Mikael Byström wrote at 11:33 PM (+0200) on 4/17/06: >So I got my serial and I went looking for how to add it to the still >running PMS. While possible, you have to restart the application and >loose all your found messages. Duh'!
I received e-mail a few days ago from a recent registrant (I don't have any in your name, so perhaps it is a colleague who registered on your behalf) complaining of this. It is a valid frustration. As I explained in my reply: "The simple truth is that the registration scheme is duplicated from Doggiebox, another application I develop. In the case of Doggiebox, relaunching with the key on the clipboard provided the best user experience, hence the design. Given that I did not initially intend to market PM Salvage as a prominent retail application, I hadn't invested much time in making elegant the registration process. However, in retrospect given the nature of the app, I can fully appreciate how this method is frustrating." I will try to improve this for a future release. >So entered the serial and restarted PMS and let it run for 24+ hours. It >found most likely all my circa 200 000 messages. There was no way to >clearly see what order they were in, so I assumed they were in DB key >order and more or less in received by date order. They are displayed initially in the order in which they are coalesced from the database. You can change the sort order by clicking in the column headers. The UI is deficient in this regard though, providing no such visual indication. I will try to improve it for future. >Now, I realized some thousands of messages was duplicates and I found >that PowerMail Salvage *puts headers in the recovered messages(!)*. Bad >developer!!! PMS should not be putting any headers into the bodies, although it DOES add an additional header of "X-Recovery-Note: This message was recovered from a corrupt database by PMSalvage" to each recovered message to aid the user in discerning between potentially-corrupt and regular, un- recovered messages in a mixed database. In the event that the message headers are unrecoverable from the corrupt DB and PMS must generate the basics itself (e.g. From, To, Subject, etc.) then this will read "X- Recovery-Note: The above headers may not be authoritative" instead. Perhaps a pref option would be in order for suspending the former. I am glad that at the end of the day, the tools you had available worked well enough to recover your messages! -ben -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician zygoat creative technical services 613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628 http://www.zygoat.ca
