Why is Mail Synchronisation so slow?

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Is it Apple's fault or what? I'm using a Hotmail account, by the way.

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p.s: there's nothing wrong with my connection, I've tested downloads on several servers and it is working as it should.
 
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It involves optimizing the SQLite database Apple Mail uses to store indexes and subject lines of emails.
You can check your current 'envelope archive' size by entering this in the terminal:
ls -lah ~/Library/Mail/Envelope\ Index

Then to optimise it (cleans out stuff that has been marked for deletion but not actually deleted, defragments the structure, etc):
sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/Envelope\ Index vacuum;

Then check your envelope archive size again to see the results…
ls -lah ~/Library/Mail/Envelope\ Index

In terms of size the decrease will not be huge, but you will probably notice a dramatic increase in speed.


Hope this helps, Ibanezi
 

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