>>5) A Preferences option to delete from Mail Trash after a specified >>amount of time would be nice. Is there a way to do this?
First, let me stress that this is in no way criticism of how anyone handles their mail. To each their own. But I've never felt a need for a feature like this, primarily because: (1) I save almost all my mail forever. Compared to the other things on my hard drive, mail, even many tens of thousands of messages, takes up only a tiny amount of space. PowerMail is operating just fine, even with such a large database. Being able to search through those later, especially with such a good search feature now in place in PM, is a valuable asset I don't want to lose by throwing away messages needlessly. (2) Mail I don't save (spam of course, mailing list stuff, commercial offers I want) gets deleted immediately. I don't see a need to give it a stay of execution, and cannot think of a case where I've regretted that (most of this content is available on a web site, too, if I need to go back and read it again). Suggestions for handling this with a script and Cron jobs is a fine idea, but seems a bit complex, esp. for people who are not comfortable going beyond the GUI. Another system, though it requires intermittent manual intervention, would be to simply put stuff you plan on trashing later into a mailbox created for that purpose. Every couple of weeks or so, just go in and select messages older than a certain date (easy to do if you sort by date, and then use a shift-click to grab a block of messages) and then move those to the real Trash. --- Scott T. Hards President HobbyLink Japan (www.hlj.com)
