Very basic Mail question

[reykjavik]

Lately, its been taking a long time for my mail to show when I click on the Inbox icon. There aren't any big picture files to load or anything so I don't know why its taking so long. When I reboot that fixes it, but Im not running windows and don't want to have to reboot.

Is it a ram issue? (I have a gig on a G5 iMac).

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

How many messages in inbox?

Pop or IMAP (or both)?

 

[reykjavik]

How many messages in inbox?

Pop or IMAP (or both)?

Only 5. I dont mean that Mail is taking a long time to download them. I mean that when I flip back and forth from say, the Trash bin to the Inbox bin, it takes a while to display the already existing 5 or so messages in the Inbox bin.

 

[MisterMe]

Only 5. I dont mean that Mail is taking a long time to download them. I mean that when I flip back and forth from say, the Trash bin to the Inbox bin, it takes a while to display the already existing 5 or so messages in the Inbox bin.

You didn't answer the question. I am betting that nothing is wrong. However, without knowing your email protocol, your network speed, the file size of the image files, etc., we can only guess.

 

[reykjavik]

You didn't answer the question. I am betting that nothing is wrong. However, without knowing your email protocol, your network speed, the file size of the image files, etc., we can only guess.

My inbox contains 3 gmail accounts and 1 verizon.net account. Im on a 3mbps DSL connection and of the 5 emails in my inbox, only one has a small headnote gif.

 

[slooksterPSV]

I'm on an iBook G4 (see siggy) and Mail loads everything very fast for me. I have two GMAIL accounts and over 2000 emails that it's downloaded, so it may be a permissions problem, hard disk problem, RAM usage (multiple apps), CPU usage (if transfering files while trying to access the inbox), hard drive space (less than 15% left), GMail settings (I download all my emails), or a multitude of other things I could possibly think of.