Sean McBride (9/11/10, 02:31) said:
Which email client are you all switching to? I'm not sure which to
choose
What are the pluses and minuses of switching to Apple Mail?
I know it was hinky in the past, but I think that many of the problems
that it used to suffer from have now been
Jeremy Hughes wrote (Thu, 11 Nov 2010 11:10:14 +):
[Apple Mail]
1. Separate databases for each mailbox rather than a single monolithic
database (this solves the 2GB limit issue and backup problem)
Just to be accurate:
Nowadays Apple Mail saves each _message_ as a single file, MBOX was
Tobias Jung (11/11/10, 13:32) said:
Nowadays Apple Mail saves each _message_ as a single file, MBOX was
dropped with the Tiger version.
You're right...
... and yet searching seems to be very fast (but with fewer options than
PowerMail, unless I'm missing something).
Of course, this also solves
Jeremy Hughes wrote (Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:47:02 +):
Tobias Jung (11/11/10, 13:32) said:
Nowadays Apple Mail saves each _message_ as a single file, MBOX was
dropped with the Tiger version.
You're right...
... and yet searching seems to be very fast (but with fewer options than
On 11-Nov-10, at 9:13 AM, Tobias Jung wrote:
So I merely guessed that there might be people here who don't like
thousands of message files, too.
I like it (conceptually)... don't know that it has a benefit. Might
even hurt as regards system performance, no? I just wish the files
were
I think the idea of one file per folder is an interesting compromise.
The current single large database concept doesn't work anymore. It's bad
for the power users with 2 gig of messages - but it's also very bad for
people using Time Machine style backups. My Time Machine backup probably
is
Jeremy Hughes (jer...@softpress.com) wrote:
I'm not sure what's so wrong with having thousands of message files -
most application packages (e.g. Safari) contain thousands of resource files.
Just try to copy one 1 MB file versus 1000 files of 1 KB each ... Not to
mention that a monolithic
Tobias Jung (new...@tobiasjung.net) wrote:
So my question is: Who is responsible for this?
Is it PowerMail or OS X?
And is it possible to change the default creator code for certain file
types?
I've just checked the attachments and most of the HTML files didn't have
a creator code; also some
George Henne wrote (Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:54:59 -0500):
My Time Machine backup probably
is running 30 minutes out of every hour - and it's all due to Powermail.
I doubt that.
Even under the worst conditions, copying a single 2 GB file shouldn't
take more than a few minutes.
My guess is that
Michael J. Hußmann wrote (Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:13:19 +0200):
I've just checked the attachments and most of the HTML files didn't have
a creator code; also some other types of files were mostly missing
creator codes. Of those which had a creator code assigned I suppose that
they had that code
Michael J. Hußmann (11/11/10, 14:58) said:
Just try to copy one 1 MB file versus 1000 files of 1 KB each
How often do you copy or move your mail folder?
So I'm all for the monolithic database approach. I don't care if a
backup needs to copy the whole file - copying a single file is fast.
Not
Jeremy Hughes (jer...@softpress.com) wrote:
How often do you copy or move your mail folder?
Every time I do a backup. Actually if I do a complete backup, copying
the message database is the fastest part and nothing to worry about;
it's copying the attachments folder that takes time (lots of
Hi,
as database programmer I can say that both approaches have benefits and
drawbacks.
Database:
Pro: fast useage, fast copying
Con: if it's hosed, then it's really kaputt. However, most issues should be
fixable by deleting the index.
Incremental backups are not so easy.
Files:
Pro: simple,
Michael J. Hußmann (11/11/10, 16:43) said:
How often do you copy or move your mail folder?
Every time I do a backup.
Well, I don't know what backup program you use - and you obviously have
much less mail than me since you don't care about the 2GB limit - but my
backups are much larger and
Hi Tobias,
Am 11.11.2010 um 17:23 schrieb Tobias Jung:
Michael J. Hußmann wrote (Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:13:19 +0200):
I've just checked the attachments and most of the HTML files didn't have
a creator code; also some other types of files were mostly missing
creator codes. Of those which had a
I just checked - PowerMail is responsible for 90% of of the backup
activity on my system. (I use TimeMachine). The problem is that if just
one email comes in an hour (which always happens), the complete database
gets backed up again. One database per folder would reduce the backup
requirements
Beatrix Willius wrote (Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:55:58 +0100):
Thanks for checking.
That's really strange, most of the attachments I received do have a
creator code; and _all_ HTML files have MSIE, no matter when I
received them. I really wonder who or what is responsible for this.
this is a
Hi Tobias,
Am 11.11.2010 um 18:17 schrieb Tobias Jung:
Well, thank you, but this (of course) only affects files that already
are stored on your hard disk. But I received a HTML file three days ago
– that's what brought my attention to this matter – and it has the
MSIE creator code, too.
powermail-discuss Digest #2893 - Thursday, November 11, 2010
Re: 2 GB limit
by Jeremy Hughes jer...@softpress.com
Re: 2 GB limit
by Tobias Jung new...@tobiasjung.net
Re: 2 GB limit
by Jeremy Hughes jer...@softpress.com
Re: 2 GB limit
by Tobias Jung
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010, George Henne g...@nsbasic.com wrote:
I just checked - PowerMail is responsible for 90% of of the backup
activity on my system. (I use TimeMachine). The problem is that if just
one email comes in an hour (which always happens), the complete database
gets backed up again. One
I just checked - PowerMail is responsible for 90% of of the backup
activity on my system. (I use TimeMachine). The problem is that if just
one email comes in an hour (which always happens), the complete database
gets backed up again. One database per folder would reduce the backup
requirements
Time machine has some very nice characteristics, but don't use it over a
network.
Check out Crashplan.com -- the basic software is free. I moved my
company to it this summer, and it's working great. The free version does
a backup once a day, or you can buy a version that can do more frequent
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010, George Henne g...@nsbasic.com wrote:
I just checked - PowerMail is responsible for 90% of of the backup
activity on my system. (I use TimeMachine). The problem is that if just
one email comes in an hour (which always happens), the complete database
gets backed up again.
on Thu, Nov 11, 2010 Jeremy Hughes jer...@softpress.com may have said:
Just try to copy one 1 MB file versus 1000 files of 1 KB each
How often do you copy or move your mail folder?
Every day, alternating between a firewire Flash drive and a network
share via XServer 19.6. Speed wise, here's the
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