[MlMt] MailMate slowness?!

[Angelo Machils]

Hello,


On 14 Oct 2019, at 16:54, Angelo Machils wrote:

>>>> I just got a secondhand MB Air (2015) and of course installed 
>>>> MailMate. I have had a (very) similar machine before, but I can’t 
>>>> really remember if MailMate was so slow on that as well.
>> I have a very similar setup except mine's an early 2013 MBP, and I 
>> have also noticed some slowness ever since I upgraded from El Capitan 
>> to Mojave.  The first time I launched MailMate after the OS upgrade, 
>> I saw spinning beachballs at startup and the first few times I opened 
>> smart mailboxes, but since then it's settled into being poky but not 
>> beachbally.
>>
>> I assumed it was because I'm storing just over 283,200 messages in 
>> total, but based on this thread, maybe there's more to it than that.  
>> I see the most slowness in rendering the message view as I navigate 
>> from message to message in my main smartbox, and in opening the reply 
>> window for any message with more than a couple of layers of nested 
>> quotes (people at work just will not give up the top-reply format).
>
> My email number is nowhere near such an amount (about 2000 in total 
> across 3 different G Suite/Gmail accounts). I have set everything now 
> to ‘plain text’, so no MD preview and the reply just plain text, 
> but alas, no change. Even without the preview, I type faster than 
> I’m seeing the characters appear. It’s also not like the message 
> I’m replying to is so large. It’s not like it’s unworkable, but 
> it’s also far from pleasant :)
> Updating to the latest beta release (5656) from the latest stable 
> (5655 I think) also doesn’t change anything.

It seems to be linked to HTML/MD support. I found a few more settings, 
disabling all HTML/MD/preview support and then everything I noticed as 
lagging/slow is now ‘snappy’. Not ideal, but at least more useable. 
Let’s hope this gets fixed soon :)


Regards,

Angelo Machils