I also find that Powermail, at least the most recent versions, seems to be slower than I would expect on my 1GHz PB G4. Displaying things is slow. Moving mail is even slower. I have compacted the db but it doesn't seem to make a difference. That and the lack of appropriate threading (i.e. I can't really read mail while mail is downloading) are really my primary gripes with PM.
/lss -- Larry S. Samberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] VM/Fax: 270-514-0557 Skype: larrysamberg Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. --Antoine de Saint-Exupery On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 21:34:43 -0800 Dan Webb wrote: >> Display speed: >> I've never known PM to display messages or message lists at anything >> less >> than lightning speed. Admittedly I'm on a G5, but even so it makes me >> wonder if this is something more to do with your set up rather than a >> problem intrinsic to PM itself. It's just text sifted from a database >> after all, and shouldn't be slow to display. > >I extensively searched for an answer to this speed problem several >months ago, and I found that most people claim they don't see a >problem. The only thing I could to do speed it up was to remove some >of the columns being displayed. I reduced the columns down to the >minimum set I would put up with, which helped a little. Other >applications displayed list views much faster than PowerMail. > >I have a 2GHz G5, and it draws fairly fast, but still not nearly as >fast as I would expect. > >I recently upgraded to a new 1.5GHz Powerbook (from 550MHz), and it >still was pretty slow. And on top of that, it took about a minute to >start up, and I couldn't figure out why. (I neglected to mention this >in my original email.) I even rebuilt the database, and it didn't >help. Maybe it was trying to access files no longer accessible? I >don't know. > >My tolerance was running out at this point. I tried OS X Mail, and it >did pretty much everything I needed, so I started the conversion >process. It was amazingly painless to convert my old mailboxes. > >> Address book: >> My copy of PM stays in sync with my Apple address book just fine. I >> have >> them set so that PMAB updates itself from the Apple AB, but *not* the >> other way around (ie. PM doesn't pass info back to the AAB). I had a >> little trouble when I first set it up (both tried to sync with each >> other, and since the PM address book was empty at that point it wiped >> out >> half my Apple AB, hence my decision to use one as a 'master' and one >> as a >> 'slave'). > >This is exactly my setup. Whenever I added a new address to the >address book, it wouldn't add it to AAB. And it opened up the PMAB >entry instead of the AAB, even though I had "Open in AAB" enabled. And >sometimes when I added a new address to AAB, it wouldn't sync into >PMAB. I had to clear PMAB and do an import from scratch. > >> If yours refuses to stay in synch then perhaps there is a corrupt >> preference. Same goes for the not opening in AAB properly; my prefs are >> set to open addresses in Apple AB, and if I double click an address in >> a >> PM message it opens up in AAB as expected. If the address is in my PM >> address book but not in the AAB (as some are, like this group for >> example) then it opens up in PM's address book instead. If your address >> books are not synching then perhaps this is the reason that things are >> not opening up in the AAB? > >Maybe a corrupt preference is the answer. I didn't think of dumping my >prefs file. > >> Network absence: >> You can get rid of the dialogue boxes by going to preferences > >> Notifications and deselecting the 'Display Alert' checkbox under 'Error >> notification'. I just have a sound played when there is difficulty >> accessing an email account, so there is no dialogue box to dismiss >> (IIRC, >> those dialogue boxes would suspend other PM activity until dismissed, >> which I always thought was rather odd, OS9-like behaviour). > >True. I tried to get rid of the error altogether by enabling >"Automatically access the network only if it is already available", but >it didn't help. > >> Whichever way you decide to jump, Dan, I wish you the best of luck. >> Cheerio; > >Thanks for the feedback! I've gotten a lot of good help from this >email list over the past few years. > >Dan > >
