I for one may take Jean Michel up on this offer. I do not need to get around the 2 GB limit, but being able to search through all the attachments as well as the message database itself makes this worth considering. I have some old archived mail folders (for long dead accounts) which it would also be useful to search occasionally.
Mark At Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:18:28 +0100, the quick nimble fingers of CTM info wrote: >Mark, > >On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:01:20 +0000, Mark S. P. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > >>for people trying to work >>around the 2GB limit, being asked to buy another application is not a >>good answer, IMHO. > >I can agree to this point of view. There is something we can do here: if >a consensus builds that our approach to indexing archived mail in >FoxTrot Personal Search is a technically acceptable, second-best >acceptable option to working around the 2GB max database size (one that >also has advantages, since: >- it lets you index the rest of your life, including attachments and >documents) >- archiving allows you not to have to backup one huge database at every >change, i.e. in TimeCapsule > >then we would be ready to make these PowerMail owners a fair , one-time >"offer they can't refuse" on FoxTrot Personal Search. Let me know in >private e-mail. > >On the IMAP topic: I agree too. Since the iPhone came along, personally >I've been running PowerMail in parallel with the iPhone mail client >Apple Mail. PowerMail is the client of choice for authoring messages, >replying to received mail, archiving while I use AppleMail as a "second >opinion" view on my e-mail accounts, one which has the advantage of >good, multi-account IMAP and notifications in the dock. The two really >coexist well. > >Kind regards, > >jean michel > >
