I also tried to remove all 'previous receipents' which helped a littel for a while. Do others also see semder names 'flipping' from one to another, corrospoding to usernames in differnt address books and differnt previous receipients? My feeling is that accountsd is going bonkers if it finds the same email in differnet places...
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accountsd (mail) process and CPU usage.
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Unfortunately not. I just got here on this forum digging for a solution.. I installed 10.15.3 yesterday, I hoped that this will get fixed, but clearly it wasn't
Thanks for the info. Them I did well not to wait for a solution from Apple!
This didn't work for me and I need to do the complete solution to make it work.
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I don't have a lot of problem with my gmail account. Only that it gets stuck in this from time to time, but it's not a lot of trouble.
Yeah… I agree that mail app in Catalina is just a lemon compare to previous editions.
PS/ There have been always problems, but there is hardly a better alternative as an email client.
I'm thinking Apple's going to rip & replace Mail in whatever is the next major release of macOS. It'll probably be a Catalyst-esque app so it's functionally the same on both platforms. I read somewhere awhile back the same treatment might also be coming to Messages.
10.15.4 does not fix the issue. I've been on with Apple support every other day now for a week and all she wants to do is run logs when the problem occurs so she can send the data to the engineers. I do find re-booting the computer allows me a window where the accountsd process doesn't immediate go to 400% of CPU. But it does not last very long. I did play around with disabling/enabling mail accounts under the watchful eye of Apple tech support and we were able to isolate the problem to my iCloud account. None of my Exchange accounts triggered the problem and I do not have any Gmail accounts (don't trust Google for anything). I find I have to keep Mail closed and check my iOS devices for any incoming mail that needs attention. This on a new 16" MBP, i9, 32 GB RAM. It is a ton of money to spend for a laptop that can't even support email. Truly unbelievable!
10.15.4 Same problem, accountsd process CPU utilisation 470% (beat ya with your measly 400%, swbones! ???) , CPU Temp sensor 100 Centigrade. Bravo, Apple. Not only is the Mail app totally unusable, I could barely move my mouse pointer to quit the darn thing.
Spent an hour on the phone with Apple support, they had me set up a new user on the same Mac, I set up the exact same accounts (IMAP, Apple, Exchange) in the Mail app - no issues. They didn't have an explanation.
Incidentally, this is a new Mac , and I started afresh, didn't use the migration assistant and set up all those accounts from scratch.
Go figure.
Spent an hour on the phone with Apple support, they had me set up a new user on the same Mac, I set up the exact same accounts (IMAP, Apple, Exchange) in the Mail app - no issues. They didn't have an explanation.
Incidentally, this is a new Mac , and I started afresh, didn't use the migration assistant and set up all those accounts from scratch.
Go figure.
Has anyone tested 15.5 to see if Apple has fixed this issue?
I have to reboot every other day to get the memory used by the accountsd process to reset. Before rebooting this AM accountsd was using 3 GB. Now 76 MB. This seems to work but is a pain.
Apple support has not responded in over two weeks with any response to the testing that we ran on my machine.
I have to reboot every other day to get the memory used by the accountsd process to reset. Before rebooting this AM accountsd was using 3 GB. Now 76 MB. This seems to work but is a pain.
Apple support has not responded in over two weeks with any response to the testing that we ran on my machine.
Yeah I updated and problem still remains. Incredible that people have been reporting this bug since 2015 and it still remains...
I just had to reboot 15.5. Pretty pissed at Apple as I paid over $4K for this machine and it can't even run Mail. I actually have to stop typing emails when it heats up and often it doesn't even save my work when I quit mail because the processor is so far behind. Inexcusable!
For different reasons, I went through several MBPs 16" this spring. With one of them, I had the same issue: Accountsd was going crazy plus the fans were having a blast. I have returned it the following day. Never had the same issue with the replacement without making any changes to my settings.
Why don’t you run the exchange accounts as IMAP - delete the old accounts and set up new accounts as ‘other’ then enter your settings for the exchange accounts - problem solved!
Except for the calendar synchronisation. I would like to keep an overview of my 3 agenda's.
Thanks man! I just did step 4 about deleting the ~/Library/Mail and ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail folders. I am not using Apple Mail and have never done, so I was quite surprised when the accountsd process started eating all of my CPU this morning. But this did the trick. Thanks again!
still an issue with 10.15.7 and previously suggested methods make no permanent change, high cpu comes back in a few hours
Got this BS last night, all cores at 100%
Restart did not resolve anything,
i saw in Little Snitch that "commerce" is sending endlessly data to init.icloud.apple.com (not much around 120kb/s)
i solved that problem with a quick LOGOUT via Settings -> Apple Id.
then relogin, after some seconds everything went "ok"
Restart did not resolve anything,
i saw in Little Snitch that "commerce" is sending endlessly data to init.icloud.apple.com (not much around 120kb/s)
i solved that problem with a quick LOGOUT via Settings -> Apple Id.
then relogin, after some seconds everything went "ok"