Comments on: Mail Vacuum

By: Shauna Kinney

Shauna Kinney — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:40:14 +0000

Wow! Nice. Finally, I can use mail without fumbling around for the terminal and the vacuum script! SWWEEEEET.

By: JC

JC — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 06:42:55 +0000

YES YES YES YES!

Holy cow... this is the greatest little app I've ever seen.

Why doesn't apple just make my mac do this on its own?

The improvement in speed was INSTANT and AMAZING.

By: Edo

Edo — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 18:28:38 +0000

Wonderfull, wonderfull!! my Mail.app was getting soooo slow I was thinking of trying other email applications. Thought Mail couldnt handle that many emails.... Now, after using this Mail runs as smooth as when i started using it. No more waiting 15 secs when looking into another folder. And after this cleanup the envelope file is still +50 MB which, i get the impression, is quite big...

thanks!

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 17:57:58 +0000

Jim - I had removed the Quit action for that reason (which I didn't realize was a 3rd party action, available here), and replaced it with the same Applescript step you posted.

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 17:49:52 +0000

Automator complained about a missing Quit Application (or something like that). So I replaced it with another Run Shell Script using:

osascript -e 'tell app "Mail" to quit'

I suppose this could be added to the part that runs the sqlite3 command.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 20:46:09 +0000

Oops, I had uploaded the wrong version. The correct one is up, with quit/relaunch Mail. Sorry about that.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 16:48:08 +0000

Wish your workflow included quitting and reopening Mail around the sqlite command.

By: Kevin Donahue

Kevin Donahue — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 15:03:28 +0000

Thanks for this. I was going to set up my own, but now I don’t have to! :)