On Dec 1, 2014, at 12:27 PM, Dan C <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Sooo... I switched from Eudora to Apple Mail and am having a few growing > pains. > (QuickSilver 2002, Leopard) > > I used EudoraMailboxCleaner, rebuilt the resulting mailboxes in Apple Mail, > and got most of my filters er a rules working. > > My first impression of Apple Mail was that it's a POS because it was > abysmally slow. Turns out that to rebuild a mailbox, Mail opens each and > every message for *writing*, not just reading - so when they're closed, > fseventer throws them at ClamXav and Splotchlight for that unnecessary 2nd > and 3rd rescan. Splotchlight, of course, goes into convulsions from being > given so much work to do, mangles its indexing, and throws thousands and > thousands of errors at the console, which then requires several cpu hours of > the logger process futzing around. sigh. So I beat it all with a stick, > disabled Clam and Splotch, let the rebuilds finish (21 years worth of mail!) > then let Splotchlight spend the night reindexing from scratch.
Well, to be honest, moving to a modern version of the OS will help a great deal...the computer is 12 years old, the os is what, 7? With Snow Leopard (iirc) Apple moved from monolithic .mbox mail files to .eml files in directories, which speeds up message management by a gazillion times. Spotlight was vastly improved over the years. I have users with tens of thousands of emails in their mailboxes and normal performance. Spotlight actually works now :-) It's quite useful, and I haven't seen a machine bog down with indexing in a dogs age. Apple's made a lot of improvements over the years. > > Ok - the questions: > > Other than installing a newer WebKit system-wide (which has stability > issues), is there an "easy" way to point Mail to using a newer build? The > newer builds are much faster at displaying image heavy messages. > No really, because Mail is calling the system Webkit libs; again 'getting a newer version of the OS' and, hence, moving to an Intel system is a surefire way to improve performance. > How do I tell Apple Mail to throw a message to my default browser? Now and > then, "friends" (peecee users) send me poorly formatted html messages that > get mangled by WebKit. I know by previous experience that if I throw them at > a non-webkit browser (eg: TenFourFox), they display just fine. In Eudora, I > did this by selecting the message then hitting an "open in browser" button. > What is the equivalent for Apple Mail? There really isn't one; because Mail is using (theoretically) the same engine as the default web browser. Of course, since your system Webkit version is ancient, you'll run into issues. > > How do I quickly grab in-line photos? Some people send me messages that > contain dozens of photos. They're in-line - dragged into the message body, > not "regular" attachments. In Eudora, they appeared as files in Eudora's > "Parts" folder - easy to grab from Finder. Where does Apple Mail stash them? > I know that in current versions of mail there's a kind of pop-up menu that will let me select any or all attachments to save. <https://www.dropbox.com/s/4pojrv6fatugfvu/mail%20attachments%20menu.png?dl=0> IIRC there were attachments buttons in the tool bars that did the same thing. Explore the toolbar customization menu, there's a bunch of useful tools that aren't in the standard set. > How do I create a rule to move sent messages to their appropriate mailbox? > I'm accumulating mailing list replies and such in the Sent mailbox. I'd like > them to automagically move to the right mailbox, to keep the threads intact. I'm pretty sure if you add a rule to the Sent mailbox you should be able to do what you want. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are." B. Banzai, PhD -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
