I've used mail for over three years here as well, and have never had the sluggishness with it like Ray is describing. What I do, is I usually have a second user account set up that I can log into to test to see if it's anything specific in the particular user account that may be causing the sluggishness , or whatever the issue is i'm having. You might want to do the same thing, to see if mail is sluggish in your test account. On May 18, 2010, at 1:02 AM, Olivia Norman wrote: > I'm kind of stumped here, as well. It sounds like you've taken all the > logical steps, deleting your preferences, etc. Have you tried deleting your > accounts and starting over? This has resolved some issues I've experienced > with mail. > Good luck! > Olivia > On May 18, 2010, at 1:00 AM, Keith Reedy wrote: > >> Ray, >> >> I would love to help you here, but, I have never seen this kind of thing in >> mail and I have used it for over 5 years. It must be something simple, but, >> for the life of me, I don't know what it is. Can you take it in to an Apple >> store? >> >> Keith Reedy >> On May 17, 2010, at 10:56 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> On may 7th, I deleted my Ray/Library/Preferences/Com.Apple.mail file and >>> had to rebuild my mail account because Mail keeps getting sluggish on me >>> about every ten days or so. In fact, sometimes, it gets so bad that it >>> makes me wait about three to five minutes before I can do anything with it >>> at all. I'm getting tired of this and sure wish I had some notion of how >>> to either prevent it or quickly restore it to a more snappy response. If I >>> knew how to do a Time Machine back up I would try that, but, I went to the >>> disk utility ap and couldn't quite work out how to do a time Machine back >>> up. Is it done from the Disk Utility or Time Machine itself? Time Machine >>> itself doesn't appear that accessible. Thanks. >>> >>> >>> Sincerely, >>> The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!!! >>> >>> Now a proud Mac user!!!!! >>> >>> e-mail: >>> rforetjr at comcast dot net >>> skype: >>> barefootedray >>> >>>> >>>> Click on the link below to go to our homepage. >>>> http://www.icanworkthisthing.com >>>> >>>> Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. >>>> //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >>>> >>>> Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to >>>> macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>> with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web >>>> interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >>>> >> >>> >>> Click on the link below to go to our homepage. >>> http://www.icanworkthisthing.com >>> >>> Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. >>> //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >>> >>> Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to >>> macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web >>> interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >>> > >> >> Click on the link below to go to our homepage. >> http://www.icanworkthisthing.com >> >> Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. >> //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >> >> Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to >> macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web >> interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >> > > Click on the link below to go to our homepage. > http://www.icanworkthisthing.com > > Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. > //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover > > Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to > macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web > interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >