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mikenolte started following the problem "Adding two RSS accounts" in Postbox, Inc..

mikenolte started following the problem "Message still in Draft folder after being sent - GMail IMAP" in Postbox, Inc..

mikenolte started following the problem "Postbox icon not bouncing in dock (Mac)" in Postbox, Inc..

mikenolte started following the problem "PostBox Jumps Spaces in Mac OS X (10.5.6)" in Postbox, Inc..

mikenolte started following the problem "Postbox does not respect system-wide Date & Time settings on Mac OS X." in Postbox, Inc..

mikenolte started following the problem "Address Book entries require an email address." in Postbox, Inc..

mikenolte started following the problem "IMAP IDLE support is broken." in Postbox, Inc..

mikenolte started following the problem "Using Command-D to send a Don't Save request" in Postbox, Inc..

mikenolte started following the problem "Filtering lacks important options" in Postbox, Inc..

mikenolte started following the problem "iCal invite attachment comes up as text" in Postbox, Inc..

mikenolte started following the problem "Postbox OSX pegs CPU" in Postbox, Inc..

mikenolte started following the problem "Postbox integration with iCal and other Mac apps" in Postbox, Inc..

mikenolte replied on July 30, 2009 10:57 to the praise "The best email application for the Mac." in Postbox, Inc.:

Actually Postbox has been banned from corporate use along with Entourage and the other usual suspects due do to its horrible way of storing data.

Just head over to the problems thread and read "Storage in monolithic mail files make back-up a huge pain". It's been the top problem thread for months and Postbox developers haven't even posted a comment there yet.

A comment on the problem "Storage in mail files make back-up difficult" in Postbox, Inc.:

I already answer to this sort of "recommendation" five months ago:

"I couldn't switch to IMAP even if I wanted to.

I must have access to my e-mail whenever I have access to my Mac without depending on access to the internet or my local network. E-mail just has to be permanently available no matter where I've taken my MacBook Pro to.

Apart from that keeping e-mail outside of my Mac would mean that I couldn't use Spotlight to search my e-mail and that would probably mean I might be spending more time searching for an e-mail than actually reading it. ( Delete )"

And just in case it managed to escape your attention: I do NOT use a Windows-PC. – mikenolte, on July 30, 2009 10:48

mikenolte replied on June 10, 2009 05:09 to the problem "Storage in mail files make back-up difficult" in Postbox, Inc.:

Meanwhile this problem has been the most "popular" problem for over three months in a row and still no employee has ever officially commented this.

Let's face it: They just don't care.

A comment on the problem "Storage in mail files make back-up difficult" in Postbox, Inc.:

> There are many people who for example use FAT32 partition

Might I bring back to your attention that all your ranting about how probable FAT32 usage might is quite pointless while we are still discussing a Mac OS X issue?

FAT32 is not an option for Mac OS X users. Mac OS X users do not have problems related to having many files in a single directory.

> Maybe you should blame Apple and their retarded way to backup things...

Well, maybe I should. But right now I'm quite happy with blaming Postbox for its even more retarded way to store e-mail in the first place. – mikenolte, on June 10, 2009 05:02

A comment on the problem "Storage in mail files make back-up difficult" in Postbox, Inc.:

> It would be nice to compare Postbox when using one file per message

Yes, that would be really, really nice, because that would mean we'd have the option to store e-mail properly and we could stop worrying about this monolithic nonsense.

BTW: If you have a monolithic 500 MB e-mail database you'll propably be safe to bet on that taking longer to back-up then the changes of the last hour no matter how many different little files last hour's e-mail would stored in. – mikenolte, on June 10, 2009 04:44

A comment on the problem "Storage in mail files make back-up difficult" in Postbox, Inc.:

I wouldn't wait for that to happen.

This was a problem in Thunderbird from the start and I'm ready to bet they knew about this even before they started thinking about Postbox.

They had their backs to the wall in Thunderbird and there's nothing new to say about Postbox.

Sticking their heads in the sands and quietly pretending there is no problem is all they can do. Postbox has already joined Thunderbird on corporate ban lists and apparently they simply don't care. – mikenolte, on April 18, 2009 10:05

A comment on the problem "Storage in mail files make back-up difficult" in Postbox, Inc.:

Actually they did "choose" this because they opted to just slap some eye-candy on Thunderbird and call it "development". Adding a method to properly store one file per e-mail would have been a lot less work than a couple of other things they introduced to Postbox. – mikenolte, on April 18, 2009 10:00

A comment on the problem "Storage in mail files make back-up difficult" in Postbox, Inc.:

@gensuke72:

Since there is no Postbox version for Solaris, we won't have to worry about that at all.

Don't waste your energy on too many variations of trying to compensate a problem you had way back when computers were still steam driven on a platform nobody can use to run Postbox on.

Whether or not manually managing a single directory with thousand of files was a big pain does not matter either because usually nobody will ever be manually working in that directory anyway.

> creation of several subdirs in order to store single emails, something like
> year/month/day/emailfile00x.eml

E-mail clients that store one file per e-mail exists for all platforms Postbox is running on and there are no problems related to having many files in the directories that store those e-mail files. It's not like we're discussing a hypothetical method here. One file per e-mail is simply the proper way to do it.

> You would need a tool to eventually consolidate and export the emails towards
> other clients in case you need/want to go back to Mail, Outlook and he like.

Not really a separate tool. Just the usual ability to export to mbox that any proper mail client will be able to import. Since Postbox already stores to mbox files that shouldn't be too hard to do. :-)

Postbox will need a proper export function anyway because creating a lock-in situation is another reason to get banned from corporate environments. – mikenolte, on April 18, 2009 09:48