Michael, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >Plus,you write "having to fire up FM separately" like it takes a massive >amount of time to do so. :) Click on the database, a couple dockbar >bounces, and the database is ready for searches. Boom. The wait is, at >most, a couple or three seconds. I fritter away more than that when I >fall asleep at the keyboard each afternoon. :)
What you lose is also your mindset and having to adapt to another GUI, meaning other ways of navigating around and finding the messages you want. Most GUIs of Database backup utilities suck IMHO, including EMA. While that is not such a big problem for me, except aesthetically, being a database developer and getting most things at first try, I am deliberately also a bit lazy using interfaces and rather have one GUI for my mail messages, that I really like, like PM which happen to be my choice. There's in addition the problems involving moving data effectively back from the backup apps, if you're still using that data actively. This while avoiding duplication and loss of data or loss of data integrity (context). While possible to achieve, this can easily take more time than keeping them in PowerMail, at least if those issuesa re important to you. This is only my view on message management of course and I welcome differing attitudes and other ways of managing data as that is always interesting. Having said this I also acknowledge the value of backing up and EMA is one solution that may work for some. Personally, I prefer simple UNIX mailboxes though. PM 5.0.1 | OS X 10.3.4 | Powerbook G4/400 | 768 MB RAM | 30 GB HD
