At Thursday, July 17, 2003, 16.39 CET, Tim Lapin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Thursday, July 17, 2003 at 12:15 PM, Mark Sittig sent forth: > >>Howdy, >> >>At this point, I only have one small issue with the application: mail >>storage. I am weary of having one database hold every single email >>message. I have read numerous reports of people using MS Entourage >>and eventually getting corrupted mail databases. Wouldn't Powermail >>be susceptible to the same fate, even if the database structure >>differs? It seems to me that individual mailbox storage would create >>fewer problems. >> > >> >>Thanks! >>Mark P. Sittig >> >> > >Hi Mark, > >I have been using PowerMail for about 3 years and not once has PowerMail >corrupted my database. I too worried about monolithic database problems >vs the smaller and more manageable text based Eudora mailboxes. I have >compacted my database a few times but only for size considerations. Like >Eudora, "holes" left by deleted messages have to be dealt with. > >I admit that one anecdote does not a solid recommendation make so I would >ask those who have databases in the 10,000 message range to comment. I >tend to keep my database on the trim side of things, with only 5,000 or >so messages plus the associated attachments (if any). I started to use PM back in 2001, switched over to Entourage for OSX for about half a year because I thought the "all-in-one" concept would be a time saver for me. But when the mail database went close to one GB I went back to PM again, in February this year. I've got some 30,000 messages in the database, and receive -- and delete (thus creating "holes") -- an average of 150 spams a day. I guess I'm kind of a "sloppy" user, using PM to store all mails, no matter how old they are, rarely compacting the PM database etc. And I've never lost a mail, and never had any error messages in this area. Should any problems come up, we have this excellent discussion forum with people who always seem willing to help directly, which beats any comercial support I've seen so far. I guess one main thing to avoid database trouble is PMs way of storing attachments outside the database. I know Eudora still does that as well, but the other main apps put it all together in one huge database. Take my words for what they are -- an "experience summary" rather than an unreserved recommendation. Issues where users do experience database problems turns up every now and then in this forum, but for me personally PM has been a very problem free mail app. Max Gossell -- OSX v10.2.6 PowerMail v4.2a5 Dual G4 1.2 GHz / 1GB RAM
