Thanks for the response and clarification, Benny. Good to know about the `Messages` folder.
I'll go ahead and do a fresh install, then. -Adam > On Jul 25, 2017, at 09:45, Benny Kjær Nielsen <mailingl...@freron.com> wrote: > > On 24 Jul 2017, at 23:34, Adam Liter wrote: > > FWIW, the sluggishness seems to be triggered by talking to the FastMail > servers. I quit MailMate and reopened in order to be able to compose the > email that I just sent. As soon as it started sending, MailMate became really > sluggish. As I write this email, it takes about two-three seconds for each > keystroke to register, sometimes longer. > > I think that's because MailMate is looking for emails which have mysteriously > gone away. (Deleting emails in the database is distributed over time and > therefore this can go on for a long time if a lot of emails have disappeared > from disk.) > > On 24 Jul 2017, at 17:30, Adam Liter wrote: > About a year later, I finally got around to setting up 2FA with FastMail and > using app specific passwords. Because of the experiences that others > mentioned in this thread, I ended up deleting my previous FastMail IMAP > account in MailMate as well as deleting the messages in > `~/Library/Application Support/MailMate/Messages/IMAP/`. > > You shouldn't have done that last part. Never let anything but MailMate > remove or add any files in the Messages folder. It is to be considered to be > a private database which is just saved in a very readable format/hierarchy. > > I'm probably going to reinstall MailMate and see if starting fresh helps, as > mentioned in this thread. > > That's unfortunately also the only way to fix it now. You can keep the .plist > files to make it easier (in ~/Library/Application Support/MailMate/). > > However, I wanted mention this in case there's anything I could do to help > debug this, Benny, while I'm still experiencing the problem. > > Thanks! > > -- > Benny > > _______________________________________________ > mailmate mailing list > mailmate@lists.freron.com > https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
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