On 7/1/08 (03:16) Tim said: >The only thing I can recall is something I noted about Apple Mail. If >you deleted an account in Apple Mail, all the mail associated with that >account would be deleted along with it. > >I'm not aware of any problems in PowerMail associated with accessing >mail belonging to deleted accounts.
That bit about Mail wiping everything if you delete an account is a bit of a horror, I hadn't realised that. Currently I'm wrestling with whether to stick with PM or jump ship to the more basic Apple mail, prompted in part by acquiring an iPhone and needing to sort out my email in quite a major overhaul. To keep this on-topic, anyway, I've been reducing the number of email accounts that I have. Instead of having accounts A, B, C, D & E (each with a separate mailbox on my mail server) I now have Account X with the addresses for A, B, C, D & E set as aliases -- something I should have done from the get-go perhaps, but I did find that having each address as a separate account in PM gave me added control. I have found that deleting the account from PM means that any messages that were retrieved from that account no longer have an account associated with them (which makes sense). But I don't like having 'holes' in PM's information database -- that sort of thing can only cause trouble if PM looks for some info that it expects and it isn't there. So before deleting accounts A, B, C, D & E I've been amending them to be associated with account X. The only way I could find to do this was to set up a filter and run it manually on search-for results. A bit of a fiddle but worth it because now I don't have any messages with the 'account' part of their info left blank; they all reflect the correct new accounts. I'm just passing this technique on in case it's of interest to anyone else. Hell, I'm even boring myself now. I'll stop. Rick -- G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM :: 10.4.11 :: PM 5.5.2 :: 3 pane mode
