mail slow to open

[RUQRU]

Apple Mail on Monterey 12.5.1 over the past week was taking about a minute to open with a spinning beach ball. Was driving me nuts. I searched these forums and this thread and post is what solved it for me. Of course this is after I wasted time rebuilding all my mailboxes which did nothing except reduce the mailbox size in my Library folder.

YES! That works. I did not use the command, just backed up the old file and deleted it. When you re-open Mail a new plist file of 321 bytes is created.

All you have to do is go to this path in your Home directory and delete the "Properties.plist" file:
~/Library/Application Support/Mail/Plug-ins/Bundles/Library/Mail/Bundles/Properties.plist

 

[plunger]

We had this issue with Mac Mail Client and we did the following. It has fixed the issue.

Create & use App Passwords
1. Go to your Google Account. https://myaccount.google.com/
2. Select Security.
3. Under "Signing in to Google," select App Passwords. You may need to sign in.
4. At the bottom, choose Select app (Mail) and choose the app you using > Select device (Mac) and choose the device you're using and then Generate.
5. Follow the instructions to enter the App Password. The App Password is the 16-character code in the yellow bar on your device.
6. Tap Done.


Mac Mail Client Configuration
1. From the menu bar in Mail, choose Mail > Add Account.
2. Select your email provider from the list as other mail account, then click Continue.
3. use 16-character code (app password) instead of google account password press sign in and it would end up with asking IMAP/SMTP settings.
4. set IMAP and SMTP as follows
-Incoming Mail (IMAP) Server: imap.gmail.com
-Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server: smtp.gmail.com

The suggestions around turning off imap labels didn't work for me.

This works!!!