Re: Mail.app is out of control

Subject	Re: Mail.app is out of control
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.apps, comp.sys.mac.comm
References	<061020150834284161%michelle@michelle.org> <pOadnb_a-Obdm4nLnZ2dnUU7-UudnZ2d@giganews.com> <061020151130423475%michelle@michelle.org> <061020151153174785%michelle@michelle.org>
From	Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca>
Date	2015-10-06 20:59 -0400
Message-ID	<i4SdnRes79wf84nLnZ2dnUU7-SWdnZ2d@giganews.com> (permalink)

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On 2015-10-06 14:53, Michelle Steiner wrote:
> 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.

So it did help!   ;-)

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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

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