On Mon, Oct 20, 2003, Michael Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED], invoked powers within the internet realm, to proclaim ...
>>I would consider it extreme measures to >>have to compact my database each time I received and deleted spam. > >You don't have to do it each time. You just have to do it when you get >spam that for some reason makes an address show up in your like you're >describing. As far as I know, deleting the email (emptying the trash) >does not get rid of it fully until a compact is done. So it's likely >whatever PM uses to build this email address history is still seeing it, >and that could very well be a bug. (I've never seen it, but I don't use >Apple's Address Book for PM because there are people in PM I don't want >in my main address book. They smell bad. Or something. :) ) No. It isn't still showing up, thankfully. What I think caused it to go away is disabling the address history. I don't know whether or not compacting the database beforehand would have solved the problem because I didn't even know there could be a problem until the problem arose. But, my correct addresses are still not there and I have restarted PM several times. As far as I'm aware, address completion should still work, because it was claimed that the addresses in the address book would show first. But then, all the addresses aren't right in the address book, so who knows. I don't know all the details of PM, I just know what I consider to be undesirable and based on these recent incidents I can conclude that things aren't as I expect them to be. I go to great lengths to manage my email when I'm not yet comfortable with the email program. PM has been my main email program, but I haven't yet come to trust it. Besides, I greatly prefer to use FileMaker Pro because it's easier to search and sort and I can create the color-scheme that I like. (I've never liked the starch-white background considering how much time I spend in email.) I've gone back to using Apple's Mail as a backup since all this happened. I'm probably going to switch back to it once Panther is released and I'm sure some of the improvements to Mail aren't just rumor. I thought I had a sensitive nose! I can't even smell the e-current from my email, much less a "bad smell" from the contacts in my address book. ;-)
