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2007.03.03 9:09 AM

For my future reference. Taken from hawkwings.net

Get a considerable speed increase in Mail.app (and if you’re lucky, a smaller mailbox size as well) by performing certain Terminal commands.

  1. Quit Mail.app
  2. fire up Terminal
  3. Do/type the following:
$ sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/Envelope\ Index vacuum .exit

If for some reason the single line method won’t work, then do the following instead

$ cd ~/Library/Mail $ sqlite3 Envelope\ Index sqlite> vacuum subjects;

  1. Press Control-D to exit Terminal.

In case you didn’t know, the $ is your shell. Again Mail.app should **NOT** be running when you do this!1 It’s also good practice to back up your ~/Library/Mail folder just in case. You have been warned

    1. Never tried doing it with Mail.app running, so I can’t say what will happen if you do – but I personally don’t want to even try to find out.

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