Re: Most problems fixed, but one remains
On 12 11 2004 at 5:16 pm -0500, Steve Grammont wrote: From my earlier stability problems Jerome said When a crash occurs on IDLE, there is no rebuild. That is the correct answer. Unfortunately, that isn't my experience. And since this is happening regularly, that indicates to me that something is not right with PowerMail even if I am the only one experiencing this problem. How do you know that PowerMail is idle (i.e., not writing to the database) at the time your system is going down? Maybe there is an electrical problem with a hard drive, such that PM begins to check mail, spins up disk, starts to write, loses power. Of course I am purely speculating. But if a file is left in an inconsistent state on disk, it will result in data loss or at least necessitate maintenance; since that is the symptom, we can induce that for SOME REASON the database is in use or otherwise inconsistent when your system dies. To give confidence in PowerMail's robustness, I just saved this message as I was typing it, then force-quit PowerMail point blank. I then restarted it, and up it came -- no database recovery or re-indexing required. Therefore, absent your observation of what the system is doing when it dies, I would tend to believe that disk activity may well be going on. -ben -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician zygoat creative technical services 613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628 http://www.zygoat.ca
Most problems fixed, but one remains
Hi there, Jerome's suggestions appear to have fixed my major problems with PowerMail stability under 10.2.8. However, one remains. My system, for some unknown reason, occasionally crashes and shuts down when left unattended. It doesn't happen very often, but when it does PowerMail almost always boots up with something corrupted. Today this happened and the Search Index was corrupted and is currently (slowly) rebuilding. I have no idea what is causing the crashes. Nothing is showing up in the logs except in the DirectoryService.error.log: Can't unregister node ~BSD Configuration Files~Local since not registered There are tons of these errors so I don't think this is directly related to the crashes. But whatever the case is, my system is idle, PowerMail is idle, and only one or two idle applications are open (IE, SpamSeive, Excalibur). So why do I have PowerMail corruption problems so consistently? Steve
Re: Paste Address function
Am 11.11.2004 hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] geschrieben: One little utility that would be useful to me a paste-address contextual command. I frequently find myself needed to type somebody's email address into the text of the a message. I end up go up to the address box and entering the name, the cutting and pasting it into the text and the deleting it from the address box. It would be much less klunky to have a contextual menu item called PASTE ADDRESS that would bring up a scrolling menu of email addresses and I can select one or more and have them pasted into the body. Well you have this copy'n'paste - with the Apple Addressbook! Open it while you're in PowerMail (I hope you have the Addressbook-icon in the menu-icon-part?). Go to the address you want to copy. Go to the icon of this address (the little profile-face). Take it with the mouse and bring it into your mail-text. You got-it?
