Slow Typing In Mail: A Permanent Fix???

Ultra slow typing in Mail seems to be a Leopard "feature". Quitting and starting again, restores a semblance of good behaviour. Not as fast as, say, TextEdit, but acceptable. And then it starts slowing down once again... until one quits and restarts.
This seems to be a bona fide bug. Is there a "true" fix?

Thanks Pascal. I know that many users do not have this problem, which is kind of infuriating if you see what I mean... :-))) My only plug-in is SpamSieve which never caused me any problem until Leopard. I tried with or without SpamSieve, and the same problem reappears - slowing down after a few days, until I restart.
I must add that Mail never caused me any problems until 10.4.11 included. Never. This is something new... Next move: I am going to search and destroy any plist file associated with Mail. If it doesn't work, I will reinstall Mail from scratch.
Other users have reported the same problem here, and their posts went unanswered. Their only work-around was also to quit and restart. Strange.
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Hi all,
The key delay in Mail is getting longer and longer. I used to fix this by deleting the file: com.apple.security.plist.bak from Mac HD > Preferences and it worked fine.
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Thanks Pascal. I know that many users do not have this problem, which is kind of infuriating if you see what I mean... :-))) My only plug-in is SpamSieve which never caused me any problem until Leopard. I tried with or without SpamSieve, and the same problem reappears - slowing down after a few days, until I restart.
I must add that Mail never caused me any problems until 10.4.11 included. Never. This is something new... Next move: I am going to search and destroy any plist file associated with Mail. If it doesn't work, I will reinstall Mail from scratch.
Other users have reported the same problem here, and their posts went unanswered. Their only work-around was also to quit and restart. Strange.
Thanks for contributing

Slow hesitant typing in Mail

I found some older posts on this and folks there seemed to get no help so I thought I would start a fresh post on this subject...
When Leopard arrived, I switched from Entourage to Mail.
I have had no problem until the last month.
Now...when I type a line...Mail waits for while before finishing what I have written.
It's not just happening occasionally...it's happening a lot.
I rebuilt my envelope index.
I did the terminal tricks and they did speed up opening mail and moving around in Mail
but it did nothing about this problem.
I have disk warriored...trashed logs...trashed caches...fixed permissions...etc etc etc.
No change.
Some people report that restarting seems to help but after 5-10 emails, it starts again.
I see the same thing on my mac.
BY THE WAY...is there a bug in the board here?
Above this text box, I see:
A draft of this message was saved on Apr 23, 2009 6:56 AM.
Would you like to use the draft or delete it?
This makes no sense because I hit "new post".
When I hit delete, nothing happened.
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I'm having the same issue with slow typing in mail. It is confined to mail.app and is absolutely killing me. Everything was running fine one day, then the next I had this mail issue. I send emails all day long, and am being forced to switch out of mail.app (my preferred program) and into something else because of this problem.
I can find no fix, no matter how hard I search for one. Has anyone found a cure for this?
Thanks.

Some emails are there when searching, but do not show up in inbox for mail account. How do we permanently fix that? This is dangerous for businesses that rely

Hi, and thanks,
I noticed that many dozens of others have expressed the same problem with Thunderbird, but it still continues.
For no apparent reason, sporadically, some emails don't show up in the inbox list of an account, but are actually there. If we're told later that someone sent one, and if we do a search at that time, it does come up!
We rely on this for business, and wouldn't know to search if we are unaware that an email has come in but simply doesn't appear in the list. We have actually lost significant business $ on 3 separate occasions, from clients who have said they emailed us, but we never responded! (That's really bad, and even worse because they also won't use us any more.)
Obviously, we of course would not want to have to check with the webmail host when we have Thunderbird. So...., how can we permanently fix this problem so it never, ever occurs??? We used to use Eudora before switching, and this never happened.
Some blogs say to delete one of the files in the system to re-index the inboxes, but again, that would not be the answer, because we wouldn't know to do that, nor when to do that, since some emails, without a warning or clue, occasionally simply don't show up in the list at all.
Please let us know the permanent and complete fix for this ASAP.
Thanks so much,
Les Pock

Lers, I have used Thunderbird for the best part of a decade and have only once experienced something similar to what you describe and it was a corrupt database.
So lets just back up a bit.
If you want mail to flow without issue the first bullet to bite is anti virus.
* Scanning of outgoing mail is a total waste of time and an added risk for no return. You anti virus already certifies your machine clean.
* Scanning of incoming mail is of extremely limited value. Thunderbird does not allow scripts in email, so there is no bug that will junmp out and start running even if your mail is not scanned and it contains a virus. The exception to that is attachments. But they are not dangerous either, unless you try and open them. Even then your anti virus should be monitoring the temporary folder on your computer and blocking any attempt to write the infected file, let alone execute the contents.
* Scanning of your mail folder likewise is of limited value, but is more than often the cause of mail indexes not being updated. These days anti virus program appear to scan everything. Every file as it is accessed and opened. Thunderbird often has quite large files to store mail, up to 4Gb is not all that uncommon. Anti virus program take about 2 minuted per Gigabyte to scan files. So it can be the case that the anti virus is scanning while Thunderbird is timing out waiting for access to the appropriate files.
To make things more efficient exclude your Thunderbird mail profile folders from on access scanning by your anti virus program. The folders contain NO executable programs, and a weekly scan along with the rest of your computer with Thunderbird closed should be more than adequate. Perhaps scheduled for1am Friday. Gives Friday to deal with anything found and does not interrupt your use of the device.
A similar exclusion can also be beneficial for other data storage areas (databases especially)
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Mail slow typing

Since upgrading to Yosemite, I have experienced slow typing when composing a message in Apple Mail. Frequently, the letters appear on the screen 5 seconds after they are typed. It is so slow that the Mail program is essentially unusable. I posed this problem to Applecare and, after five attempts to correct the problem, I gave up. It seems they don't know what is causing it.
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Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.
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Thanks Pascal. I know that many users do not have this problem, which is kind of infuriating if you see what I mean... :-))) My only plug-in is SpamSieve which never caused me any problem until Leopard. I tried with or without SpamSieve, and the same problem reappears - slowing down after a few days, until I restart.
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Go to system profiler and report back the amount of RAM that you have.
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Make sure you don't have a lot of items on your desktop as that can slow things down.
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I am aware of this discussion, however that discussion started before Mavericks was released, and there has been no acknowledgement on Adobe's part of what may be a newer issue related only to Mavericks. To further support this, I did not have any issues with keyboard input performance while on Mountain Lion.
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Hi ,
We are happy to inform you that DW's next update is made available today. This update has a fix for the slow typing issues in DW Please install & let us know your thoughts
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