powermail-discuss Digest #2899 - Thursday, November 18, 2010
Re(4): 2 GB limit
by "Mark S. P. Smith"
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Subject: Re(4): 2 GB limit
From: "Mark S. P. Smith"
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:01:30 +
I for one may take Jean Michel up on this offer.
I do not need to get around the 2 GB limit, but being able to search
through all the attachments as well as the message database itself makes
this worth considering. I have some old archived mail folders (for long
dead accounts) which it would also be useful to search occasionally.
Mark
At Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:18:28 +0100, the quick nimble fingers of CTM info
wrote:
>Mark,
>
>On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:01:20 +, Mark S. P. Smith
wrote:
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>>for people trying to work
>>around the 2GB limit, being asked to buy another application is not a
>>good answer, IMHO.
>
>I can agree to this point of view. There is something we can do here: if
>a consensus builds that our approach to indexing archived mail in
>FoxTrot Personal Search is a technically acceptable, second-best
>acceptable option to working around the 2GB max database size (one that
>also has advantages, since:
>- it lets you index the rest of your life, including attachments and
>documents)
>- archiving allows you not to have to backup one huge database at every
>change, i.e. in TimeCapsule
>
>then we would be ready to make these PowerMail owners a fair , one-time
>"offer they can't refuse" on FoxTrot Personal Search. Let me know in
>private e-mail.
>
>On the IMAP topic: I agree too. Since the iPhone came along, personally
>I've been running PowerMail in parallel with the iPhone mail client
>Apple Mail. PowerMail is the client of choice for authoring messages,
>replying to received mail, archiving while I use AppleMail as a "second
>opinion" view on my e-mail accounts, one which has the advantage of
>good, multi-account IMAP and notifications in the dock. The two really
>coexist well.
>
>Kind regards,
>
>jean michel
>
>
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