powermail-discuss Digest #2708 - Thursday, October 18, 2007
Re: Slow Address Book
by "Sean McBride" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Slow Address Book
by "C. A. Niemiec" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Slow Address Book
by "Barbara Needham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Slow Address Book
by "Rick Lecoat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Slow Address Book
From: "Sean McBride" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:24:02 -0400
Marlyse Comte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on 17.10.2007 13:43 Uhr said:
>I do understand the issue with the Recent Mail window.
The contents of the Recent Mail window change if you quit PM and
relaunch it. Mail is no longer "recent" at relaunch.
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Subject: Re: Slow Address Book
From: "C. A. Niemiec" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:52:00 -0400
>I find this to be something of a problem, because I want to do regular
>backups, but I *don't* want to regularly shut down PM -- due to the
>clearing of the Recent Mail Window. (My person soapbox that one, I know,
>but it's a substantial problem for me).
>
>I have considered simply preventing any receive or send operations (and
>not performing any other actions in PM) for the duration of a backup,
>but leaving PM running... but I'm nervous about doing so on account of
>the best-practice advice noted above.
>
>What do other list members think about this? Would I be likely to f**k
>up my database doing backups this way? (Backups are made to external
>drive using SuperDuper, btw).
I thought I read somewhere in its docs that SuperDuper will simply skip
a file if it's active.
Not that I don't close down all my apps before running it. :)
And I don't see the problem with the RMW retaining unread mail between
program restarts. Maybe we should have a Not-So-Recent-But-Still-Unread
Mail Window? ("SNRBSUMW"... someone call the acronym police...)
Chris
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Subject: Re: Slow Address Book
From: "Barbara Needham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:36:02 -0700
C. A. Niemiec on 10/17/07 said
>And I don't see the problem with the RMW retaining unread mail between
>program restarts. Maybe we should have a Not-So-Recent-But-Still-Unread
>Mail Window? ("SNRBSUMW"... someone call the acronym police...)
That is what Rick [and others] want--- have to say I can see their point;
it is one of the reasons I never bother with it.
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Barbara Needham
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Subject: Re: Slow Address Book
From: "Rick Lecoat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:03:09 +0100
On 17/10/07 (06:36) Barbara said:
>That is what Rick [and others] want--- have to say I can see their point;
>it is one of the reasons I never bother with it.
Actually what I want are Smart Folders. But failing that, I would dearly
love a simply preference: "Clear contents of Recent Mail Window at Quit:
yes/no".
I've been asking CTM for this for about as long as we've had the RMW.
During that time PM has been updated at least half a dozen times. And I
recently sent a support email to CTM (generated from PM's help menu)
making the request more formally. In it I outlined my reasons for
requesting the feature (ie. that it's absence was having a serious
impact on my backup schedule) and suggested several ways in which a
solution might be implemented. I also stated that the problem is of
sufficient importance to me that I need to know whether or not CTM have
any intention of *ever* implementing the feature, otherwise I will
reluctantly need to look around for a replacement email client.
I'm not saying that CTM should implement the feature just because I ask
them to. But they never replied, even to acknowledge receipt of an
officially-generated support email.
I for one am concerned about CTM's level of support for their product.
If Mail (Leopard edition) improves its filtering abilities and allows me
to apply specific filters to just incoming or just outgoing messages,
I'll be switching. (I doubt it will though).
Rick
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G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM :: 10.4.9 :: PM 5.5.2 :: 3 pane mode
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