I get frequent random crashes. i.e. 5-7 per week. Most don't require any rebuilds, some require sorting index rebuilds.
After watching these for a long time, I believe they are related to receiving email while performing some user activity -- long user activities that often result in crashes are drag events and executing applescripts with dialogs, like renaming subject line. I have frequent mail checks, and I get approx 900 messages a day (until our new hardware spam filter gets installed) so the difference between my experiences and others just may be due to the frequency of incoming messages, and thus the conflicts that could result in a crash. I carry my email database between two different machines with similar behavior on both - one an 8 core mac pro, the other a Macbook pro. Clearly there may be some other common element...but so far, I've not found any known conflicts with any other piece of software, and I run a LOT of software. My company's software had an issue with quicktime playing audio in a threaded environment - so I turned off sound alerts...no difference. Hopefully time and new releases will solve this problem for me, and others. +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Bill Schjelderup, President [EMAIL PROTECTED] COMPanion Corporation 801-365-0555 voice 1831 Fort Union Blvd. 801-943-7752 fax Salt Lake City, Utah 84121-3041 www.companioncorp.com +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Nusquam est qui ubique est. - He who is everywhere is nowhere. This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are NOT the intended recipient, I'm sorry to bother you and will attempt to address my messages more carefully in the future. >Am/On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 10:26:15 -0700 schrieb/wrote Alan Harper (by way >of Alan Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): > >>1) Index html emails. > >agreed. > >> >>2) For emails that do not have a name in the From field, guess the name >>from the Address Book, and include the guessed name in the index and in >>the "From" column. This way when I am looking for emails from Bruce, I >>don't need to search on "Bruce1954yahoo" or whatever he was using that year! > >this would be pretty uncommon. >In this case the subject is filled with <No subject> and this is imho >the correct behaviour. > >Maybe an incoming mailfilter could do the rewrite according everyones wishes. > >> >>3) Don't be so eager to check email. When I wake up my laptop, wait a >>few seconds before checking and let the wireless connection come up. > >yes, this might also cure one kind of crash I rarely observe. > >> >>4) Give me one error message when you can't get email (because, eg, >>wireless is down). Don't give me one modal dialog for each account! Even >>better, use Growl. > >you can switch the dialog off in the preferences. >Growl sounds like a good idea. > >> >>5) Stop random crashes. > >I don't see any random crashes. >Crashes I observe are either connected to the IP stack, which stops >responding after the MacBook was asleep or to text encodings in >connection with a strange html mail. > > > >Thanks and all the best > >Matthias > > >
