Mac mail file downloading

Just wanted to say I have the same thing. Noticed it just recently, some days after upgrading to High Sierra. Checked CPU usage by Mail, it is low so that is not a concern here. But baffling. Feb 6, PM.

Feb 11, PM in response to marten berkman In response to marten berkman. Essentially, they will then try and push Apple for a remedy. Worth a shot. Feb 11, PM. Feb 11, PM in response to dougcampb In response to dougcampb. MacBook Pro. Since High Sierra Constantly taking up more of my 1TB flash drive. And exceeding my monthly 50GB of internet allocation. Feb 17, PM in response to drah In response to drah I was actually installing the yahoo account when this started, then I went to check my other Mac and there was with the same problem, always downloading emails, thousands of emails non stop.

I thought it could be because of iCloud but the Mail program was not included in iCloud, I didn't do it because it would take too much space on the server and I didn't have that space.

No extra storage. Conclusion, I have been busy for about 3 days for many, many hours doing research on google to find a solution, so far nothing worked, it was messy I can say! I managed to stop the downloading but then it wouldn't receive email, only send. Also had the situation that it would stay offline giving Authentication Failed, had Login Failed, etc Feb 17, PM.

I have this issue. I have Yahoo and Gmail accounts. Always downloading s of email. Never stops even when I don't have new mail. Looking for solution.. Feb 22, AM. Feb 22, AM in response to garywi In response to garywi. This has been an on-going issue for me on my Imac for a couple years and it seemed to resolve when I switched to a MBP I ended up switching to Airmail from Apple Mail and that the took care of the issue.

I do run Exchange off of our Company server for my Apple Mail. One temp. Feb 25, PM. This was on the advice of a Senior Apple Support person. But this did not work. I then went to my server, as I have gmail accounts, and I decided to delete all my MX files and then redo them my backend has an MX File "Wizard" - which automatically puts in the required settings into each field.

It took a couple of days for the settings to become live, but when they did, it solved the issue. I am no longer downloading tons of emails. Join , subscribers and get a daily digest of news, geek trivia, and our feature articles. By submitting your email, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

This could take up tens of gigabytes of space if you have a lot of emails. But, on a MacBook with GB of solid-state drive space, this can be a significant waste of space. This is where the Mail app stores its data for each user. Open Finder, click the Go menu, and select Go to Folder. Locate the Mail folder, right-click or Control-click it, and select Get Info. CleanMyMac 3 has a tool that will look through your email and find the large attachments and assuming you are using IMAP which is the default , it will leave the attachments on the server and only delete the local copy.

The Mail folder grows so large because the Mail app downloads every single email and attachment to store them on your Mac. This makes them accessible entirely offline and allow Spotlight to index them for easy search. However, if you have gigabytes of emails in your Gmail account or elsewhere, you may not want them all on your Mac!

However, you can save some space by telling Mail not to automatically download attachments. Open the Mail app, click the Mail menu, and select Preferences. Click the Accounts icon and select the account you want to change settings for. Failing this, you can only hope to control the amount of messages Mail downloads via server settings on your email server.

You could also look for a third-party email client on the Mac App Store or elsewhere. Other email clients should offer an option to store less emails offline and limit the size of our cache to a manageable size. To stop using the Mail app, first disable or delete your email accounts.

Click the Mail menu in Mail and select Accounts. Uncheck the Mail option for accounts you no longer want to use Mail with. Mail will stop downloading emails from those accounts. You can delete the folder to free up the space. This app will work with every popular and self-hosted email provider, with one simple download and setup process.

Before switching email client, however, you might want to get rid of existing gigabytes of useless attachments. Most people would have attachments and duplicates of those files, images, documents and videos dating back to when they first bought their Mac, with some going back to previous Macs if you synced from one device to another when setting-up a new computer.

That is potentially a lot of old downloads and duplicates! One of the best ways to get rid of Mac Mail downloads is using CleanMyMac X , a popular and easy-to-use app that over 3 million people are using to remove documents, files, images, apps, music and other junk that they don't need anymore.

Also available from Setapp, you can get your Mac tidied up then download a new email client that will keep it more organized. Try free. Get Setapp. A brief guide to making and transposing your email signature. The errors are due to unresponsiveness of macOS, garbled inbox, or the Mac system is unable to find relevant messages.

The Mailbox becomes slow and can spin for a long time without any message being displayed, message reflecting apple mail emails are appearing blank on macos 11 or displaying messages that cannot be understood. When you have problems in Mail on your macOS you can consider re-indexing or rebuilding as a method of troubleshooting. When you have some messages missing, you can begin by checking blocked contacts which stops the message from a person or a group of people, and your rules can direct messages to another mailbox.

Delete all the messages from the spam folders as well as unwanted emails in order to free storage in your Mac and give space for the incoming messages. You should also ensure that your Mac is updated with the latest version. Where the problem is still there, you can opt to rebuild or index your Mac. Rebuilding the mailbox deletes all the messages and any related information and then re-download them from Mac Mail servers. Click the Mail icon on your screen and open it.

On the menu, click Go found at the top. On the drop, menu click Applications and then click the Mail option.