Panther 10.3.3, PB 800, 1Gig Ram 1) After forgetting that I had the registration key and launching the first time into 'Demo mode', dropping the key on the application worked as expected.
"Upgrading to PowerMail 5" in Release Notes mentions "updating your database or creating a new one" but provides no details. The "Upgrade from PowerMail 3-4.webloc" document, pointing to <http://www.ctmdev.com/ upgrade/start>, brought up a "Not Found" page. Thanks to the List, I was able to figure out that I needed to use File/ Database/Switch User Environment (not Import) to get my existing PM stuff to work with 5. This should be better documented, or included in a PM dialog to avoid confusion. After a 20-30 minute conversion, all my scripts, signatures, config, and filters came through beautifully. Speed and interface improvements are awesome! 2) By default my Cocoa toolbar in Recent Mail and opened mail documents was 'hidden', so I had some brief confusion about the absence of the Paper Clip and Send buttons. I used the silver button on the far right to toggle it. 3) I agree with those who believe the "In Tray" and "Out Tray" icons should have little arrows on them. 4) I don't use Spamsieve. My PM-only filters are about 99% effective. I had my own 'Spam' folder, so had to change the name of that and then modify the filters to put SPAM in the new SPAM folder. I had previously set these filters to first put SPAM in Trash and then move it to SPAM folder, so that filtered SPAM would not appear in 'Recent Mail'. [Thanks to whomever provided that tip on the List!] Is there some automatic settiing for that now with 5? 5) The List Pop-up button (which appears at the bottom when you open a List mail) is great! Can we get the PM list to support more of these options such as "List Owner" and "List Archive"? 6) I would STILL LOVE to see a "Reply to List Post" option that would parse the selection from a Digest with a Reply sent to the list, but quoting the "From:" field of the selected post, and using the "Subject" from the selection instead of "PowerMail discussion digest blah, blah". There was an Applescript (or was it Emailer Tools?) that did this in the old days. 7) I don't care much about HTML mail, but I would like to see a little picture of the sender and/or recipient of mail when there is a picture available in Apple's Address book, the way iChat and Apple Mail do. :-) 8) Minor Request: In Setup/Mail Filters (dialog), I would like to quickly review my existing filters. Tried to do this by starting with the list at the top and using [Down Arrow]. This works the first time, jumping to the second filter, but the next [Down Arrow] takes the curser to the active field in the "Conditions" section of the dialog, and then the arrow keys control the cursor within the selected field. [Tab] and [Shift] + [Tab] move me nicely from field to field and eventually re-activate the Filter List. Modifiers don't appear to have any effect on the arrow keys when in the Filter List. The fastest way I could figure to key through the Filter List was to use the mouse. With the keyboard, it was: [Down Arrow] [Tab] [Tab] (Number of further tabs depends on complexity of filter) until Filter List is active Repeat. I would like, with the Filter List active, to be able to [Down Arrow] my way through my filters. Many thanks to CTMdev and all of you who contributed to this new version! - Chris =================================================== ** CHRIS'S UNPREDICTABLE and OCCASIONAL Newsletter for Mac Users ** ===================================================
