[MlMt] sluggist Mailmate - how to optimise?

[Bill Cole]

On 4 Oct 2019, at 14:01, Jason Davies wrote:

> I accidentally have an update on this.
>
>
> Firstly, OMM switching off 'Recipient headers' in 'Auto-completion 
> Sources' did seem to speed Mailmate up, but it didn't speed *me* up 
> because I discovered how much I rely on it;)

You can get part of the benefit for little cost by tuning the contents 
of the mailbox being used for auto-completion. For example, instead of 
using the default "Sent Messages" mailbox, I use a smart mailbox that 
contains only messages from Sent Messages that are less than a year old. 
This also improves the quality of auto-completion, so I don't have a 
dozen minor (display name) variants of the same wrong address as the top 
hits. With mailing lists increasingly moving to "munged" From headers, 
this is a growing problem for me.


> Switching in back on left me with some delays (but as I said, I think, 
> I've improved my hardware and it's improved the delays). However at 
> some point Mailmate just got locked this afternoon and after an hour I 
> had to not only force-quit it but eventually force shut-down the whole 
> mac, which wouldn't restart.

That sounds like a problem much larger than MM, e.g. corrupted 
filesystem or flaky disk.

-- 
Bill Cole
bill at scconsult.com or billcole at apache.org
(AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)
Not Currently Available For Hire