Michael J. Hußmann (13/11/07, 13:29) said: >>> Anyway, even if the mail database was split into several databases, you >>> could still run against the 2 GB limit. >> >> Yes, and you could split a large folder into two smaller folders to deal >> with this. > >Yes, you could, but it's an awkward solution.
Awkward for you perhaps. It would work well for me, as I explained in my last email. None of my existing folders are anything like 2 GB in size. >> Maybe, but PowerMail have said they're not going to do this. > >"Not going to do this" as in "never ever"? I don't think so. CTM's "Official Pronouncement" (October last year) was: "In the process of moving PowerMail to XCode and Intel, we discussed long and hard the matter of maximum database size and have decided, for technical and philosophical reasons, that the right thing to do was to keep the 2GB limit." >> In any case, it doesn't solve the backup problem. > >Neither does the multiple database approach. Yes it does. The problem is that my email database is nearly 2 GB in size, and the entire database is backed up every day. If I was using Time Machine (I'm not), it would be backing this up every hour. If PowerMail followed other email clients in having a separate email database for each folder, all that would need to be backed up would be the folders that received new emails in the last day (or hour in the case of TM). This excludes the largest folders, which are archives of previous years' emails. >I really wonder how many users of PowerMail actually hit the 2 GB limit regularly. A shrinking number, because we are (or have or will be) switching to different email clients. PowerMail doesn't work if you have an email database that is larger than 2 GB. Jeremy
