Tobias Jung (22/1/10, 11:37) said: >Don't get my wrong - I don't want to critisize or anything, I'm really >just curios: >How many messages do you get?
242179 messages at the moment. I've recently had to prune the database to continue using it. >I'm using PowerMail for a year now and PowerMail's DB roughly has 125 >MB. So even if the number of messages will increase a LOT, it'll be I've been using PowerMail for maybe eight years, and Claris Emailer for about six years before that. The only way I have managed to continue using PowerMail is by moving some of my older mailing list emails (Carbon-Dev, Cocoa-Dev etc.) into Apple Mail. Which means I can't search them in PowerMail. >And even then, it'll be sufficient for me to use PMs »Archive and >Cleanup Assistant« - I really don't need to search messages that, say, >more than three years old on a daily basis so I wouldn't mind to switch >the User Environment for this. I didn't find User Environments to be a satisfactory solution. The other thing that I find tiresome with PowerMail's monolithic database is that the entire database needs to be backed up on a daily basis. With Apple Mail, the only mailboxes that get backed up in an incremental backup are the ones that have new emails. If you use (and feel secure using) a backup program that works at a lower level than system files (i.e. not Retrospect or Time Machine), this might be less of a problem. Jeremy
