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email very slow downloading messages

Hi my email has suddenly started taking ages to download new messages IE 5 to 10 minutes. I have another Gmail account thats synced to this account and ive just deleted a couple of thousand old emails from 5 years ago. All emails come to my phone straight away just my iMac thats slow. Thanks for any replies.

Posted on Jul 20, 2020 3:32 AM

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Posted on Jul 20, 2020 5:29 AM

Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at startup), does the problem occur in Safe Mode?


Safe mode attempts to repair Disks & clears lots of caches & loads safe Drivers, & prevents loading of 3rd party extensions, so if Safe Mode works try again in regular boot.


If you have no POP accounts & they’re all IMAP accounts then in Mail’s Mailbox menu choose Rebuild.

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Jul 20, 2020 5:29 AM in response to kammx3566

Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at startup), does the problem occur in Safe Mode?


Safe mode attempts to repair Disks & clears lots of caches & loads safe Drivers, & prevents loading of 3rd party extensions, so if Safe Mode works try again in regular boot.


If you have no POP accounts & they’re all IMAP accounts then in Mail’s Mailbox menu choose Rebuild.

email very slow downloading messages

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