Comments on: Mailboxer: Smart mailboxes for contacts

By: Tim Gaden

Tim Gaden — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:46:24 +0000

Hi Mark,

The developer mentions an increased CPU load in his Mailboxer post.

Do you have a gazillion smart mailboxes or did you go down the “limited” route with an Address Book Group?

By: mbd

mbd — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:09:55 +0000

I installed this a couple of days ago now and it appears to cause quite a lot of CPU activity on my system – every few minutes my system load goes to 100% for a minute or two on one CPU. Activity Monitor reports near 100% CPU usage by mail.app. Looking at Mail.app’s Activity Viewer, it’s caused because mail.app is “Updating smart mailbox unread counts” on all the smart mailboxes that have been created.

Anyone else seeing this?

By: BZ

BZ — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:02:57 +0000

What this is really good for is multiple accounts. Now I can easily get to one person’s email in all accounts I might have emailed them in.

By: Tammy

Tammy — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:25:17 +0000

Thanks for reviewing Mailboxer…I just installed it and it’s exactly what I needed. I’m not going to miss all those little daily searches and particularly like that I can specify which contacts I need Mailboxer to cover. Yet again, your blog has helped me work better.

By: Jamie Phelps

Jamie Phelps — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:12:24 +0000

I’m all for SmartMailboxes, but this seems superfluous. Is this less trouble than clicking in the find box and typing the contact’s name or doing a Spotlight search? This just seems like unnecessary cruft for a sidebar that’s already packed on my 13″ screen.