Hi Steve, don't use beta software and complain ;-)
some joker sent yesterday mails to the list with several lines in the subject. this caused the problem you mentioned in 3. why don't you compact your database ? that will speed up things imho. All the best Matthias ----------------------------------------------- schmidt-systemdevelopment http://www.schmidt-system.com iChat/AIM: MatKoyasan Tel. +81-736-56-3905 ----------------------------------------------- Am/On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 08:46:26 -0500 schrieb/wrote [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >Jerome, > >I recently received a number of 13MB emails which had the attachments in >the Body of the email instead of attachments. After deleting them I >thought it would be wise to Compact my data base. I used the menu option >for this before going to bed and woke up to find PowerMail rebuilding my >Sort Index. As with before this will take about 16 hours. Here are some >more facts: > >1. I'm still using the 5.1 beta (don't ask...) with 10.2.8 > >2. I have not crashed since we last emailed > >3. Yesterday I had a problem with message subject lines overwriting each >other as if the messages were jumbled together on top of one another. >Ironically it only affected the messages in my PowerMaill Discussion >folder :-) This did not appear to cause any functional problems, but to be >on the safe side I deleted them all, quit (empties the trash), and >restarted. No problems noted after this. > >4. I've quit and restarted PowerMail at least once after this without a >problem. > >What do you think the problem is? I am now obviously very disapointed >with this result and now wonder if this will happen to me everytime I try >to Compact. Any ideas? > >Also, could you *PLEASE* do something about the slowness of the rebuilds? >It really is a serious issue, even if it happens to a customer only once >(this is now my 4th time in as many weeks). > >Thanks! > >Steve > > > >
