow. I can have every app closed except mail and it will give me the beach ball and lock up.
I have gotten an external hd and put all my music on that. I have also tried to run disk utility and macjanitor, but it's still painful to try to be on mail/online.
Is there a way to run iphoto from the mac hd but have the library read from the external like in itunes?
Any other suggestions would be awesome!!
Please.Thanks Bobby

hi there,
Thanks for the help guys. I don't think space is an issue. I have Capacity: 74.52gb, Available: 52.55 and used: 21.97. I tried Onyx and that seemed to help a lot. I didn't know what I was doing, but I just hit delete and execute where i could! My mail still acts really weird. I can use it for a while sometimes and it's fine and sometimes you just delete a msg or go to a different msg and it says "writing changes to disk." It will get stuck like that for about 2-5minutes. If you just don't touch anything it will resolve, but it's really annoying.
I don't check a hotmail account, but I do have a pop account setup through my website domain. I try to keep my messages low on both computers. I've had it like that for a while and it's just starting to do the "writing changes to disk" problem.
Anyway, thanks for the help. I think Onyx will get me through!
Bobby

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