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
