Thanks, I did everything right the first time...I guess powermail is
just too risky for me...I need reliability and it appears powermail
doesn't have it.
Robert
On Mar 24, 2007, at 9:28 PM, Barbara Needham wrote:
Robert Morrison on 3/24/07 said
On Mar 24, 2007, at 7:23 PM, Barbara Needham wrote:
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?
Yes
Was it from panther or tiger?
Tiger
how did you switch?
I made folders in mail with the messages I wanted in powermail and
then imported those folders into powermail. I then moved the
messages around in powermail...including putting some of them in the
in tray.
Do you know how big your pm database was when working? There is a 2
gb limit.
I noticed that my message database was about 700mb, but my address
book database was 2gb...which was kind of weird. I'm not sure what
the difference between the message and address book databases are.
The address database is just an address book which more or less can be
kept in synch with your apple address book, if you so choose.
The message database has all the actual bodies of messages.
Attachments are downloaded to a separate folder, even those things
like
"line.gif" which come up when people use stationery for their mail.
If I were you and the messages in the last couple of days are still on
your server or otherwise retrievable...
I would import into PowerMail folder by folder and make sure things
are
working correctly after each import.
However, since you'll probably end up doing that anyway if the
database
rebuild doesn't work.. might as well try it first.
I find it better when doing the first aid bits on power mail to try
one
at a time.
Hopefully someone else with more experience will chime in...
--
Barbara Needham
