Power mails new search capabilty, though faster, has regressed seriously in capabilty. I was looking through my mail stores for info on a program called 'RPGmapmaker'. I wasn't sure if there were spaces in the name or what so I did a search on 'mapmaker' and it turned up nothing. Scratching my head I tried *mapmaker and it still didn't do it. So I tried rpg* and it caught it. Doubting my sanity I tried the same think in Eudora 6 and it caught all tries. I e-mailed the support guys and they confirmed that the search technology only can do a 'start+wildcard' type search (the rpg* attempt). In Eudora you don't even need the wild cards. You can do "rpg", "maker", "map", or for the geeks there's regexps.
They sympathized but didn't venture if a fix was possible or probable. Unfortunately, I rely heavily on search so this kind of makes powermail not a good choice for me.
PowerMail
Powerful alternative email client.
Version: 6.0.3
PM 4.2 and foxtrot has a search regression
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: Hangnail Friday, September 05 2003 @ 05:59 PM PDT
Product Platform: MacOS,MacOSX
Used Product For: One Day
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Not a regression at all - C. Maurer
PowerMail has never done string searches, it has always done indexed searches. It used to search only for the exact word entered, now it can accept a wildcard at the end of a word. That is not a regression. Note that, although string searches are more flexible than indexed searches, each time a file doubles in size, the string search takes twice as long. With large files, indexed searches are very much faster: that is one of PowerMail's advantages.Reply to This
Friday, September 05 2003 @ 06:32 PM PDT