[MlMt] Apple Mail refugee, help feeling comfortable?

[Chaim Kram]

On 1 Feb 2026, at 19:00, mailmate-request at lists.freron.com 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
chaimk at umich.edu

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