Mail is not such a nice storage system finally...

By Alan Schmitt on July 1, 2006 3:31 PM | Permalink

I've come back from the experiment I did a few weeks ago, for several reasons.

Spotlight does not index the content of attachments, so if I store a pdf in a mail message, I won't be able to find it by its content. This is a major drawback for me as I rely more and more on spotlight (along with Quicksilver).
Mail.app does not seem to be able to deal with the amount of mails generated by newspipe (the RSS feeds to mail I mentioned a few days ago). NetNewsWire is pretty useful, and lets me very easily open interesting things in the background with OmniWeb.

So it's back to square one for this. But I make sure I have automatic backup of my Yojimbo database every night ;-).