Comments on: Is Apple Mail running slow? Speed it up

By: Luca

Luca — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:17:59 +0000

Dan, I love you! Really, I want to have sex with you!
My letargic Mail now is lightspeed fast! Envelope went down from 120M to 58M!! It is like using a new computer!

By: patrick

patrick — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:33:53 +0000

Change my size from 46M to 6M – greatly speeded up, thanks !!! Great tip – can't believe how I have been struggling …

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:51:34 +0000

What a difference, many thanks!!!

By: Cyndi

Cyndi — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:15:01 +0000

Went from 54M to 39M and it's much faster now, though having trouble with my deleted mail boxes. Thanks for the pointer to the original tip and especially for clarifying it into two easy 1-line commands.

By: Duende

Duende — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:17:19 +0000

I feel your pain griff but it worked like a charm for me. Thanks Dan

By: Will

Will — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:33:26 +0000

OH thank God, when I closed out Mail and reopened my emails appeared and so much more quickly :) hehe, but seriously for those of us not technically astute you might want to add that warning.

By: Sndl

Sndl — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 19:57:51 +0000

I get

"SQL error: database locked"

Is there some way to force optimization for non-admin accounts?

Thanks.

By: Lennon Aldort

Lennon Aldort — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:38:40 +0000

Wow! Thank you! I dropped mine from 88mb to 60mb, and my horrendous slow mail issues are gone! Mailboxes were taking 3 or 4 MINUTES to open sometimes. Everything is snappy now! Thanks!

By: drjackso

drjackso — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:36:52 +0000

WOW dropped from 137M to 129M, but what a differences in speed.

By: Danilo

Danilo — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:33:41 +0000

Excellent! It saved me some 15m a day. Thanks!

By: Griff

Griff — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:58:44 +0000

Make that 3 of them
Brilliant.
Any idea how to get them back without reloading the entire mailbox from the original server ?

By: Griff

Griff — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:57:05 +0000

hmm,
now 2 of my POP mailboxes have disappeared.
Thanks for that

By: evan

evan — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:00:20 +0000

This worked extremely well for me and will now save me a ton of time previously wasted waiting for mailboxes to load.

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:46:28 +0000

This is excellent!

Many thanks, the slowness was starting to drive me crazy on my 125Mb mail (down from 137Mb, but much faster).

What a relief

Note that on large mailboxes, the vacuum can take a minute or two – don't panic!

By: David Eldridge

David Eldridge — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 05:16:43 +0000

THANKS! that is so much better. [Sigh.]

By: Bryce

Bryce — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:59:33 +0000

thanks a lot, seems to have worked

By: Jackie

Jackie — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:03:28 +0000

This is a fantastic tip. I've been searching the web for awhile looking for this answer. I have a fairly new computer and nowhere near the thousands of emails the other person mentioned, but I would still have to wait on Mail to catch up to my typing which was very frustrating! Thanks.

By: Kidpix

Kidpix — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:44:07 +0000

Great!!!
Thanks!!!

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:04:34 +0000

Been meaning to find a solution to my sluggish mail for weeks now. This worked like a dream. Many thanks.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 02:39:51 +0000

Worked great for me. Thanks!

By: Gavin

Gavin — Thu, 31 May 2007 01:08:51 +0000

thanks for that, lets see if speeds me up, I have THOUSANDS of Mails everywhere…