Comments on: Mail Vacuum

By: Gottfried Auer

Gottfried Auer — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:21:30 +0000

My Mail problems are fixed, thanks on the programmer.

By: Fix Mail.app Search Issues and Speed Up Apple Mail with This Simple Script | HighTechDad Blog

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:23:36 +0000

[...] want to tie it to a Calendar event to run every month or so. The Automator script can be downloaded here. From what I can tell, it simply runs the “vaccum;” command on everything. To set up [...]

By: Daily Review #7 | The Queue Blog

Daily Review #7 | The Queue Blog — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:26:06 +0000

[...] I also got a tip from #macosx to google around for “mail vacuum sqlite3″ and found an automator script to take care of that for [...]

By: Jorritsma

Jorritsma — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:18:08 +0000

Is this safe also with current Mail in Leopard? I see that this is quite a while ago and perhaps there are updates?

By: Power up your Mail experience | Smoking Apples

Power up your Mail experience | Smoking Apples — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 08:30:27 +0000

[...] has created a clever Automator (based on an AppleScript no longer available) workflow “Mail Vacuum“ that cleans out the Mail storage database thereby improving the performance of the Mail [...]

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!