OS X / Unix Matt | 26 Jul 2007 09:38 am
Reindex message database for Mail.app
If you’ve got a huge mailbox in Apple’s Mail.app program, this line to be used in Terminal may help. It will rebuild the index used by the sqlite database used by the application. There is no need to run this less than every new hundred megs of mail or so … even that’s overkill. And if you don’t have at least 500 megs, I doubt you’d notice any difference. But if you’re one of those folks that Mail.app is just crawling for, this may be the answer:
sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/Envelope\ Index vacuum;
