>>The major problem is deleting old messages. I have 43,000 messages in my >>Mail Trash right now, from the last 6 months. I would like to purge all >>messages over 90 days, but there is no practical way to do so. >> >I will go out on a limb and offer that the problem is not with PowerMail, >it's with the way you manage your mail. > >I don't delete mail. Period. I archive everything forever, but my >method would work just as well for deleting as archiving.
You probably don't have the volumes I do. If I kept eveything, the size of my database would increase by 500 megs every 6 months or less (and that is without spam). It's already far too cumbersome. If I need to rebuild my indexes, I'm down for most of the day. Searches are slow as well as most other operations. >Just create a folder called "completed mail" or whatever, and move >everything to that when you're done with it. I have a hot key for doing >this. If you must delete, periodically, go in and sort on date, and then >select everything over your cut-off date for deletion. It doesn't matter >if there are 100 or 100,000. You just select the top message in the >group, scroll to the cut-off message, and then shift-click. Voila, >you've just selected all the zillions of messages between your two dates >in one shot. Now you can move those to the trash for instant deletion, >again with a single click. What's so hard about that? It doesn't work. As I said in my original message, it seem to be limited ot selecting a couple of thousand messages at a time, so it's not practical. >Your policy of letting thousands of messages pile up in the trash is, I >would offer, quite unusual. The trash is for trashing. Not archiving. These messages are probably trash, but I keep them around for 90 days just in case. There is no better place for them, and that is where the delete key sends them. Dragging and dropping them elsewhere, or doing anything else with them, is slower (delete key is already too slow) and just not practical for the volumes I have. I'm open to a better way of doing things, but I also think software should work the way people expect it too. Emailer and other packages do this properly. Why can't CTMDev do the same?
