On Saturday, August 23, 2008, Michael Lewis sent forth: >Matthias Schmidt sez: > >>So yes, it gets more and more difficult t stick with PM. > >Can you not use the button at the bottom to switch to HTML view or view >the message in a web browser. If neither of those work, than the email >has crappy HTML code and it isn't PM's fault. > >-- >Michael Lewis >Off Balance Productions >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >www.offbalance.com > >
You miss the point, I think. These messages cannot be displayed by PM in any mode. I have received a few myself. If mail is increasingly of the HTML-only variety, then using PM becomes increasingly a chore as the very automatic nature of viewing email is changed. What it means is that more and more we will have to go down to the icon at the bottom of the page and click on that little globe, invoking a second program to do what the first program should have done but couldn't. I like text based email, you like text based email. Unfortunately, it seems relatively few other groups do. :-( As far as whose fault it is, such arguments are futile at best. If you really press the point, people will then point to the fact that other email clients can read the stuff, so why can't PM? A second problem is with the database and backups. I just upgraded to Leopard because of, among other things, Time Machine. I bought a LaCie 2 big Triple 1 TB drive (2 x 500 GB physical drives) and set the second drive as a mirror of the first. Combined with Time Machine, I now have redundant backups plus a whack of extra storage space. PowerMail, however, is the fly in the ointment with its monolithic structure. I know it is not alone in this and Apple clearly had Mail.app in mind when designing Time Machine but neither is Mail.app alone. Thunderbird can be set up so that its parent folders become separate databases; each one allowing a 4 GB file or database in effect. Eudora, though now in legacy mode, is another. The smaller files result in a less onerous automated backup by Time Machine. I can only be thankful that my database is small by the standards of some users here (? 150 MB and growing) through careful pruning of messages that are important in the moment but have no lasting value. It should be pointed out that the same problem would exist with any backup regime but I point to Time Machine as most of us have it and probably more than a few of us are either using it or thinking of using it. It is a slick, automated, no fuss product. Besides, free is good. :-) -- Tim Lapin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Intel iMac OS 10.5.1 PowerMail 5.6.1 1 GB RAM 250 GB HD
