Why hate the new Mac Mail

Shrug. It's a beta. If that happens in the release version start complaining... or don't use it.

 

I'm not seeing a problem with my mail install. In fact considering it is a preview, not even a beta, it is running fine for me.

 

Is it a fresh install? or have you had it installed for a bit and it just started to act up? Is it IMAP accounts? Are they importing mail? Not really sure.

 

I only see about 600 messages when I click on my inbox. Those are from about 12 IMAP accounts. The rest are in folders and won't show up unless I expand the individual accounts, so I can't speak to 12,000 emails in one account, but it does not seem like a large amount. Once they are imported, there should not be such a high usage. I would file a bug report.

 

I'm not sure. It can't hurt. What you are seeing is excessive by any measure. There have been some applications that don't work for me, but considering it is a preview it has been remarkably stable for me.
Perhaps, move your mail folder to your desktop and start mail fresh or Rebuild the mailbox from within mail.

 

No problem. Maybe someone else who has that much mail can offer a suggestion.

 

Typically Apple OS X beta's aren't compiled yet for debugging and allowing core applications full system access. I had a similar issue with Safari in Lion. On my 2010 3.33 GHz 6-Core Mac Pro it slammed my CPU's and RAM, I couldn't even restart finder and had to do a hard reset.

Keep in mind, this isn't even a beta, but a very rough developer preview. Sometime this week, expect the official first release of Lion OS 10.7 beta. Apple is recompiling Lion from a months worth of developer feedback and bug reports.

 

That would be very nice. But what, might I ask, makes you think there will be a beta coming out this week? I'm looking forward to some bug fixes and I'm curious how the update process will go.

 

I don't think anyone outside of Apple knows for sure, but the "rumor" is the 24th because it has been a month since the Feb initial release.

 

That would be nice. I guess time flies. I never realized how close it's getting to the summer and the final release. I guess I'll just pray that they make it available through software update instead of a whole new installer.

 

I'm guessing they will release via the Apple Store again, just because I think it will be the first beta. Getting closer to summer I would expect changes to be shifted to a Software Update. Just my two cents.

 

That's what I'm expecting too... But it would be nice making it faster and easier... Plus... Not all of us got it with a Developer account...

 

No offense, but I wonder why the newbies are overreacting to CPU/Memory/Battery usage in a developer release.

 

More like: It's a Beta, report the bug, as you still have a chance to make yourself heard. Once it goes final no one will listen.

 

I have over 15000 messages in my Inbox and Mail isn't using much more than 100mb.

 

Annnd that's why I hope they make it another app store release.

 

Does it still ask you for your SMTP password ENDLESSLY if you try to use more than one gmail account in it at the same time lol...