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A while ago, I had trouble with my MAIL showing the spinning wheel and slowing down not only MAIL but the rest of the computer as well. For no particular reason, while the wheel was/is spinning, messages show up in the tool bar such as "adding 1 of 1 email address's to Address Book" even though these were not in relation to any 'new'address's: "deleting messages" even when I had not given any instructions to delete anything: "updating color for msg 2 of 2": etc.
Some time ago Sherry Johnson gave me a fix which involved backing up my MAIL program onto the desktop, then Trashing Com.Apple.mail.plist. This seems to have worked for quite awhile but I have recently had to do the same thing and who knows how long this 'fix' will last. I have talked to a friend with an eMac and he indicates he is having a similar problem. Can anyone shed light on just WHY this problem occurs and any other ideas other than Sherry's (which was an excellent one by the way-thanks again Sherry). Thanks for any input on this.
Cheers.
PS: I believe my friends eMac is one OS above(newer) my 10.2.8

I posted in the cross thread.
regards roam

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