powermail-discuss Digest #2859 - Thursday, July 8, 2010
Re: multiple installs > one database
by "MB" <digital.disc...@gmail.com>
multi-license discount
by "John Snippe" <j...@snippe.ca>
Re: multiple installs > one database
by "John Snippe" <j...@snippe.ca>
Re: multiple installs > one database
by "MB" <digital.disc...@gmail.com>
Re: multiple installs > one database
by "Powermail" <p...@schmidt-system.de>
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Subject: Re: multiple installs > one database
From: "MB" <digital.disc...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 12:43:12 +0200
*John Snippe asked:
>So my question is two-fold: it is possible to have 3 or more installs
>of Powermail be able to access a single database folder
It's certainly possible but not likely to be practical unless you're on
the same stable network subnet.
>, and/or is it
>possible for more than one user to access a database folder at a time,
It's not possible nor would it be recommended to even attempt it.
*Beatrix Willius said:
>IMAP was designed for this sort of problem.
That could be said, however this is ruling out PowerMail as a client
IMHO as the IMAP-support is very basic. But this does depend on the
amount of traffic of course. I do check webmail accounts with more
sporadic traffic via IMAP in PowerMail.
Unfortunately leaving the messages on server and fetching via POP from
multiple locations is inadvisable as PowerMail more often than other
clients in my experience misses to fetch occasional messages and fetches
a lot of duplicates as well, at least so on high volume accounts. And
this with only one DB and one client in one location. It's a drag really.
MB
Technoids:
PM 6.0.5 build 4621 sv | OS X 10.5.8 | PowerMac G5 Dual 2.0 | 4GB / 1.5TB
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Subject: multi-license discount
From: "John Snippe" <j...@snippe.ca>
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 07:59:32 -0400
I filled in the form asking for a promo code for multi-license
discounting on the ctmdev website, but nobody seems to be listening...
are they on holidays?
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John Snippe
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Subject: Re: multiple installs > one database
From: "John Snippe" <j...@snippe.ca>
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 08:02:44 -0400
On 8-Jul-10, at 6:43 AM, MB wrote:
> That could be said, however this is ruling out PowerMail as a client
> IMHO as the IMAP-support is very basic. But this does depend on the
> amount of traffic of course. I do check webmail accounts with more
> sporadic traffic via IMAP in PowerMail
Yes, that's an option I am looking at. We have Squirrel on the
server... but it's REALLY not pwermail, is it?!?
I wonder if "environments" will help with the corruption issue... it
could limit database access to a 'one user - multiple points of
access' situation, which would stop update collisions and that
inherent risk of corruption. Yes/no?
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John Snippe
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Subject: Re: multiple installs > one database
From: "MB" <digital.disc...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 14:10:29 +0200
John Snippe said:
>I wonder if "environments" will help with the corruption issue... it
>could limit database access to a 'one user - multiple points of
>access' situation, which would stop update collisions and that
>inherent risk of corruption. Yes/no?
I didn't get there was multiple users, just multiple accounts. So this
involves many users?
Why would many users even be sharing the same environment or even the
same OS X account? There's benefit somewhere?
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Subject: Re: multiple installs > one database
From: "Powermail" <p...@schmidt-system.de>
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:53:15 +0200
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Am 08.07.10 14:02, schrieb John Snippe:
>
> On 8-Jul-10, at 6:43 AM, MB wrote:
>
>> That could be said, however this is ruling out PowerMail as a client
>> IMHO as the IMAP-support is very basic. But this does depend on the
>> amount of traffic of course. I do check webmail accounts with more
>> sporadic traffic via IMAP in PowerMail
>
> Yes, that's an option I am looking at. We have Squirrel on the
> server... but it's REALLY not pwermail, is it?!?
Squirrel is like Roundcube a Webmail frontend for Cyrrus or Dovecot IMAP
Server. This has nothing to do with Powermail.
>
> I wonder if "environments" will help with the corruption issue... it
> could limit database access to a 'one user - multiple points of access'
> situation, which would stop update collisions and that inherent risk of
> corruption. Yes/no?
Environments are different databases in Powermail.
That what you try to achieve is best done with IMAP.
If you are having more than 1 mail-account, I'd look into different
mailclients, like Apple Mail or Thunderbird for that.
Powermail was imho not really designed as a IMAP frontend, but as a POP
Mailclient. The clear GUI and the well designed search function of
Powermail is uncompareable to other mail clients, but if you need to
extensivly work with IMAP and/or PGP PM is not the best choice.
cheers
Matthias
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