Why is Mail so slow on 10.8.2

Why is Mail so slow on 10.8.2?

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  • Why is Mail so slow on both macbook and my imac?

    I'm not very competant in email technology. I started to use Mail when I got my iMac, but I find it is always very slow and I have  to routinely chase it up-same problem with my Macbook. I find  I end up using live.com.au cos it's always there for me.  I'm happy to accept it's pilot error, but tell me what i do wrong:)

    Do you mean Mail is slow at starting or at showing you that you've got new mail? Because if it's the latter then you can change the frequency it checks if you've got new mail. For me the default was 'every 5 minutes', so you can change it to like 'every minute' or something. Does that solve the problem maybe?

  • Why is mail so slow on exchange 2007 for IMAP

    I have just started using mail and the server side is MS exchange 2007. I have a 2Gb mailbox on the server with lots of subfolders, but it is so slow syncing with IMAP. I have not even finished sync because it comes to a halt sometimes.
    Does anyone know why this might happen.
    Thanks
    Michael

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  • Why is mail so slow and uses all of system resources?

    I want to use Mail on my Macbook Air 2010.  I use it on my iPhone with no problems at all.  I have several gmail accounts and me.com accounts.  I have tried even just using only my main account in Mail.  I am now using a system resource monitor and can see that Mail takes up 100% of resources while appearing to do nothing.  When I click on Sent or Drafts, it often shows nothing when I know that there should be stuff there.  I have tried "rebuild" which did not seem to do anything.  Also, it takes forever to quit.
    I cannot understand why this program does not work for me.  I have not done anything out the ordinary that I am aware of.  Does it not work well with gmail accounts?  If so, why does the iPhone version handle gmail so well?
    I will try that, just using my iCloud account only.  I just want to make sure that when I mail a link from safari or a photo from iPhoto, that it actually goes out and goes in a reasonable amount of time.
    Mail for me is a system resource hog.  I am afraid to open it.

    I stopped all processes and deleted all accounts and started over with the gmail account.  This time, I chose the option to not store anything locally.  It warned me that I would not be able to read email offline.  When I clicked "save" from preferences, it froze for about an hour with CPU maxed out.  I am going to force quit mail, delete the account again and just go with my fresh iCloud account.  I can set my gmail account to forward messages and then I can freely delete them from the iCloud account knowing that they are still there in gmail.  I guess this will work ok.  I just won't be able to send out from my gmail account from Mail which will confuse some recipients and then lead to people sending mail to the wrong account.
    I wish there was an option in Mail to "act like iOS Mail."  I believe that would solve my problem.

  • Why is Mail so slow on Mountain Lion?

    Hi there, I have about 200,000 e-mails in my mailbox. Double-clicking regularly takes 5-10 seconds to open with the "Loading..." message. Also, file attachments don't seem to be there when I open an e-mail downloaded 15 minutes or more prior. It feels a lot slower that Lion. I was hoping it would be faster. I hope they work on optimizing Mail, because it doesn't feel better than Lion.
    Thanks...Neil

    Quit Mail.
    Back up all data if you haven’t already done so. Before proceeding, you must be sure you can restore your system to the state it’s in now.
    In the Finder, select Go ▹ Go to Folder... from the menu bar, copy the text on the line below into the box that opens, and press return:
    ~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/Envelope Index
    Delete the selected file. Relaunch Mail and test. It should re-index your mailboxes.

  • Why is Mail so slow on iphone

    My Mail on my iPhone has become increasingly clunky and slow over the last week even on wifi. every actio (opening a mailbox or message, trashing a message etc) only seems to work if I press the home button to leave the app and then click mail to reopen it. Every time I do this the message or action then completes. This is becoming time consuming to the point of being unusable and I will switch to something else if I can't fix it.

    welshgit2 wrote:
    My Mail on my iPhone has become increasingly clunky and slow over the last week even on wifi. every actio (opening a mailbox or message, trashing a message etc) only seems to work if I press the home button to leave the app and then click mail to reopen it. Every time I do this the message or action then completes. This is becoming time consuming to the point of being unusable and I will switch to something else if I can't fix it.
    Maybe the issue is with your wifi.

  • Why is Apple Mail so slow?

    I use Apple mail to access my gmail account. Every time I open up this program, there's a circle (similar to the circle you have on the gray screen at start up) next to the inbox icon to indicate that it's loading my mail. It's there for like 10 minutes. Then, when I actually want to check my mail, I click on a new mail and I get the colored circle which indicates that it's thinking. After a while I get fed up and just log on to gmail directly. Is something wrong with my computer or is Apple mail just slow for everybody?

    Did you upgrade to Tiger on this Mac from a previous OS X version, and if so, where you using the Mail.app with the previous OS X version?
    If so, the mbox file structure was changed with Tiger Mail, and when upgrading to Tiger from a previous OS X version, there are some left over mbox files for each mailbox from the previous Mail.app version which are no longer used, but are not deleted after the conversion to the new mbox filing structure for each mailbox is completed.
    If you didn't upgrade to Tiger from a previous OS X version on this Mac, have you tried using the Rebuild Mailbox function on the problem mailboxes? If not, be sure to create a backup of your Mail folder at Home > Library > Mail with the Mail.app quit before doing so before using the Rebuild Mailbox function.

  • Why use mail client over web site mail inteface?

    Hello.
    I had question to all emial client user's:
    Why use mail client over web site mail inteface?
    And I have one more question.
    Is there any option to backup/compress your mail in mutt or thunderbird?

    brisbin33 wrote:
    briest wrote:
    brisbin33 wrote:Also, imap in mutt for me is sooooo slow (proportional to the size of the mailbox of course)
    Do you use header caching? It can accelerate remote imap access, but is disabled by default. Also playing with imap_idle (yes, if server supports), imap_keepalive (low) and timeout (high) may produce nice results.
    i've tried everything (always caching, and setting various imap_* options).  trust me.  it's funny, it wasn't bad at first, then one day i'd hit j/k and 3 seconds later the indicator would move... that's when i set up offlineimap.
    I'm very happy with this maildir setup now .  thanks anyway tho.
    OMG, mutt is flying right now! Even with header and message cache is mutt + imap not the fastest. I reccomend offlineimap for everyone.

  • Outgoing mail very slow

    When I send an email. The wheel spins for quite awhile before the message leaves. This is a relatively new problem. I'm not sure if it started when I installed 10.5

    MAC Mail, for some reason, wants a DNS server setting in the network setup.
    Under System Preferences, go to Network and add your DNS numbers for your ISP Server. Get the right numbers from your ISP. I did a search for "DNS" on the ATT/YAHOO member web site.
    This fixes the slow checking and sending of mail....It also fixes problems where mail sends slow and may give Authentication errors.
    I spent many hours on this and finally the answer was posted on this forum.
    Public DNS servers are less likely to be changed. They have been tried and do work. Nobody knows why.
    For Public DNS servers look at.
    http://www.tech-faq.com/public-dns-servers.shtml

  • Mail extremely slow, sometimes cannot connect

    Mail has become incredibly slow: sometimes it take thirty seconds to load a text message with two lines.
    Sometimes, upon starting up, it can't connect at all.
    At the same time, the internet connection is fine, and all browsers work.
    I'm on 10.8.5 with a first gen retina MacBook Pro with 512 Gb disc and 16Gb ram.
    Should I reinstall Mail? What could be the reason for the sluggish performance (it doesn't happen all the time, sometimes Mail seems to work fine, but very often I get "Loading..." forever.
    And, again, I'm getting the zigzag sign for interrupted connection. Why doesn't Mail work?
    update: I checked activity: Mail is constantly logging out of my mail accounts, and then has to log back in, which is why it's so slow. How can I prevent Mail from logging out?
    Also: Mail gets stuck in the middle of downloading messages. The blue bar in the activity window only goes halfway, and then is stuck for fifteen to thirty seconds... which is the time it needs to get me my mail.

    Sometimes this problem can be cured by tidying up the Keychain, where login info is stored. You can do this by opening Keychain Access in your Utilities folder. Find the location and login info for the mail account. Delete, say, all but the most recent one. Does that fix the problem?  If not, go back and delete even the recent one. When Mail asks you for your login stuff, give it, then check the box which says to store it in the keychain.  Sometimes just doing this last step is enough to clear up the annoying login windows.
    charlie

  • Why are attachments so slow to open on OS X Mavericks?

    Why are attachments SO slow to open in Mail??? I have an iPad and iPhone 5S and I have no issues... this is a brand new MacBook Pro and it takes FOREVER to download an attachment in Mail....

    I have the same issue, no way to find a solution, I am searching all the support pages...

  • Working with Outlook 2011 for Mac, my mails are slow and I can work only on-line, when off-line, mail cannot be opened because it is only partially downloaded. How to solve??

    working with Outlook 2011 for Mac, my mails are slow and I can work only on-line, when off-line, mail cannot be opened because it is only partially downloaded. How to solve??

    Try http://www.microsoft.com/mac/support.

  • Why does Photoshop keep slowing down?

    I've been using Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 for two years now, and for some reason it seems to have the problem of slowing down after using it for a while, so if I'm working on a project I have to keep closing it and reopening it to get it fast again. It's weird because it doesn't seem to matter how much stuff is on the canvas, it's just how much I've drawn and hit undo and erased or did anything, After like 5 minutes of straight work it just gets too slow for me to work in, like when I switch tools or change the color it takes a couple seconds to respond. So literally every couple minutes I have to restart Photoshop and open the same file.
    What's really odd is that sometimes Photoshop will work perfectly fine and stay lightning fast for hours. Like, for the last couple of months it's been 100% fine, but since a few days ago it started to have this "slowing down" issue again. Every couple months it seems to decide to be perfectly fine or just really annoying. I didn't change anything in my computer.
    It can't be my computers specs or my settings in Photoshop, but I will tell you all of that anyway.
    OS - Windows 7 64-bit
    CPU - Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 3.0GHz
    RAM - 12GB DDR3 @ 1333MHz

    There is no malware scanner running, in fact I have tried closing out all other applications and unnecessary processes to help improve performance. No luck.
    Also, my post actually wasn't quite finished, but my internet shut off on me last night and I guess that just automatically posted whatever I had done before then. What's even better is that the forums won't allow me to edit it. What great features!
    Anyway, here's the FULL spec sheet of my computer...
    OS - Windows 7 64-bit
    CPU - Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 3.0GHz
    RAM - 12GB DDR3 @ 1333MHz
    GPU - NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 1GB
    Storage - 1x 128GB SSD (OS installed on), 1x 750GB HDD, 1x 160GB HDD
    I have the 64-bit version of Photoshop CS5.1 Extended, installed on the SSD. Here's the settings I have in the preferences:
    Memory Usage - 100%
    Scratch Disks - All 3, SSD 1st, 750GB HDD 2nd, 160GB HDD 3rd
    History States - 100
    Cache Levels - 8
    Cache Tile Size - 1028K
    I have fiddled with these settings and restarted Photoshop countless times. In the end it's the same exact result: Photoshop slows down after a few minutes of work and I have to restart it. I have about 50GB free on the SSD, 150GB free on the 750GB, and about 140GB free on the 160GB.
    I don't understand why it gets so slow even when my RAM usage only makes it up to about 45%. Why doesn't it just utilize ALL of the memory like I told it to?
    I've tried setting cache to 1, 2, and 4, same result. Cache tile size to all the different settings, same result. History states to an extremely low level like 10, same result. I just don't understand why Photoshop is doing this, especially because it decides to speed up on its own every couple of months...

  • Why is Start up slow on MacBook Pro after Lion installation?

    I've noticed that it takes a while for my MacBook to turn on and start-up since I installed Lion. Any ideas why or how to correct? Thanks!!

    Your machine is likely too dated to run 10.8 adequately.
    Apple makes it easy, doesn't mean it's right match for your hardware.
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  • When I send an email from Mac Mail, why does Mail go to the background and the Finder comes to the front? I want it to stay in Mail.

    When I send an email from Mac Mail, why does Mail go to the background and the Finder comes to the front? I want it to stay in Mail.

    Did you check your user name and password in Settings>Mail,Contacts,Calendars...tap your email account, tap SMTP, then tap the primary server name.  Make sure the settings there are correct.

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