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Re: Mail.app is out of control

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In article <061020151130423475%michelle@michelle.org>, Michelle Steiner
<michelle@michelle.org> wrote:

> In article <pOadnb_a-Obdm4nLnZ2dnUU7-UudnZ2d@giganews.com>, Alan Browne
> <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> 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.
> > 
> > 94 MB here.  MB I say.
> > 
> > > Restarting the computer doesn't help.
> > >
> > > Any relevant suggestions for fixing this problem?
> > 
> > Some easy to-do's that won't hurt and might help:
> > 1)
> > In Mail:
> > On each folder do Rebuild (dropdown the Mailbox from menu).
> 
> 
> Didn't help.
> 
> I don't have the problem in another (test) account, but that account
> doesn't have all the mail accounts nor stored messages.
> 
> > 2)
> > Quit Mail:
> > Terminal:
> > sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/V3/MailData/Envelope\ Index vacuum;
> > 
> > (Note - verify where your "Envelope Index" is first - mine's in V3 with 
> > 10.11 - I think it was in V2 for 10.10...).
> 
> Didn't help.

In fact, mail won't even open now.  I have a genius-bar appointment for
tomorrow.

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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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