Rick Lecoat ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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 suppose an AppleScript could do the job, but honestly, I wouldn't bother. As far as I can tell (and I've deleted a couple of obsolete accounts so far), PowerMail can deal with account-less mail just fine; it doesn't really expect this link to exist. And the account link associated with an archived mail isn't terribly important anyway -- I mean, as long as I can still tell that some mail was sent to a certain obsolete address of mine, why should I care whether that mail was retrieved via the account once associated with that address? The only use of that info (that I can think of) would be that I might want to reply to that mail using the same account. But if the account doesn't exist anymore, there's no reason to even try. - Michael Michael J. Hußmann E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW (personal): http://michael-hussmann.de WWW (professional): http://digicam-experts.de
