Mikael Byström on 9/1/03 said >Several times lately the recent mail window doesn't display large >downloads (100+) of new mail or alternatively display initially, but not >on next run of the app. They have not been removed by myself. Last night >I had 1756 new messages on 3 accounts (bad free accounts clearly with one >month of messages) and they were all visible in recent mail. Today after >I have shutdown and restarted one time, they are all gone from the recent >mail window, though they are still found in their respective folder. I >certainly didn't remove them, so what's going on?. > >Where is the data in the recent mail window stored? What could make it >stop working? Anyone have an idea? >I'd like to file a bug report when I've experienced this in 4.2 as well, >but I'd like to hear if I'm alone with this experience or not. So, am I >really the first?
I think that is the way "Recent Mail" is supposed to work. It only shows what you have received since you started up a session of Power Mail until you close it. Once you close it, it isn't "Recent Mail" anymore. The next session of Power Mail will start a new "Recent Mail" window. This is the way most applications work, that I have seen. For instance, in MacSoup if I select to see "New" messages I will see all messages that came in since I opened the program. Upon closing the program these messages are not new anymore. If I open the program without downloading anything, "new" will be empty. So yes, when you shut down and re-start, it does change your Recent Mail window; as it should. -- Barbara Needham
