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Mail tips

For my future reference. Taken from hawkwings.net

Get a considerable speed increase in Mail.app (and if you’re lucky, a smaller mailbox size as well) by performing certain Terminal commands.

  1. Quit Mail.app
  2. fire up Terminal
  3. Do/type the following:
$ sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/Envelope\ Index vacuum .exit

If for some reason the single line method won’t work, then do the following instead

$ cd ~/Library/Mail $ sqlite3 Envelope\ Index sqlite> vacuum subjects;

  1. Press Control-D to exit Terminal.

In case you didn’t know, the $ is your shell. Again Mail.app should NOT be running when you do this! 1 Never tried doing it with Mail.app running, so I can’t say what will happen if you do – but I personally don’t want to even try to find out. It’s also good practice to back up your ~/Library/Mail folder just in case. You have been warned

Notes

Notes
⇡1 Never tried doing it with Mail.app running, so I can’t say what will happen if you do – but I personally don’t want to even try to find out.
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Of the last 48 hours

Now you see it – now you don’t

Today was pretty boring – which wasn’t supposed to be the case since I got my powerbook back yesterday. But was pulled out again today.

Apparently when they said they’d do a full diagnostics check – they meant the opposite. I eventually opened up the laptop’s backplate and was staring down at two 512MB DIMMs – which is correct. So why do I mention it? Because the OS is only reporting 512MB of RAM instead of a gig! At least they were commited to replacing the logic board.

Once that’s done, I will now be able to enumerate the stuff that hasn’t been replaced:

  1. Superdrive.
  2. LCD shell (the LCD itself has been replaced)
  3. Keyboard.
  4. All inner-components except for the logic board.
  5. Battery.
  6. RAM DIMMs

Can’t help but wonder if I had just saved all of those, and just asked for a new MacBook or something hehehe – I can dream can’t I? Sobrang na-sulit ko na yung warranty. – and still got a whole year to go! Read More