What he said :) -- Larry S. Samberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] VM/Fax: 508-861-0261 Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen..." Paul 11:1
On Sat, 24 May 2003 19:14:30 -0700 Greg Saylor wrote: >I don't mean to walk on your request.... I couldn't agree more with you >and I also am currently rather unhappy with my selection of Powermail... > >There are three things which come up time-and-time again and that, I >think, should be totally fixed: > >#1. The search functionality in Powermail does not seem to work in a >deliberate/predictable way. What's the point in having an indexed email >system if the search functionality is so poor as to be virutally >unusable? I have never been able to use this to any degree with any sort >of accuracy - I always get messages which have absolutely nothing to do >with what I am searching for and a good deal of the time I can't even >find my search criteria *ANYWHERE* in the email. > >#2. This deleting old email business. I read this mailing list every day >and this is just such a massively requested issue. > >#3. This email getting stuck in the "Out Tray"... I don't think I need >to say anything more about this, I've said all I can on it.... It comes >up all the time too... There is a *CLEARLY* identified bug in Powermail >in this regard (if CTM is reading this, look for other messages from me >in the past couple of weeks for information on how to reproduce it 100% >of the time... I'm not going to waste space reposting it here..).. > >- Greg > >>I've been running Powermail 4.1.2 for 4 months now, and I'm really >>unhappy. I did a careful search of email tools before committing to PM, >>and for a while thought I had the correct approach. Now I feel very >different. >> >>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. >> >>The official way to do this is to create another folder, move the >>messages you don't want to delete to it, then use Special...Empty Mail >>Trash from the menu to do this. The problem is that it is not possible to >>select more than a couple of thousand messages to move at a time. >> >>Another suggested solution is to use a third party AppleScript. It's a >>nice idea perhaps, but totally impractical with the volumes I have. >> >>This topic has come up over and over again on the PM discussion boards, >>but CTM have not said what they are doing about this. If PM wants to be a >>serious email program, it needs to address the issues of serious users. >> >> >> >>George Henne >>NS BASIC Corporation >>http://www.nsbasic.com > > >
