The mailboxes have thousands of messages. Apple mail pins a CPU or more during this time. Then trying to open one message may take another 20 seconds. The system has had ample time to do whatever it is it does after a system upgrade. Continuing Apple Core Rot.Ĭlicking on my Sent mailbox (and others) results in delays of up to 30 seconds in showing the mailbox, along with multiple rainbow beach balls. I think it is related to badly done search algorithms, similar to the performance losses in save and open dialogs. Performance was notably degraded with the arrival of El Capitan it seems that Apple is trying to engineer in bad performance. But is is far worse now, which speaks to the continuing incompetence by the programmers working on Apple Mail. New Apple Core Rot, and in a key area of functionality, at least for MPG.Īpple Mail in macOS Sierra has severe performance issues (and continuing bugs), just as in El Capitan and Yosemite. Like this article? Consider supporting Apple World Today with a $5 monthly Team AWT membership.Apple Mail in macOS Sierra: pegs CPU for 30 seconds or so (This how-to is based on my experiences and info on Apple’s support pages - where the images sometimes come from.).Make sure the rule corresponding to the auto-responder you wan to disable is NOT checked in the Active column.Open Mail>Preferences>Rules and check your newly-created autorespond message to activate it.Tap this, then create your auto-respond message. A new item, Reply Message Text, will show up.When you see Perform the following actions,d select Reply to Message from the drop-down menu.

In the third line select Every Message in the drop-down list.Set If to be any of the following conditions are met in the second line. A series of drop-down options will appear.

Enter a Description for the new rule, such as “Coffee Break” in the first line.

In the Preferences pane click Rules, then select Add Rule.

Launch Mail on your Mac, then open Mail>Preferences.

No more! You can set up OS X Mail to respond automatically to incoming messages with a text you have pre-composed. Do you keep having to retype the same ol’ replies when using Mail in macOS High Sierra.

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