Hi Bill,
I recently learned (the hard way) that Apple Mail croaks when the db
gets to 1 gig for the Panther version and I think it can deal with a db
of up to 2 gig in the Tiger version. BUT that's INCLUDING ATTACHMENTS!
=:-0
So if you use Mail, be sure to save your attachments out from the emails
& into a folder, then delete them from Mail. The good news is that if
the worst does happen, ThunderBird can read the "Mail" mbox files, you
just copy them to the right place when ThunderBird will see them. So
when shopping for an email program, be sure that it is one that keeps
the attachments in a separate folder, not in the email database. IMHO
Mail is too slow & can't handle the volume of email that a more robust
program like Emailer, TB or PM can.
So just watch out for that with "Mail".
Oh, and lest anyone get the wrong idea, I'm not actually recommending
ThunderBird as an Emailer replacement. It's not. I'm spending some time
now learning TB mostly because a bunch of my consulting clients are
using it (it's free!) so I need to be familiar with it to help them.
PowerMail is far more polished, but it crashes sometimes while checking
mail. Or maybe when it filters spam(?), Usually when I'm not even using
it. But combined with Spam Sieve, PM is really very good.
Best,
Dave Nathanson
Mac Medix
Bill McIntyre wrote:
While I had occasional small problems with Emailer that required my
coming to you folks for help, Mail has not so much as burped.
Bill McIntyre
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