powermail-discuss Digest #2877 - Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Re: bye bye PowerMail
by "MB" <digital.disc...@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: bye bye PowerMail
From: "MB" <digital.disc...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:55:09 +0200
Tim lapin said:
>I have not yet played with Apple Mail enough yet to get a sense of its
>abilities to handle such things but I can't imagine it would be any
>different from the rest of the better ones.
Zero duplicates in my experience with tens of thousands of messages with
Apple Mail. But it does not matter much with specific figures from
different people. It's still anecdotal data. Also, an actual comparison
has to be made with a reliable control, such as webmail and counting the
messages in some acceptable way in order to get a figure to compare with.
Then running analytical tools on a POP connection log for a long time on
affected accounts could perhaps turn up some patterns that could be a
foundation for finding a solution. Or anyone have a better idea?
Given that POP is the offender - if that is so - isn't quite amusing
that so few email clients have handing of duplicates built-in? It's not
like it can't be done.
I translated such a duplicates script to PowerMail years ago and at
least 10 people have used it in some version. After all, getting
duplicates and getting rid of them safely is way better than losing messages.
I was working - also years ago - on another script for getting
discussion threads based o the current message, hit a wall and later
CTM implemented thread searches. I wish they would have done the same
for duplicates. If so, getting messages re-downloaded would not be such
a nuisance. I have had tens of thousands of duplicates during the
years. It's possible that my connections have been more bad than others,
I can't really say for sure. But other connection critical connections
have not been dropped often enough to manifest problems.
When I ran my own server (Mac OS X Server), connections worked very well
and other accounts were not affected as far as the account holders were
concerned. Still, I had this problem there. I posted data from there
back then, but maybe too little.
While I can handle duplicates via scripting they still turn up under new
messages and take up mindspace. I suppose I could make a filter based on
date, get to the parent folder in question and run the script on the
folders older messages and set the filter to not make them hit new
messages, but then again that would really slow down my mailfetching,
which I normally do every few minutes or every hour or so. Also I don't
have time writing scripts to patch PowerMail anymore.
In the end it's not about the the email client, it's about the messages.
Anything getting in the way of my messages have to go.
Technoids:
PM 6.0.5 build 4621 sv | OS X 10.5.8 | PowerMac G5 Dual 2.0 | 4GB / 1.5TB/MB
/MB
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