On Wednesday, September 10, 2003, at 09:04 AM, Derry Thompson wrote:
> William at [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on 10/9/03 4:51 pm
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>> I've never had any failures with Apple Mail, it's just that I would
>> like a faster and more flexible search engine and the ability to
>> navigate without the mouse. I have about half a gigabyte of mail. It
>> could be the size of my database that is causing the problems for
>> PowerMail. Has anyone tried MailSmith? I don't think I have the
>> stomach
>> for another experiment right now, but I'd appreciate hearing people's
>> experiences.
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> My mail file was 1.3gb, Powermail handled that fine.
Hmm, so it's not the size. Powermail *was* handling mine fine for a few
days, but now I'm stuck in an endless loop ... no matter what start up
fixes I apply, once PowerMail finally comes up it flashes a dialog box
saying it doesn't hae enough memory. If you click OK it just comes back
again. The only way out is to force quit, which means it needs to
rebuild everything again at the next startup.
The memory problems first started when I asked PowerMail to rebuild the
index (to deal with *another* problem). It seems stuck in a cycle of
unhappiness at doing that. I've tried canceling the indexing in the
little progress bar before the memory error pops up, but I can't get
its attention fast enough. If I revert to a saved version of the
PowerMail files (about a day old) then everything is O.K. So maybe I
could selectively copy some "good" files from that folder to make this
problem go away. If anyone has had similar problems and successfully
resolved them, I'd appreciate hearing how. I don't plan to continue
with PowerMail right now, but I would like to get my hands on that lost
day's mail (I thought I had told PowerMail to leave messages on the
server, but apparently not).
I'm using PowerMail 4.2, OS X 4.2, on a PowerBook G4.
>
> I'm not having any crash problems at at.
>
> I looked at MailSmith prior to settling on PowerMail. Didn't like it at
> all, it felt horribly alien.
But did it import your mail without a hitch? And how fast was the
search engine?
Regards,
Bill McCallum
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