Something like DayLite by Market Circle?

[Ashley Aitken]

Hi Macs R We (let me guess R is for Rodger ;-),

On 16/08/2007, at 4:25 PM, Macs R We wrote:

>
> On Aug 15, 2007, at 12:00 PM, macosx-talk-request at omnigroup.com wrote:
>
>> Can anyone tell me any reason why Apple Mail (or most other email
>> apps that don't use one big database) wouldn't scale well using lots
>> of folders?    Of course, the beauty of  Apple Mail (and some others)
>> is that, if need be, you can view a hierarchy of folders as a single
>> folder (i.e. it combines all the results).
>
> Ouch!   No, that is decidedly not the case for Apple Mail (Eudora  
> would do this).

Yes, you are right.  I shouldn't have added that statement to my  
question - the question was the focus of my post.

> It is the case for "special" collective mailboxes that Mail  
> assembles itself (like In, Out, and Sent, which are actually more  
> like "smart folders" than folders) but it does not work for folders  
> of mailboxes (or folders of folders of mailboxes, etc.) that you  
> create yourself.

I was confused by the "special" collective mailboxes and this working  
on other mail programs I used.

> You cannot search ONLY one folder of mailboxes, or even multiple  
> top-level mailboxes selected by shift-click or command-click.
>
> You cannot select a folder or range of mailboxes and choose  
> "Rebuild Mailbox" (I think in Panther and older you once could, but  
> no more).
>
> You cannot even click on a folder of mailboxes and view all the  
> messages in the folder -- unless it is one of Apple Mail's  
> "special" collective mailboxes.
>
> All very annoying limitations, especially when you have laid out  
> your mail archives as a subject-searchable historical database  
> comprising hundreds of hierarchical folders of mailboxes.

Yes, I agree.

The one slight plus, of course, is that you can search all mailboxes.

Cheers,
Ashley.

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Ashley Aitken
Perth, Western Australia
mrhatken at mac dot com
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