powermail-discuss Digest #2765 - Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Re: deleted accounts
by "Michael J. Hußmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: deleted accounts
by "MB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
search index won't be rebuilt properly
by "MB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: deleted accounts
From: "Michael J. Hußmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 01:50:26 +0100
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]
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Subject: Re: deleted accounts
From: "MB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 04:46:38 +0100
Rick Lecoat said:
>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.
There's always Wayne's changeAccount script. So search for the account
to be deleted and run this script on the selection. I'd do it maybe a
couple of thousand messages at a time or more if you have a faster machine.
I've forgot about the issues with deleting an account, but I think it's
wise to change to an existing just in case. At a later time one can
still differentiate with the TO-address.
Mikael
Technoids:
PM 5.6 build 4497 sv / SpamSieve 2.6.5 sv | OS X 10.4.8 | Powerbook
G4/400 | 1GB / 80GB
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Subject: search index won't be rebuilt properly
From: "MB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 06:54:59 +0100
I have a long standing problem with my search index that I have tried to
rebuild by starting up with command pressed down and by choosing index
rebuild. Then later when conducting a search I was asked if I wanted to
index a large amount of messages -funny as PM most likely should have
done that during the first phase -, which I went ahead and did.
No more indications of bad search index after this except when I search
there's a lot I can't find anything of, like for instance
-> when I choose "Account is [accountName]" for an existing account,
nothing is found. Actually, not one of my accpunts can be found
searching for just the account. I'm sure I could in the past, because I
used to search for account messages to change the account to another
before deleting the first.
-> Also if I choose some words in content, not all messages containing
that word turn up in the results.
-> If I search for to-addresses a few existing addresses are not found,
even though I can filter them in folder view for example.
What can I do to really 100% index ALL my existing messages?
Anyone else have indexes that seems to not turn up everything?
Mikael
Technoids:
PM 5.6 build 4497 sv / SpamSieve 2.6.5 sv | OS X 10.4.8 | Powerbook
G4/400 | 1GB / 80GB
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