Jeremy Hughes ([email protected]) wrote: > I've been using PowerMail for maybe eight years, and Claris Emailer for > about six years before that. The only way I have managed to continue > using PowerMail is by moving some of my older mailing list emails > (Carbon-Dev, Cocoa-Dev etc.) into Apple Mail. Which means I can't search > them in PowerMail.
I've been using PowerMail for 9 or 10 years and still I am not likely to hit the 2 GB limit anytime soon. I guess some people archive more mails than others. It would certainly be preferrable if the GB limit limit was eventually lifted, but it isn't a pressing issue for me. > The other thing that I find tiresome with PowerMail's monolithic > database is that the entire database needs to be backed up on a daily > basis. With Apple Mail, the only mailboxes that get backed up in an > incremental backup are the ones that have new emails. That might help if some mailboxes were updated much less frequently than the others. In my case I don't really see how I could divide incoming mail in such a way that all of the mailboxes wouldn't be updated on a daily basis anyway. So while maintaining one or even more than one message database does create issues with some backup strategies, I don't see any obvious solution - one database per mailbox might be a better solution for some users, but not for all. Storing messages as individual files would solve this particular issue, but at the same time create other issues. It would be nice if PowerMail had its own built-in backup solution synchronizing its databases with backup databases at regular and user- selectable intervals. Michael J. Hußmann E-mail: [email protected] WWW (personal): http://michael-hussmann.de WWW (professional): http://digicam-experts.de
