>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.
George, 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. 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? 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. --- Scott T. Hards President HobbyLink Japan (www.hlj.com)
