Comments on: Incoming mail has stopped coming in http://j2mac.com/2007/02/incoming-mail-has-stopped-coming-in/ Chicken Soup for the Mac Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:15:52 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Jonathan http://j2mac.com/2007/02/incoming-mail-has-stopped-coming-in/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Jonathan Wed, 02 May 2007 06:01:00 +0000 http://j2mac.com/?p=12#comment-10 Big anti-sluggishness tip: Go into your home folder (look around, in Finder, for the little house that probably has your name on it — know the home folder, love the home folder), so then into Home folder > Library > Caches, and delete the cache folder for whatever application is running slowly.<br/><br/>(BTW, Mac users should come to learn that the home folder can be represented by a tilde "~".) Big anti-sluggishness tip: Go into your home folder (look around, in Finder, for the little house that probably has your name on it — know the home folder, love the home folder), so then into Home folder > Library > Caches, and delete the cache folder for whatever application is running slowly.

(BTW, Mac users should come to learn that the home folder can be represented by a tilde “~”.)

]]> By: Joe6paq http://j2mac.com/2007/02/incoming-mail-has-stopped-coming-in/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Joe6paq Tue, 01 May 2007 21:19:00 +0000 http://j2mac.com/?p=12#comment-7 Also, if Mail is a little sluggish, try the following:<br/>1 - Quit Mail<br/>2 - Launch Terminal (in a Utilities folder in your Applications folder)<br/>3 - enter this (copy and paste are your friends) sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/Envelope\ Index vacuum subjects;<br/><br/>Once your cursor comes back, type exit and launch Mail. <br/><br/>What does it do? It forces Mail to rebuild the database used to track email. You will save some drive space as it removes unnecessary records and rewrites everything in a logical order. And the new database will be a more efficient resource when Mail needs to use it. Less waste, more haste. Also, if Mail is a little sluggish, try the following:
1 – Quit Mail
2 – Launch Terminal (in a Utilities folder in your Applications folder)
3 – enter this (copy and paste are your friends) sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/Envelope\ Index vacuum subjects;

Once your cursor comes back, type exit and launch Mail.

What does it do? It forces Mail to rebuild the database used to track email. You will save some drive space as it removes unnecessary records and rewrites everything in a logical order. And the new database will be a more efficient resource when Mail needs to use it. Less waste, more haste.

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