I’ve found Mail to be much more snappy when I went to the Gmail website and limited the number of messages to 1000. I realize that not everyone is willing or able to do this, but I was, and aside from the occasional delayed syncing issues, things are workable for me in Mail now.
Teresa "The Golden Age of science fiction is twelve."--Pete Graham On Jan 20, 2014, at 10:09 PM, Nicholas Parsons <mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Bryan, > > First thing, about how many messages altogether do you have in gMail? Meaning > in your All Mail folder. If it's in the tens of thousands, or hundreds of > thousands, then I think I know what the problem is. > > Second, is your All Mail folder enabled for IMAP? It should be. > > I by no means an expert on this issue—I don't think anybody is. There seems > to be lots of different issues and neither Apple or much of the tech > community seems to really know or agree on what's going on. But what I think > is happening is that Mavericks Mail has to re-download and reconfigure every > message you have in gMail. Most of us have plenty of messages, easily in the > tens of thousands, and some people even have hundreds of thousands. So when > you launch Mail after recently installing Mavericks, if you show the activity > window with command-option-0, you'll notice that Mail is busy accessing the > gMail server and checking and downloading all your messages. Even for a > reasonably small account this can take a long time. I left my Mac online with > Mail running but nothing else for a couple of days. This seemed to allow it > to get up and running. So I'd suggest you close every application and stop as > many other online services as you can from operating, then just open Mail and > leave your Mac online for a good long time. Meaning at least 24 hours. Just > leave it, and don't do anything else with it, certainly not with Mail. > Configure your energy preferences so your Mac doesn't go to sleep. Check the > Mail activity every few hours to check that it's making progress. If it seems > to have frozen, quit it and re-launch. > > Best of luck, > Nic > > On 21 Jan 2014, at 12:04 pm, Brian Fischler <blindga...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hey all, >> >> Would love any advice from those of you not having any problems with Gmail >> and Macmail. After a day and a half of everything working fine, I had my >> busy busy problems again. I called Apple and spoke to their VoiceOver people >> and they kept insisting that my problem wasn’t a gmail and mac mail problem. >> I connected via remote session with Apple, and the specialist was claiming >> my issue was caused by my other mail account from go daddy. It took us a >> good hour to check settings, and mail was constantly caught in a busy loop, >> after that did nothing, I did a system repair which Apple felt would fix the >> mail busy issue. I am not going to go in to the bad set of instructions that >> Apple gave me for a VoiceOVer user to do a repair. So the repair finally >> finishes and as soon as I launch mail, busy busy busy. I decided to delete >> my gmail account from mail to see if mail worked with just my go daddy >> account, and sure enough mail worked fine, so bingo it is definitely a gmail >> problem. What angers me so much is Apple’s claim that the fix they released >> in December fixed the gmail and mac mail issue. The whole reason I held off >> upgrading to Mavericks was because of the gmail issue. Not sure how they can >> claim the issue is fixed when it is obviously gmail causing my problem. >> >> I do have a ton of email in gmail that I keep saved in folders, but this was >> never an issue with gmail and Lion. Does anyone have any suggestions? I >> deleted all my trash in mac mail, and this did nothing either. Anyone who >> has gone through something like this and figured out a fix would love to >> hear it. >> >> Thanks for listening. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
