Mail still running the CPU

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Created Jun ’15

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I stopped using it for a while when its performance with GMail accounts went bananas. It kept thinking there were millions of messages to download.

When I installed 10.11, I figured I would try it again. For the most part, it is improved. It for sure looks like that problem was fixed.

That said, I still hear the fan on my laptop a lot and look to see Mail chewing on the CPU for no good reason.

I have mails going back to 2004. I wish this app was smart enough to not download everything. Maybe that's not the reason it's performance is abysmal. Before ditching it again, I thought I would ask for some opinions. I could move all the mail to a box and archive it, but then I would have to go delete it from Google which seems insane. This does not seem like a problem that should have a company of Apple's size tied up in knots over the span of many releases.

Maybe they let the Adobe guy who did Flash takeover mail when he joined and burning up millions of dollars of energy doing nothing is just habitual for him.

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Max108 OP

Jun ’15

I have 5 Gmail accounts synced with Mail, the oldest going almost as far back as yours. I don't know what changes have been made under the hood but, superficially, mail is contained in the V2 folder in my 10.10.4 partition, and V3 on 10.11 DP2. One machine I upgraded, rather than do a fresh install on, had both -clearly V2 migrated to V3 - and I noticed some odd Mail behaviour for a couple of days before deleting that install for other reasons.

I've found DP2 to be clearly superior over 10.10.3 in this regard - much snappier navigating and I'm in the habit of checking activity when I notice the fans crank up a notch - but the cuplrit has never yet been Mail.

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