Resolved Mail log grows to enormous size

[timelessbeing]

I use MacOS Mail to check my Hotmail account. Every month or two my macbook runs out of storage space. When I check why, it's because of those damn Mail logs again.

/Users/joe/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Logs/Mail/imap-mail.outlook.com-5D9D1DEE-6727-4CF4-907A-D2CDB88210A9.log

This file seems to grow at a rate of about 50 GB per month.
I keep the email account pretty clean. The spam and trash auto-empties. My inbox isn't that large.

WTF is up with this??

 

[timelessbeing]

It contains a lot of text like this:


* 37 FETCH (FLAGS () UID 35094)

 

[MacCheetah3]

Never saw/heard that problem. However, I found this:

Huge Apple Mail Logs (Connection Logging Enabled)

I was doing some routine cleanup of my HDD, when I noticed some huge log files in ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Logs/Mail. Where do I toggle those log files off and on?

apple.stackexchange.com

 

[timelessbeing]

Sure enough, it was enabled. Thank you very much.

 

[bob_stan]

While I haven't had problems with massive logs, I never knew about that setting either - thanks.