For what it is worth, I have had seven random crashes of PowerMail from 9/3 to 9/18--ie about 1/2 the rate that Bill sees.
The crashes follow no pattern--sometimes when dragging an attachment, sometimes when running an item from the script menu, sometimes when I am away from the computer. I have sent PM engineering reports for these crashes. A Bill Schjelderup ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said on 9/3/08: >I get frequent random crashes. i.e. 5-7 per week. Most don't require any >rebuilds, some require sorting index rebuilds. > >After watching these for a long time, I believe they are related to >receiving email while performing some user activity -- long user >activities that often result in crashes are drag events and executing >applescripts with dialogs, like renaming subject line. > >I have frequent mail checks, and I get approx 900 messages a day (until >our new hardware spam filter gets installed) so the difference between >my experiences and others just may be due to the frequency of incoming >messages, and thus the conflicts that could result in a crash. > >I carry my email database between two different machines with similar >behavior on both - one an 8 core mac pro, the other a Macbook pro. >Clearly there may be some other common element...but so far, I've not >found any known conflicts with any other piece of software, and I run a >LOT of software. > >My company's software had an issue with quicktime playing audio in a >threaded environment - so I turned off sound alerts...no difference. > >Hopefully time and new releases will solve this problem for me, and others. > >+-----------------------------------------------------------+ > Bill Schjelderup, President [EMAIL PROTECTED] > COMPanion Corporation 801-365-0555 voice > 1831 Fort Union Blvd. 801-943-7752 fax > Salt Lake City, Utah 84121-3041 www.companioncorp.com >+-----------------------------------------------------------+ >Nusquam est qui ubique est. - He who is everywhere is nowhere. >This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and >may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized >review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are NOT >the intended recipient, I'm sorry to bother you and will attempt to >address my messages more carefully in the future. > >>Am/On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 10:26:15 -0700 schrieb/wrote Alan Harper (by way >>of Alan Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): >> >>>1) Index html emails. >> >>agreed. >> >>> >>>2) For emails that do not have a name in the From field, guess the name >>>from the Address Book, and include the guessed name in the index and in >>>the "From" column. This way when I am looking for emails from Bruce, I >>>don't need to search on "Bruce1954yahoo" or whatever he was using that year! >> >>this would be pretty uncommon. >>In this case the subject is filled with <No subject> and this is imho >>the correct behaviour. >> >>Maybe an incoming mailfilter could do the rewrite according everyones wishes. >> >>> >>>3) Don't be so eager to check email. When I wake up my laptop, wait a >>>few seconds before checking and let the wireless connection come up. >> >>yes, this might also cure one kind of crash I rarely observe. >> >>> >>>4) Give me one error message when you can't get email (because, eg, >>>wireless is down). Don't give me one modal dialog for each account! Even >>>better, use Growl. >> >>you can switch the dialog off in the preferences. >>Growl sounds like a good idea. >> >>> >>>5) Stop random crashes. >> >>I don't see any random crashes. >>Crashes I observe are either connected to the IP stack, which stops >>responding after the MacBook was asleep or to text encodings in >>connection with a strange html mail. >> >> >> >>Thanks and all the best >> >>Matthias >> >> >> > > > >
