Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Mail.app issues and tweaks! 

Stolen from a post I put on 37

I've been having some problems with my Mail.app lately, I had e-mails that wouldn't delete (spam bounces), I couldn't quit Mail without a force-quit, it was sluggish, etc.
I researched and found this site:

Hawk Wings

Where among the tips I found:
rebuild the mailboxes
use Command-X to delete stubborn e-mails
Activity viewer within mail (it wouldn't quit because it was trying to deal with 1200 spam e-mails that hit my website catchall mails).

But what was really cool, besides changing my Mail dock icon and making the little notifications blue instead of red: Icon & Badges

was this tip for what amounts to defragging Mail's database to make it snappy as all get-out:
Vacuum command to fix Envelpoe database

My before was 13MB and my after was 5MB and wow.
I did Teflon's machine and her before was 219KB down to 170KB (someone else isn't as excited about internets and computers as I am).

Just a cool pass it along, as I hardly ever find anything this worthwhile.

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