diff --git a/app/logic/Mail/SQL/SQLDatabase.ts b/app/logic/Mail/SQL/SQLDatabase.ts
index 3a8107317..752aee0ba 100644
--- a/app/logic/Mail/SQL/SQLDatabase.ts
+++ b/app/logic/Mail/SQL/SQLDatabase.ts
@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ export async function getDatabase(): Promise<Database> {
   mailDatabase = await getDatabase("mail.db");
   await mailDatabase.migrate(mailDatabaseSchema);
   await mailDatabase.pragma('foreign_keys = true');
-  await mailDatabase.pragma('journal_mode = DELETE');
+  await mailDatabase.pragma('synchronous = NORMAL');
+  await mailDatabase.pragma('journal_mode = WAL');
   return mailDatabase;
 }