powermail-discuss Digest #2889 - Thursday, September 18, 2008
Re(3): One other wish for PM6
by "Alan Harper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re(3): One other wish for PM6
From: "Alan Harper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:20:48 -0700
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.
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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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>My company's software had an issue with quicktime playing audio in a
>threaded environment - so I turned off sound alerts...no difference.
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>Hopefully time and new releases will solve this problem for me, and others.
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>>Am/On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 10:26:15 -0700 schrieb/wrote Alan Harper (by way
>>of Alan Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>):
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>>>1) Index html emails.
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>>agreed.
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>>>
>>>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!
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>>this would be pretty uncommon.
>>In this case the subject is filled with <No subject> and this is imho
>>the correct behaviour.
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>>Maybe an incoming mailfilter could do the rewrite according everyones
wishes.
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>>>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.
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>>yes, this might also cure one kind of crash I rarely observe.
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>>>
>>>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.
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>>you can switch the dialog off in the preferences.
>>Growl sounds like a good idea.
>>
>>>
>>>5) Stop random crashes.
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>>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.
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>>Thanks and all the best
>>
>>Matthias
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