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[diegie]

I used to have 6 IMAP accounts on it when I first installed it.
Then I saw the CPU problem and uninstalled the app. A few days later I downloaded it again and only added one IMAP account, but I still happens.
So I don't think that could be the problem either. 🙁

 

[simonsi]

I used to have 6 IMAP accounts on it when I first installed it.
Then I saw the CPU problem and uninstalled the app. A few days later I downloaded it again and only added one IMAP account, but I still happens.
So I don't think that could be the problem either. 🙁

Except if the 1 account now is the same one causing the issue before, to know you would have to configure 1 of the other 5 accounts (perferab;y on a different provider, and unconfigure the account you have there now, allow the new account to sync and see if it uses lots of cpu then....

 

[diegie]

Except if the 1 account now is the same one causing the issue before, to know you would have to configure 1 of the other 5 accounts (perferab;y on a different provider, and unconfigure the account you have there now, allow the new account to sync and see if it uses lots of cpu then....

I had Airmail on the whole night (for 4 hours) and it was still the same.
If you close Airmail (but not completely stop), the CPU is almost fine. From the moment I have it open (and leave it open for 10, 20, 30 minutes) the CPU goes up and down again.

I also removed the account and added another one (and one gmail), but still the same...

 

[simonsi]

If you close Airmail (but not completely stop), the CPU is almost fine.

What do you mean here, if you hide Airmail but don't quite the CPU is ok? If so that indicates possible issues with displaying the App, not the underlying IMAP etc processes.

 

[diegie]

What do you mean here, if you hide Airmail but don't quite the CPU is ok? If so that indicates possible issues with displaying the App, not the underlying IMAP etc processes.

Yes, if I hide it (but not stop it) the CPU is ok. If I open it again (and do nothing), the CPU goes up and down...

 

[simonsi]

Yes, if I hide it (but not stop it) the CPU is ok. If I open it again (and do nothing), the CPU goes up and down...

Then I would step through then Preferences looking for anything graphical or external (e.g. Spam sieve, which I don't use), and try disabling one item at a time and see if the CPU settles down.

 

[cyb3rdud3]

What you said in the last paragraph is exactly what I thought. The thing about push notifications is that you don't need the app to be open in order to get a notification from it.

I just don't like apps running in the background with no reason. Seems odd that push notifications require to run in the background on the Mac while all smartphones implement the concept of push notifications perfectly.

????? How do you think the notification and thus message is being received? There is still an app running in the background that does that work to transfer the message from the server onto your local device and then display a notification. I don't get what the issue is in just leaving it running?

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the only problem I have with Mail is that I'd prefer to send pictures/attachments as an actual attachment rather than in-line and I can't find anywhere to change that behavior

Close mail
Open a terminal and write

defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes

To revert

defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool false

 

[simonsi]

Yes, if I hide it (but not stop it) the CPU is ok. If I open it again (and do nothing), the CPU goes up and down...

Just came home, opened Mac and Airmail started using 95-125% cpu (hadn't noticed anything unusual during the day). I couldn't see anything obvious other than it was using 4GB of virtual memory.

I closed and restarted the app and back to usual <1% cpu and 150MB of memory - even with the startup-sync activity so this definitely points to the app getting stuck on something during normal operation from time-to-time, at that level it may be a big, sudden memory leak and the cpu could come from that 😱

 

[diegie]

Just came home, opened Mac and Airmail started using 95-125% cpu (hadn't noticed anything unusual during the day). I couldn't see anything obvious other than it was using 4GB of virtual memory.

I closed and restarted the app and back to usual <1% cpu and 150MB of memory - even with the startup-sync activity so this definitely points to the app getting stuck on something during normal operation from time-to-time, at that level it may be a big, sudden memory leak and the cpu could come from that 😱

See, they have some serious work to do on the app still... 🙂

 

[simonsi]

See, they have some serious work to do on the app still... 🙂

I didn't doubt you - that is the first I've noticed like that and it has been normal since. As it didn't crash there isn't anything to give them diagnostic-wise either 🙁

 

[cassini007]

Cached Exchange Support on OS X

Does anyone know of any OS X mail client that supports Cached Exchange Mode (i.e. retrieving only emails within a given time period, such as past week, month, etc.).

Microsoft Outlook on Windows has had this functionality since the 2007 version, but even the latest Outlook for the Mac lacks it.