Robert Morrison on 3/24/07 said >I'm new to powermail...having just switched from apple mail. I just >spent about a day and a half getting about 20,000 mail messages >systematically transfered over from mail into powermail, setting up 8 >email accounts, locations and quite a few filters. Everything was >working great on my mac book and then I went to power up powermail to >check email and I got an error message while opening that there was a >problem in the database. I tried a couple of times...but got the >same error. > >I then tried to rebuild things by doing a option/command while >starting powermail. I checked everything except the low level >rebuild. It took about an hour and what I got was nothing like what >I had before. All my accounts and filters were gone as were location >settings. All my folders were also gone and all that was there was a >giant folder which looks like it was created from some apple mail >files...but was not what I had before. > >Please help...I'm panicked at best. I appear to have lost several >days work as well as all my email since I changed over. Should I do >a low level rebuild? I have no idea what happened.
Do you still have your apple mail? Was it from panther or tiger? how did you switch? Do you know how big your pm database was when working? There is a 2 gb limit. -- Barbara Needham
