I'm still finding that after a while the alert sounds (well, all the sounds) from Powermail are being silenced. I have no idea what triggers it -- maybe something to do with iTunes or Quicktime? -- but it's actually rather annoying and more of a productivity block than I wold have expected.
I'm not so bothered about losing the sounds effect for when I send mail, because I know that I've done it; it's more the alerts for new mail that are conspicuous by their absence. The only way to rectify the problem is to quit and restart Powermail -- which gets me back to my most-often-moaned-about issue: the emptying of the recent mail window at restart. It's been over a month since I've jumped up on this soapbox, but I figure that if a new version of PM has come out in the intervening time that has not addressed the matter, then I'm allowed to bleat on about it again like a cracked record. So here goes: The Recent Mail Window (RMW) is a major centre of productivity for me; mail stays there until I decide to either read it, delete it, or whatever. I treat it like a "Things still to act on" tray and it performs this function superbly because it pulls together all the mail that has been shifted, upon arrival, into hundred of sub folders by my vast phalanx of filters. This works wonderfully, until I need to restart Powermail, which clears the RMW. Suddenly I am forced to hunt through all those folders looking for messages that until a moment ago were conveniently shown together in Recent Mail, so the memory-jogging value of the RMW is entirely lost. The result is that I try and avoid shutting down PM if at all possible. This means I delay in compacting my mailboxes, I put up with glitches like the loss of sound (noted above) for longer than I would otherwise need to, and -- most important by FAR -- I delay in making backups of my data, because to do so safely I need to quit PM. So, as far as I am concerned, PM interferes with my backup routines and that is a VERY BAD THING. ONE SINGLE CHANGE would make this problem go away: a simple preference to let me choose whether the RMW gets emptied at restart, or is retained. Is it really THAT hard? I've been asking for this since PM 4.1 -- that's over 3 years. C'mon CTM, you may as well do it... you *know* I'll just keep on badgering you until you do... ;-) Rick -- G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM :: 10.4.7 :: PM 5.5b2 :: 3 pane mode Shark Attack: A Design Studio <www.sharkattack.co.uk>
