![]() (I use Pages & Numbers day-to-day and don't really need Word/Excel.) But I don't want to shell out for it if won't. I'm happy to shell out for Microsoft Entourage if it's capable of handling the burden. I'd switch back, but I'm not 100% sure Thunderbird would be stable under this kind of load either. I switched to Mail from Thunderbird for a few reasons most of them probably don't apply anymore or aren't worth it. So before I start making sweeping changes to my workflow, I'd like to try to find an email client that's solid for the level of usage I have. It just seems insane to me for IMAP mailboxes to require 3x as much space (and four orders of magnitude more files) on the client as they do on the server. Hard drive speed seems like a possible factor as well this is on a MBP with a nearly full 120gb 5400RPM drive.Īs heavy as my mail load is, I feel Mail is handling it brutally inefficiently. I'm good friends with Mail's Activity window, and while I've seen my share of random rebuilds on folders that I'm pretty sure haven't changed, most of the "Gah! What are you waiting for?!" seems to come just as often from relatively innocuous-sounding actions like adding a message to an inbox with a grand total of three messages in it. Unfortunately, Apple Mail is all-or-nothing here as well.Įven so, I'm not sure it's the huge folders causing my problems. A lot of those huge folders are from prior years that could be easily unsubscribed almost all of the time, except Mail doesn't seem to support that.Īnother huge part of the problem is probably having to have "Keep copies of messages for offline viewing" set to "All messages and their attachments" because this is a laptop I need to have with me and I need to be able to get at *some* email offline, but certainly not all of it. Part of the problem seems to be that Apple Mail seems to keep local copies and indexes of everything, *and* it won't let me select which folders I want to subscribe to. Let me add that I do like Apple Mail just fine, and I would be perfectly happy with it if it weren't for the problems above. (All of these problems occur even if nothing else is running and Mail has free run of the 3gb in the machine.)
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