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I recently purchased my first rMBP and I have noticed that Mail receives emails extremely slow. I receive the email on my iPhone 10 - 15 minutes before it appears on Mail.

I've tried searching for solutions however it doesn't seem like this is a problem many are having. Anyone have any solutions?

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  • the iPhone's email populates by "push" which means as soon as the server gets it, you will be notified. The Mac's email is "pulled" at a timed interval as Buscar웃SD mentions below...
    – scoutelder
    May 26, 2015 at 2:18

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In Mail there is a Activity view. Turn it on and see what is happening.

It looks like this

activity

All the bars should disappear with in a 1-2 minutes.

Also check in the Mail preferences the setting for how frequently to check for Mail. Hope it is not set on 15 minutes but more frequently.

get mail

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Make sure the IDLE command is selected in Mail > Preferences > Accounts > Account in question > Advanced", if supported by your server.
It's not the same as 'Push', but can speed up Mail delivery.

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Consider clearing or archiving folders where mail is automatically being placed.

After trying many things (like clobbering old directories in Caches, Preferences and Containers) with only minimal benefit, I had some success by clearing out some subfolders that I don't pay much attention to, where I have less-important mail refiled by server-side rules.

When those folders had around 10K messages in them, I saw mail get stuck "Downloading messages" forever, not pull in incoming Mail for hours (until restart), or simply crash occasionally. I haven't seen any of those since clearing out that clutter, knock on wood.

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