[OSX-Users] Re: [iOS-Users] mail on yosemite slow/clunky?

[m.c. schraefel]

An apple thread suggests


Richard, I too was troubled by this until I discovered that under Preferences -> Viewing there is a button that is seem to be checked by default "Include related messages". Uncheck this and all will be back to the way it was before.


Others have reported success w this to the vlad/tim problem



m.c. schraefel, phd., cscs, ceng, fbcs
@mcphoo

sent from some glass surfaced device - apologies for weird phrasings that may result

> On 3 Mar 2015, at 16:06, Tim Chown <tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>> On 2 Mar 2015, at 18:43, Vladimiro Sassone <vsassone at soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> (Even tho this is the list of iOS, not OS X,) Mail.app was fantastic but
>> itąs now seriously misbehaving re attachment. Yosemite has forced me to
>> use outlook, which is a serious defeat. Itąs sluggish and slow, but at
>> least it works.
>> 
>> Mail.app under Yosemite in not slow for me, speed is about the only thing
>> that is ok with it. For the rest, it messes up attachments badly (does not
>> remove them, when it does might garble the entire message forever). It
>> messes up threads, including unrelated messages (that eg may be have a
>> similar subject). I have rebuilt the index many times, doesnąt help, the
>> only thing that works (till the next attachment is removed, of course) is
>> to remove the account altogether and then readd it, so that all messages
>> and attachment are downloaded again from the server. Or alternatively, use
>> OutlookŠ
> 
> I see similar things - Mac mail threads mixed up, which means I can no longer ever delete a thread without expanding it for fear of deleting an ‘important’ email.
> 
> There’s no apparent pattern. I’d assumed the threading was done by Message-ID and In-Reply-To headers, but that’s clearly not happening here. Mac Mail is trying to be cleverer, somehow. 
> 
> This article seems relevant. I guess I need to disable View by Conversation, which from an email management efficiency point of view is very bad.
> https://support.apple.com/kb/PH19153?locale=en_US&viewlocale=en_US
> 
> Or is there a fix?
> 
> Tim
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