Jeremy Hughes said: >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.
I'd switch if there was a compelling client. I have yet to find one I like better. I choose PowerMail because it doesn't get in the way of my email reading and writing. As I did hit the 2GB limit regularly last year, I swallowed the bitter pill and archived thousands, if not hundred of thousands, messages. While I miss some folders from time to time, I think archiving to another DB was an acceptable loss. Much information do get dated. It also fit my Feng Shui inspired clean-out of the mess in all areas of my life. Letting go is wonderful, because it creates room for the new. This applies to email messages as well. For me only business-related clients and friends emails are truly worth keeping around. >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 do think that the proper approach under the current circumstance would be for CTM to help and assist to find an *automated* export of Powermail Exchange files containing only the messages that have been downloaded since the last backup. Email DB ID would be better than Received Date as basis for that. These exported message files could then be moved by the backup program and deleted. One way to do this would be for CTM to supply support of export scripting in a future PM update. Something which sadly is missing today. . Qrecall <http://www.qrecall.com/> also looks promising, but I don't know how open file problems could affect it's effectiveness. I'm contemplating a purchase. Mikael Tech facts: PM 5.5.3 Swedish/SpamSieve 2.6.4 Swedish | OS X 10.4.8 | Powerbook G4/400 Mhz | 1GB RAM | 80GB HD
