Dec 23, '04 08:21:00AM • Contributed by: Anonymous
Yesterday, the surprise: by accident, I sorted one huge folder by date from newest to oldest (that is, the opposite direction that Mail.app defaults to), and Mail.app suddenly started opening these folders in a blink of an eye!
[robg adds: I don't have any mail folders with that many messages; I do have a few with 2,000+ messages, and I haven't noticed any delays in opening the folders. I suspect the issue here might be resolved by rebuilding the indexes for the mailboxes in question -- but since this was an anonymous submission without contact info (please help me out by including an email address even if you're contributing anonymously!), I can't discuss it with the author. But if anyone out there is running Mail with similarly large collections of messages, please confirm or rebut this hint...]
