Hi Olaf, > did you verify? The various experiences in our company showed durign > the > past few years that many email clients begin to suffer from stability > problems, at least once the amount of emails/data reaches a certain > size. > With Claris Emailer I hit the 1 GB barrier a few years ago (and > actually > switched to PowerMail, kind of overnight...). Microsoft products are a > non-option to me (they are simply too flakey too often). Eudora was a > nightmare on Mac last time I checked.
I agree with you on the MS options and Eudora never looked good for me in the past so I haven't checked it out in a long time. While all programs certainly are not without their potential problems, it is shipped out with every copy of OSX. If there were the kinds of problems with Mail that PM users have expressed here, I think I'd have heard about it because the number of people affected would be huge. Not saying Mail is perfect, only that it doesn't appear to have fundamental stability issues. > Anyone tried Apple Mail long enought to accumulate hundreds of > thousands > of emails? And still see smooth behavior? And what about searching (a > huge plus in PM) I moved about 50,000 emails over to Mail (I purged about 50,000 before migration) and have been using Mail for about two weeks now. It is smooth and fast. The search function of Mail is inferior to PM in terms of how it functions, but it can find what I need when I need it. Many of the small things I love about PM are absent in Mail. Others are simply different and I am already getting used to them. > By now I think if CTM could add maximum stability to PowerMail they'd > have an email client that significantly differentiates itself from any > other client. This is why I stuck it out with PowerMail for as long as I did. But 16-18 hour database rebuilds are unacceptable, and I had to suffer through almost a dozen of them within a short period of time. I figured that if I could get my database corruption fixed I would risk sticking with PowerMail. Unfortunately, PM suddenly refused to load my DB and all the First Aid options failed to change that. That was the last straw. When I used the 3rd party recovery tool (trial version) it fairly quickly identified all the corrupted emails. Why can't PM do this? If I had paid $50 I probably could have had all my problems solved. But on principle I refused to do this. Paying $50 to fix a $50 program, when that program should be able to fix itself, is simply not right. Switching to Mail was the least bad choice of the options available to me. I am happy to have email stability again, but unhappy I had to abandon PowerMail to get it. I'll stick around this support list for a few more days, then I'll figure out how to get myself removed from it. If I ever hear that PM's issues have been resolved I'll consider moving back over to it. Until then... it's Apple's Mail for me. Steve
