Hi I know this has been sort of covered previously but there hasn’t so far as far as I can see been a definitive solution only a temp fix.
I have a mid 2014 iMac 27″ mac with 24GB of Ram. Since installing El Capitan – I have had major problems with Mac Mail. Over a period of a few days the whole Mac becomes progressively slower and slower, and eventually pops up with an error – “Out of Application Memory” and mail is always paused in the pop up window.
As it becomes slower, mail becomes less responsive and eventually crashes and then cannot be restarted or force quitted with the only option being to switch the mac off and reboot it. (I have tried the Kill command in console and this has Zero effect on killing mail either).
Mail connects to an exchange server on our network and collects one email account’s mail to this particular machine.
Having read the forums, I ran activity monitor and noticed that the Memory usage was mail increasing exponentially all of the time. So following the instructions I deleted the zipped log files in the System Library for Mail – and immediately the Mac became a happy mac for a few days until it eventually grinds to a halt again.
Now I know I could keep deleting the log files, but what is causing it to do this ? And is there way a way to actually stop it ? I’ve tried moving all the inbox mail and sent mail to Archive – but this has no effect.
Can any one give me a step by step guide as to what I could try to cure this, as it is really annoying …..! Thanks !
Gavin