Agylen

Here’s a tip for speeding up Mail.app, in case it appears sluggish. Here’s how I did it on my MacBook Pro:

MaBi:~/Library/Mail ugocei$ ls -l Envelope Index
-rw-r--r--   1 ugocei  ugocei  84746240 Mar  2 17:08 Envelope Index
MaBi:~/Library/Mail ugocei$ cp Envelope Index Envelope Index.bak
MaBi:~/Library/Mail ugocei$ sqlite3 Envelope Index
SQLite version 3.1.3
Enter ".help" for instructions
sqlite> vacuum subjects;
MaBi:~/Library/Mail ugocei$ ls -l Envelope Index*
-rw-r--r--   1 ugocei  ugocei  75509760 Mar  2 17:11 Envelope Index
-rw-r--r--   1 ugocei  ugocei  84746240 Mar  2 17:09 Envelope Index.bak

Notice that the index didn’t shrink by much. Other people have reported much larger reductions, but starting from a smaller initial size.

I am also not sure Mail.app’s performance is much better now. It wasn’t particularly bad to start with, if not occasionally and when opening very large messages. I’ll have to use it for a while before I am able to tell the difference, if there’s any.