Re: Mail.app is out of control

From	Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.apps, comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject	Re: Mail.app is out of control
Date	2015-10-06 09:35 -0700
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<061020150935273703%michelle@michelle.org> (permalink)
References	<061020150834284161%michelle@michelle.org> <mv0rtd$iok$1@dont-email.me>

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In article <mv0rtd$iok$1@dont-email.me>, John McWilliams
<jpmcw@comcast.net> wrote:

> On 10/6/15   PDT 8:34 AM, Michelle Steiner wrote:
> > For some reason, mail.app has started to become a memory hog on my
> > system.  It balloons to using 55 to 60+ gigabytes on this 8-GB machine.
> > Needless to say, a lot is swapped, and performance slows to a crawl,
> > eventually leading to an "Out of Application Memory" alert.
> >
> > Restarting the computer doesn't help.
> >
> > Any relevant suggestions for fixing this problem?
> 
> I'd run Rebuild Mailboxes- each one, takes time and there's scant clues 
> that it's running.
> 
Thanks.  I'll try that.

-- Michelle

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Mail.app is out of control Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-10-06 08:34 -0700
  Re: Mail.app is out of control John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2015-10-06 09:14 -0700
    Re: Mail.app is out of control Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-10-06 09:35 -0700
  Re: Mail.app is out of control Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-06 13:34 -0400
    Re: Mail.app is out of control Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-10-06 11:30 -0700
      Re: Mail.app is out of control Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-10-06 11:53 -0700
        Re: Mail.app is out of control JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-10-06 19:32 -0400
          Re: Mail.app is out of control Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-10-06 17:21 -0700
          Re: Mail.app is out of control Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> - 2015-10-07 11:18 +0000
            Re: Mail.app is out of control Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-07 16:20 +0000
              Re: Mail.app is out of control Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> - 2015-10-07 20:30 +0000
        Re: Mail.app is out of control Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-06 20:59 -0400
          Re: Mail.app is out of control Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-10-06 18:30 -0700
        Re: Mail.app is out of control Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> - 2015-10-19 12:17 +0000

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