Speeding up Apple Mail by Vacuuming?…..

Apple Mail, especially earlier versions of Apple Mail, may start to slow down after a long period of time… Evidently as everyone knows, it is possible to get quite a speed boost out of Mail.app by stripping all the bloat out of its Envelope index, an SQLite database Mail uses to store senders, recipients, subjects […]

Duplicate emails being downloaded from Apple Mail?

I’ve tried everything I know and searched everywhere, but I can’t find an answer to this problem. Several of my clients have this issue and now I have it, after adding two new accounts to Mail – both of the new accounts are effected, but the older ones work fine. Mail picks up email and […]

Apple Continues Mac OS X 10.6.3 Testing [Seed Notes]

World of Apple once again has the 10.6.3 Beta seed notes for 10D561. Apple has once again released a build of Mac OS X 10.6.3 to developers for testing prior to a public release. The build labelled 10D561 is largely similar to previous releases and continues to contain no known issues. Of note Mac OS […]

iPhone OS 4 About to Drop?

A new report suggests that iPhone OS 4.0 could be close to release, months before it would normally be expected. Apple has heretofore only released new firmware with new phone models. However, CNET reports that a “prominent” app developer says he’s got the new SDK and has updated his app already. In the past, Apple […]

The Writer’s Tale, Final Chapter…

SFX.co.uk, has run a list of 20 things that you can learn from “Doctor Who: The Writer’s Tale (The final chapter)”. This book contains emails, script excerpts, and details directly from Russel T. Davies, and discusses the concepts, and ideas, that may or may not have reached the TV screen. Included in that list, is […]

Backing up Apple Mail’s Junkmail filter

Folks, I normally recommend backing up the entire mail folder (~/library/mail), when you need to backup your Apple Mail…  But what if you want to share your junk mail filter data to another computer?  For example, your significant other’s computer… Copy the ~/library/mail/LSMMap2 file to the other computer, but don’t yet put it into Apple […]