> Display speed: > I've never known PM to display messages or message lists at anything > less > than lightning speed. Admittedly I'm on a G5, but even so it makes me > wonder if this is something more to do with your set up rather than a > problem intrinsic to PM itself. It's just text sifted from a database > after all, and shouldn't be slow to display.
I extensively searched for an answer to this speed problem several months ago, and I found that most people claim they don't see a problem. The only thing I could to do speed it up was to remove some of the columns being displayed. I reduced the columns down to the minimum set I would put up with, which helped a little. Other applications displayed list views much faster than PowerMail. I have a 2GHz G5, and it draws fairly fast, but still not nearly as fast as I would expect. I recently upgraded to a new 1.5GHz Powerbook (from 550MHz), and it still was pretty slow. And on top of that, it took about a minute to start up, and I couldn't figure out why. (I neglected to mention this in my original email.) I even rebuilt the database, and it didn't help. Maybe it was trying to access files no longer accessible? I don't know. My tolerance was running out at this point. I tried OS X Mail, and it did pretty much everything I needed, so I started the conversion process. It was amazingly painless to convert my old mailboxes. > Address book: > My copy of PM stays in sync with my Apple address book just fine. I > have > them set so that PMAB updates itself from the Apple AB, but *not* the > other way around (ie. PM doesn't pass info back to the AAB). I had a > little trouble when I first set it up (both tried to sync with each > other, and since the PM address book was empty at that point it wiped > out > half my Apple AB, hence my decision to use one as a 'master' and one > as a > 'slave'). This is exactly my setup. Whenever I added a new address to the address book, it wouldn't add it to AAB. And it opened up the PMAB entry instead of the AAB, even though I had "Open in AAB" enabled. And sometimes when I added a new address to AAB, it wouldn't sync into PMAB. I had to clear PMAB and do an import from scratch. > If yours refuses to stay in synch then perhaps there is a corrupt > preference. Same goes for the not opening in AAB properly; my prefs are > set to open addresses in Apple AB, and if I double click an address in > a > PM message it opens up in AAB as expected. If the address is in my PM > address book but not in the AAB (as some are, like this group for > example) then it opens up in PM's address book instead. If your address > books are not synching then perhaps this is the reason that things are > not opening up in the AAB? Maybe a corrupt preference is the answer. I didn't think of dumping my prefs file. > Network absence: > You can get rid of the dialogue boxes by going to preferences > > Notifications and deselecting the 'Display Alert' checkbox under 'Error > notification'. I just have a sound played when there is difficulty > accessing an email account, so there is no dialogue box to dismiss > (IIRC, > those dialogue boxes would suspend other PM activity until dismissed, > which I always thought was rather odd, OS9-like behaviour). True. I tried to get rid of the error altogether by enabling "Automatically access the network only if it is already available", but it didn't help. > Whichever way you decide to jump, Dan, I wish you the best of luck. > Cheerio; Thanks for the feedback! I've gotten a lot of good help from this email list over the past few years. Dan
