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Way behind on a bunch of stuff to post. But I really need to remember this for my own uses since it seems to have improved the performance of Mail.app under 10.5 (which had become so slow it was very frustrating to use and taking up way too much of my time.)
1. Quit Mail.app
2. Back up Mail just in case (i.e., copy ~/Library/Mail to somewhere safe)
3. in Terminal type:
sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/Envelope\ Index4. Still in Terminal, at the sqlite> prompt, type:
vacuum subjects;and wait for the sqlite> prompt to return (several minutes in my case.)
5. Ctrl-d to drop out of sqlite3 back into terminal
6. Restart Mail.app
Huge speed improvement for me.