[NTLK] Mail V and MobileMe

Paul Grothaus pgrothaus at mac.com
Wed May 18 14:06:58 EDT 2011


Thanks, I figured it was just choking on the size of my inbox. 

So does Mail V need to inventory all the messages before it starts to download? I had several messages that had been there less than three days. It looked at these but did not download.

Paul

On May 18, 2011, at 12:55 PM, R A Parker wrote:

> Yes, you need to get your IMAP inbox down to a manageable level. Move everything older than a week to another folder, other than the main inbox. Just do a select all, move, select recent, move those back.
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> Mail V wants to inventory the messages in your mailbox and mark the messages (it has seen) as "read." This, of course, starts at the beginning of your inbox (circa 2002) and moves forward, one message at a time, until it reaches the end, today's messages.
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> The filters are working, ignoring older that 3 days, hence nothing in your Newton's mailbox.
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> Eventually, Mail V would touch all 6000 messages, but it tends to disconnect every 80-100 messages. Hitting stop helps, and then Mail V will pick up where it left off. Tedious. 
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> It is best to move everything out of the main inbox, unless you have the patience of a Saint.
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> P.S. Welcome back! Has it really been 10 years!? Surely not.
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> On May 18, 2011, at 7:06 AM, Paul Grothaus <pgrothaus at mac.com> wrote:
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>> There are over 6000 messages in the account and I think it tries to get them all and runs out of heap.
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>> I tried letting it process a couple dozen messages and tapping "stop" but after stopping there is nothing in my inbox.
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>> I've set Mail V's rule filters the same as with the empty account - to ignore anything over 3 days old or 10K in size - but that doesn't make a difference.
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>> Is my only option to pare down my account by eliminating old messages? I really hate to spend the time it would take.
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