powermail-discuss Digest #2926 - Friday, December 19, 2008
Re(2): The 2GB limit
by "Speedware Office" <powerm...@speedware.at>
Re: The 2GB limit
by "Kjell Olausson" <kj...@kio.nu>
Importing messages from Eudora 6
by "Tobias Jung" <new...@tobiasjung.net>
Re: The 2GB limit
by "Kjell Olausson" <kj...@kio.nu>
Exported mail databases cannot be imported
by <powerm...@lisauskas.net>
Re: Importing messages from Eudora 6
by "Dave N" <dave.li...@nathanson.org>
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Subject: Re(2): The 2GB limit
From: "Speedware Office" <powerm...@speedware.at>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:01:31 +0100
Jeremy Hughes (jer...@softpress.com) wrote at Do, 18. Dez 2008, 18:04 Uhr:
>Splitting my email database into two (or more) environments seems like a
>poor workaround to me, because it means that I have to switch
>environments every time I want to search through my email. Running two
>copies of PM simultaneously might make this slightly easier, but I still
>have to search twice.
I agree that it would be better to find an appropriate solution to
the problem, but as I am close to the 2 GB limit I can't wait any
longer, specially as it's not known yet, if they are going to fix it at
all. I have to find a solution NOW.
>Currently, the only plan that I have is either (1) switch to another
>email program entirely (probably Apple Mail) or (2) use Apple Mail for
>mailing list emails (some of which are high-volume), and continue using
>PowerMail for other emails.
Yes, that's how I figured it out too, but with two different version of
PM not only with different mailclients.
>You might be able to continue using PowerMail for a bit longer if you
>compact your database regularly (I currently have to do this twice a week).
Same here, but it's not a permanent solution.
Paul
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Subject: Re: The 2GB limit
From: "Kjell Olausson" <kj...@kio.nu>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:20:30 +0100
Jeremy Hughes <jer...@softpress.com> wrote:
>Paul Schneider (18/12/08, 16:50) said:
>
>>As the 2GB limit has not been removed with PM6 but simply bypassed, I have
>>to find another solution to get ride of this limit. The easiest way would
>>be to start two versions of the same program simultaneously or if PM5
and PM6
>>could run at the same time with different accounts and different
>>environments of course. Does anybody have a clue how to handle this?
>
>I don't have any ideas on how to run two versions of PM at the same time
>- but I think this illustrates why the 2 GB limit is a serious problem
>that needs to be fixed properly.
>
>Splitting my email database into two (or more) environments seems like a
>poor workaround to me, because it means that I have to switch
>environments every time I want to search through my email. Running two
>copies of PM simultaneously might make this slightly easier, but I still
>have to search twice.
You can use Spotlight, FoxTrot Professional or Personal Search to search
through my email.
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<http://www.kio.nu>
Kållered, Sweden
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Subject: Importing messages from Eudora 6
From: "Tobias Jung" <new...@tobiasjung.net>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:36:11 +0100
Hello,
currently I'm testing PowerMail to see if it's going to be my next
email client.
Yesterday I imported an Eudora 6.x mailbox file containing about 380
messages. Many messages were imported fine, but 92 message show no
content at all in PM 6. I can see the headers but the full body text
is lost.
This is not just a matter of display, I exported the mail folder in
question then from PM using mbox format and opened the resulting file
with a text editor: Body text is missing there, too.
Moreover, some of those messages are displayed in PM with a "0 K"
size while other claim to have enormous sizes, such as 2 GB. As far
as I can tell, most (maybe all) of the messages were sent by
Microsoft Outlook using HTML format.
Is this a known issue? Is there a way to avoid this?
Kind regards,
Tobias Jung
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Subject: Re: The 2GB limit
From: "Kjell Olausson" <kj...@kio.nu>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:35:47 +0100
Kjell Olausson <kj...@kio.nu> wrote:
>Jeremy Hughes <jer...@softpress.com> wrote:
>
>>Paul Schneider (18/12/08, 16:50) said:
>>
>>>As the 2GB limit has not been removed with PM6 but simply bypassed, I have
>>>to find another solution to get ride of this limit. The easiest way would
>>>be to start two versions of the same program simultaneously or if PM5
>and PM6
>>>could run at the same time with different accounts and different
>>>environments of course. Does anybody have a clue how to handle this?
>>
>>I don't have any ideas on how to run two versions of PM at the same time
>>- but I think this illustrates why the 2 GB limit is a serious problem
>>that needs to be fixed properly.
>>
>>Splitting my email database into two (or more) environments seems like a
>>poor workaround to me, because it means that I have to switch
>>environments every time I want to search through my email. Running two
>>copies of PM simultaneously might make this slightly easier, but I still
>>have to search twice.
>
>You can use Spotlight, FoxTrot Professional or Personal Search to search
>through my email.
Well, not "my email" of course ;-)
--
Regards, Kjell Olausson
<http://www.kio.nu>
Kållered, Sweden
"The best way to make a sponge cake really light? Dip it in petrol."
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Subject: Exported mail databases cannot be imported
From: <powerm...@lisauskas.net>
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:37:24 +0900
Greetings all,
I've just run across a serious problem, for me, and could use any advice
anyone has. I stand to lose years of email if I cannot fix the issue.
Under PowerMail 6, I exported some mail folders using File -> Database -
> Export... for archiving purposes. I would rather have used the new
Archive and Cleanup feature, but apparently no one thought about adding
the ability to select specific folders for Archiving...
So, I exported quite a few folders into the PowerMail Exchange format,
preserving folder hierarchy and including attachments. I then threw all
those exported folders into the Trash, deleted the Trash, and compacted
the Message Database.
I believe the Export actions were successful, as all the exported
databases have different sizes (some are 44kb, others a few MB, and so
on). I believe the attachments were also included, but I have not
verified that yet.
The problem comes when I try to Import those exported databases. When I
import them, I get the folder structure, but there is *no mail at all*
in any of the sub- folders. Messages in the top level folder (if there
were any) are there, but not in any of the sub- folders. By way of example:
Friends
Barb
Bob
Kelsey
Retirement
Trip
Marley
Any messages in Friends are present after importing, but all the mail in
the sub- folders (Barb, Bob, etc.) and sub- sub- folders (Retirement and
Trip) are gone. This is a serious problem.
I've tried rebuilding the sort indexes and search indexes, but that did
not work. I have not tried a low level database rebuild as I do not
have trouble compacting the database.
Does anyone know what might be going wrong? Any advice on how to
recover the messages in those exported message databases?
Tim
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Subject: Re: Importing messages from Eudora 6
From: "Dave N" <dave.li...@nathanson.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:10:10 -0800
Hi, I'm not sure what happened in your case, but the best mail converter
is called Emailchemy from www.WeirdKid.com Not free, but far faster and
better than anything else out there. It can read the native db format of
several major email programs and convert between pretty much any email
system. I recommend it highly. It has a free demo mode, that works, but
obscures the message subject lines.
in reply to (new...@tobiasjung.net), Tobias Jung's message of 3:36 AM,
12/19/08
>Hello,
>
>currently I'm testing PowerMail to see if it's going to be my next
>email client.
>Yesterday I imported an Eudora 6.x mailbox file containing about 380
>messages. Many messages were imported fine, but 92 message show no
>content at all in PM 6. I can see the headers but the full body text
>is lost.
>
>This is not just a matter of display, I exported the mail folder in
>question then from PM using mbox format and opened the resulting file
>with a text editor: Body text is missing there, too.
>Moreover, some of those messages are displayed in PM with a "0 K"
>size while other claim to have enormous sizes, such as 2 GB. As far
>as I can tell, most (maybe all) of the messages were sent by
>Microsoft Outlook using HTML format.
>
>Is this a known issue? Is there a way to avoid this?
>
>Kind regards,
>Tobias Jung
>
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