Well, besides the fact that Michael Tsai obviously knows what he is talking about, I can report that PowerMail crashes regardless of whether SpamSieve is running native or in Rosetta. O, well--I almost switched to Apple Mail last month, maybe I'll think about it again soon.
A Michael Tsai said at Tue, Aug 15, 2006 12:11 PM -0700: >On Aug 15, 2006, at 1:29 PM, Eric Bickford wrote: > >> PowerMail on my MacBook Pro crashes several times each day for me as >> well when retreiving email. However, I now think it may be SpamSieve >> 2.4.4 that is actually crashing which causes PowerMail 5.2.3 to then >> crash. > >I doubt that. No one's reported it, and probably the worst that would >happen to PowerMail if SpamSieve crashed is that it wouldn't get the >proper reply to one of its Apple events (which I'm sure the CTM folks >know how to handle). In any case, it should be obvious if SpamSieve >has crashed, because it will bring up its own crash reporter, and >also there will be a SpamSieve.crash.log file in: > > /Users/<you>/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/ > > >On Aug 15, 2006, at 2:26 PM, Alan Harper wrote: > >> However, I just set SpamSieve to "Open using Rosetta" to see if >> that helps. I can imagine that the interprocess communication >> between PPC and Intel processes could cause these crashes. > >People used SpamSieve in Rosetta while Apple Mail was native for >quite some time in the run up to the Intel Macs. And since January, >lots of people have used the native SpamSieve with Entourage, >GyazMail, or Mailsmith running in Rosetta. Nobody's sent me a crash >report related to this. > >-- >Michael Tsai <http://c-command.com> > > > >
