350k email messages is nothing. I have just below 2 million. 12k added each month, approximately.
There is something happening at startup that takes very long time. And I am interesting in knowing what happens. Patrik On 6 Feb 2016, at 19:43, Helen Holzgrafe wrote: > Hi, > > Also, if you have Apple's "Activity Monitor" (inside the Applications/Utility > folder) running when you start up Mailmate, you can directly see that > Mailmate is using 100% of your computer's available CPU cycles during its > startup. > > That's why a Mailmate Startup window that shows some form of progress bar, > the name of each folder as it is being processed, or "25 of 300 Smart Folders > verified" or some other indicator gives the user faith that MailMate is > actually doing something and not hanging. This window also gives some clue as > to how long until MailMate is done with start up. > > -Helen > > On 6 Feb 2016, at 10:04, Helen Holzgrafe wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have a partial explanation from my experience. I have around 350000 mail >> messages, mostly archived, and quite a few smart mailboxes. For a while it >> was taking over 10 minutes to start up, which was getting incredibly >> annoying. I used the following method to get the time down to a manageable >> 30 seconds. >> >> I created essentially two archives. I have 50000 or so messages in the >> regular archive. These messages I actually want to search a lot and create >> smart folders from. I also created another folder inside the real archive >> folder that I call "Deep Archive". This is not a smart folder, but an actual >> iMAP folder. It contains around 300000 messages I must keep, but I don't >> expect to search or create smart folders from. >> >> Then, I created a smart folder called "All Accounts - No Deep Archive" which >> contains all messages in all of my accounts and excludes the "Deep Archive" >> folder. Now all my smart folders use "All Accounts - No Deep Archive" for >> the Mailboxes to search in (the first tab on "edit Mailbox" window). I no >> longer search "All Messages" for each smart mailbox. Just in case it >> matters, which I do not know for sure, I also placed this smart folder at >> the top of my folder list so the odds are greater that it will be created >> first before all the other smart folders. Only Benny can tell us if this >> placement at the top actually helped. >> >> Why does this work? My educated guess: >> >> My guess is that Mailmate somehow must be recreating the contents lists for >> each smart mailbox on the fly each time it starts up, rather than keeping >> that as part of its database all the time. Very time consuming at start up, >> but it does guarantee accuracy. >> >> Remember that messages can come in or you can mess directly with your IMAP >> folders while MailMate is not running. So Mailmate must do something at >> start up to make sure all those smart folders have correct information. The >> problem for me was that it was searching 350000 messages for every smart >> folder that used "All messages" as the mailbox it searched through. That's >> a lot of messages. >> >> I also think Mailmate was also thrashing in some fashion trying to bring >> that many messages in and out for search. So, I also suspect that how much >> RAM memory you have in your machine will also affect how much MailMate goes >> into overdrive to get this start up done. >> >> It might be good for Benny to put up a window during this startup that shows >> how much time it is spending creating your smart folders or some other >> method of letting you you that it's actually working and not actually "not >> responding" as the operating system reports. >> >> Benny, how close did I come to explaining this problem correctly? >> >> -Helen >> >> On 6 Feb 2016, at 9:12, John Cooper wrote: >> >>> Have you tried uninstalling MailMate, including its support folders, and >>> then reinstalling it? >>> >>> Patrik Fältström wrote (at 8:54 on 6 Feb 2016): >>> >>>> On 6 Feb 2016, at 17:45, John Cooper wrote: >>>> >>>>> Patrik Fältström wrote (at 4:01 on 6 Feb 2016): >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> When starting MailMate it does something. For a very long time. >>>>>> >>>>>> What's up? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> What's it say in the Activity Viewer while this is happening? (Window > >>>>> Show Activity Viewer) >>>> >>>> There is nothing, no response even from the application. No menus nothing. >>>> "Application not responding" in the mach kernel although it do send events. >>>> >>>> Patrik >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> mailmate mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate >>> _______________________________________________ >>> mailmate mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate >> _______________________________________________ >> mailmate mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate > _______________________________________________ > mailmate mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
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