Speed up Mail.app

[Robert La Ferla]

Thank you!!!  That fixed my problem even though the index after  
vacuuming is the same (very large) size.  I don't know if they are  
planning to or not but Apple should turn on auto-vacuum for Leopard.

On Mar 4, 2007, at 6:14 AM, Gregor Alessi wrote:

> Hi all
>
> There were discussions in the past about Mail.app getting slow when  
> the boxes were filling.
>
> I just found this via digg and think this might help some of you too:
> http://www.hawkwings.net/2007/03/01/a-faster-way-to-speed-up-mailapp/
>
> The results here were amazing.
>
> In short:
> quit Mail.app, open Terminal
> sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/Envelope\ Index
> at the prompt, type
> vacuum subjects;
> wait til the prompt returns and quit sqlite with ctrl-D
> launch Mail.app
>
> It might be a good idea to make a backup of your Mail folder  
> *before* attempting this.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Gregor
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