Archiving e-mails in Apple Mail

[cwedl]

Hi, Guys/Gals

I use apple mail and currently have 29,000 e-mails in there, the problem is I need to access them all the time so deleting is not an option. my mail app is extremely slow, is there a way to speed up the performance of this app.

Thanks in advance...

 

[swiftaw]

Try this: http://www.hawkwings.net/2007/03/01/a-faster-way-to-speed-up-mailapp/

 

[cwedl]

Try this: http://www.hawkwings.net/2007/03/01/a-faster-way-to-speed-up-mailapp/

That looks promising I will give that a go.

Thank you.

 

[Mhaddy]

Just wanted to chime in and say that the tutorial swiftaw linked to works really, really well. I don't have quite 29,000 emails, but I have a fair share and noticed a big speed boost after optimizing the Envelope index. Great tip!

 

[Cavemate K]

I'm kind of new to the Mail experience. What exactly is "archiving?" Thanks.

 

[swiftaw]

I'm kind of new to the Mail experience. What exactly is "archiving?" Thanks.

The thread title was misleading. The OP was really looking for a way for speeding up mail when you have a large number of messages.

Archiving is another word for backing-up. Usually it means transferring some of your old messages to offline storage to free up some space.