Clipping Service very slow
 

Hi there

I've set up Mail with MailTags and am looking to invoke the Clipping service to send mail to the quick entry panel.

However when I do so, it takes perhaps 15-20 seconds to open the quick entry panel and populate it. This is with OmniFocus open. Same thing if I send to inbox instead of to Quick Entry.

Am I missing something? It is unworkable at present on my Macbook.

This isn't normal. There must be some kind of conflict as mine is nearly instantaneous.

I'm not using MailTags though, just the Clip-o-Tron 3000 and Leopard Mail.

Hi!
Over here it can be quite slow, too. I'm not using Mailtags but sometimes creating an action from a Mail entry can take up to 10secs on my MBP. Possibly related to size & content of the Email.
Cheers
Silvan

OK, now I see what you mean. I tried it on several very large emails in Mail and the Clip-O-Tron does seem to take up to 10-15 seconds for very long emails (i.e. not large attachments, but very long email bodies with lots of embedded email addresses).

Note that I do not see this delay for medium to small emails though. Still, I'll open a bug report with Omni Group so they're at least aware of the issue. You might want to do the same (Help -> Send Feedback in OmniFocus).

The mail clipping service operates by AppleScript, and there are performance limitations that have to do with scanning through the text of the email. I'm betting this is as fast as we can make it. 'Script is pretty awesome, but perfomance isn't one of it's strengths.

If folks can send sample emails that they're having trouble with to [EMAIL="support@omnigroup.com"]support@omnigroup.com[/EMAIL], we can add this to our development database in case we think of ways to optimize this in the future.

[QUOTE=Toadling;37396]OK, now I see what you mean. I tried it on several very large emails in Mail and the Clip-O-Tron does seem to take up to 10-15 seconds for very long emails (i.e. not large attachments, but very long email bodies with lots of embedded email addresses).[/QUOTE]

If you select one of those messages in Mail and hit Copy (instead of using the clipping service), how long does it take? (Copying is a prerequisite to sending it to us, that this will isolate how much time is spent in Mail before OmniFocus is invoked from how much time is spent afterwards.)