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I’ve been having major Mail.app problems on my Powerbook the last couple of days. I’m running Mail.app version 2.1 (752/752.2) on MacOS X 10.4.8. Having my primary work IMAP account enabled resulted in 100% CPU usage, eventually forcing me to kill Mail.app. Disabling the account allowed me to use Mail.app normally. Nothing seemed to be able to cure this problem, not even deleting the account and setting up a new one with the same parameters.

Solution: I had to delete ~/Library/Mail/Envelope Index and ~Library/Mail/Envelope Index.journal. These are the SQLite3 databases that Mail.app uses for storing message properties such as header information.

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