Michael J. Hußmann (26/1/10, 19:58) said: >> 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. > >That might help if some mailboxes were updated much less frequently than >the others.
Exactly. I have mailboxes that are updated infrequently, or not at all - e.g. mailing list mailboxes where previous years are in separate subfolders ("2004", "2005", "2006" etc.) Here in the office, people who have switched from PowerMail to Apple Mail have much smaller backups. Jeremy