My favorite application on my mac is of course mail.app, but as you can see from prior threads, I’ve been having some issues!   Mail.app just gets, boggled down, my “Envelope Index” grows up to 20MB and mail.app starts to fall apart and SLOW down. 

So I recently found the All Mail folder on my gmail account, it had a crazy 30+ thousand messages.  Here is the quick fix! 

I’m going to link this to macosxhints.

A while ago I started having a lot of problems with one IMAP account I have configured in mail.app on my mac.
I took the standard approach to delete the account, re-create it, and so on. You can see from prior posts, I ran cli maintenance on the sqllite3 database that mail.app uses.

I got fed up and decided to try something, I would delete the Envelope Index file. The file was around 30mb in size, not huge, but decent size.
When I started mail.app back up, it had to understandably rebuild each of the mailboxes I have configured. When it finished, it is now only 10mb in size, you think there might have been some corruption?

This years Christmas and New Years spam have been hitting at a high rate!   We are seeing millions of these tiny two line spams hit (we are blocking all of them).

Stuff like:

——-{message body}——-

New Hop and New Beginnings…

http://hellosanta2008.com/

——-{end message body}——-

I’m going to work on some regex to pick up a url with 2008.com in it to block even more.