Hey Chaim, Have you thought of archiving your old(er) emails off line?
I began archiving my email to external resources using the app EagleFiler which with Mailmate Export outputs message content with or without attachments from the Server(s). EagleFiler app allows me to view and search emails within the app as needed! EagleFiler is very good at filtering duplicate emails during incremental updating, BTW. So I keep two years worth of email on line in MailMate by account and the rest offline in it is exact form in Archives. The servers and MailMate are very good at parsing my quantity of two years on line. BTW, I also filter my junk mail out and delete those emails during the year using SpamSieve from the same author, [C-Command Software](https://c-command.com/). That reduces the .eml file load considerably. Every year I export and update my storage. So far, so good. I have 2010-2025 in some accounts. Previous to that date I wasn’t saving any old email due to slowdown issues you mention (common on all email clients). Now I do on 10 accounts from various server platforms all using MailMate. Respectfully, Henry Seiden - - Techworks Pro Co. E: info<at>techworkspro<dot>com W: http://techworkspro.com On 4 Feb 2026, at 2:14, Chaim Kram wrote: > On 1 Feb 2026, at 19:00, [email protected] wrote: > >> Typing in the To: field is often very slow (10 sec beach ball of death >> stall). I think it's because it's trying to load and cache all the >> typeahead options from contacts, sent mail, etc... After loading once >> it's good and fast for a bit (while it's cached I'm guessing) and then >> it's slow again. This was never an issue in Apple Mail. How can I speed >> it up here? > > This one I can help with. I solved this permanently by creating a smart > mailbox inside the Sent Messages folder. This smart mailbox contains a recent > subset of sent mail (the past year, in my case, but you can set it however > you want). > > Then I went to MailMate > Settings > Composer > Auto-Completion Sources, and > in the 3rd checkbox I use “All address headers” in [my new smart mailbox]. > This way it’s only searching the last year’s worth of sent mail instead of > the more than 20 years I’ve accumulated! This also helps with filtering out > old email addresses. > > Hope this helps. > > -- > Chaim Kram > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > mailmate mailing list > Unsubscribe: https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
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