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

[m.c. schraefel]

your problems are just too good for the common apple support crowd

> On 3 Mar 2015, at 17:19, Tim Chown <tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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>> On 3 Mar 2015, at 17:12, m.c. schraefel <mc at ecs.soton.ac.uk <mailto:mc at ecs.soton.ac.uk>> wrote:
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>> An apple thread suggests
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>> 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.
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>> Others have reported success w this to the vlad/tim problem
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> Seems to have helped Jon H, but I already had this unchecked :/
> 
> Tim
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>> m.c. schraefel, phd., cscs, ceng, fbcs
>> @mcphoo
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>> sent from some glass surfaced device - apologies for weird phrasings that may result
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>> On 3 Mar 2015, at 16:06, Tim Chown <tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk <mailto:tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk>> wrote:
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>>>> On 2 Mar 2015, at 18:43, Vladimiro Sassone <vsassone at soton.ac.uk <mailto: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 <https://support.apple.com/kb/PH19153?locale=en_US&viewlocale=en_US>
>>> 
>>> Or is there a fix?
>>> 
>>> Tim
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