powermail-discuss Digest #2742 - Friday, November 23, 2007
Re: problem with PM search function
by "MB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: HTML-only to text conversion working now?
by "Howard Mullinack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: problem with PM search function
by "Rick Lecoat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: problem with PM search function
From: "MB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:46:37 +0100
PowerMail Engineering told:
>If the search index has been completely deleted....<snip> you will have a
>partial index, or an unusable index; you will have to rebuild it from
>the First Aid dialog.
OK, thanks for that info. The index file could of course be missing out
of accident.
Indexes are such things I, and I suspect many users with me, generally
would expect to be rebuilt without user intervention in most cases.
Wouldn't it be reasonable for PowerMail to offer to do a rebuild also in
the case if it detects that the index file is actually missing? I would
assume OS X itself already is telling PM that the file is missing when
PM attempts to read it the first time.
Please consider it a suggestion.
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
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Subject: Re: HTML-only to text conversion working now?
From: "Howard Mullinack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:55:49 -0800
MB Thu, 22 Nov 2007 08:41:11 +0100
>I it just my messages or has the long wished for HTML to text
>functionality silently been implemented even on email source that is
>HTML _only_ (that is no plain text multipart)?
>
>When I display HTML messages of such HTMl-only messages as plain text,
>_all_ the vital info (though not the formatting), inlcuding such things
>as web URLs, that in the source is within HTML tags, is now in plain text.
>
>I just love it! For many messages I'll keep viewing them in HTML, but
>for those I just want the basics from I sure will turn'em to plain text
>more often.
>
>So now I only need a script that takes HTML attachments and turn those
>to plain text and put them in the message body. I have some mailing
>lists that put HTML messages as attachments to empty bodies, so that
>would make them more useful. Anyone else into that idea?
Yes, that would be extremely useful.
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Subject: Re: problem with PM search function
From: "Rick Lecoat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:24:24 +0000
On 23/11/07 (23:46) MB said:
>Indexes are such things I, and I suspect many users with me, generally
>would expect to be rebuilt without user intervention in most cases.
Generally I would agree, but my experience would show that rebuilding
the index can take a while (several minutes for my modest -- 450MB --
database) and I would guess that, like database compacting/rebuilding,
it is not a process that should be interrupted once begun. So whilst it
might be okay to automatically rebuild indexes in the background, the
user *should* IMHO be given an indication that it is going on, in order
to prevent them from quitting PM or shutting down their mac or whatever
mid-process.
There is also the issue that a 'possibly-lengthy, shouldn't-be-
interrupted' process might be inconvenient at certain times (if I have
to to shut down the mac for the night, for example, I might not want to
wait an extra 15-20 minutes whilst an index rebuild finishes) and so
perhaps letting people choose the time by initiating it manually is not
such a bad idea, just in terms of being courteous to the user.
My 2ยข.
Rick
--
G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM :: 10.4.9 :: PM 5.5.2 :: 3 pane mode
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