powermail-discuss Digest #2796 - Thursday, February 21, 2008
Make PM default program
by "Roland Kayser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Make PM default program
by "Jim Pistrang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Make PM default program
by "John Maylone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Script doesn't work anymore
by "Matthias Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
corrupted db problem, logs, archives
by "Andy Geach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: corrupted db problem, logs, archives
by "Jim Pistrang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: corrupted db problem, logs, archives
by "Tim Hodgson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Make PM default program
by "Roland Kayser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Make PM default program
by "Anthony Sanna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Powermail low level rebuild broken?
by "Bill Schjelderup" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Make PM default program
by "Matthias Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Script doesn't work anymore
by "Matthias Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re(2): Make PM default program
by "Bill Schjelderup" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Powermail low level rebuild broken?
by "Derry Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Powermail low level rebuild broken?
by "PowerMail Engineering" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Powermail low level rebuild broken?
by "PowerMail Engineering" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Make PM default program
From: "Roland Kayser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:40:05 +0100
Hi,
each time I log myself out, Apple Mail makes itself default e-mail
program. How can I restore the PowerMail popup that lets me choose
PowerMail instead?
I've been looking in the Preferences, the help and the FAQ but didn't
find anything.
TIA
Kind regards, Roland
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Subject: Re: Make PM default program
From: "Jim Pistrang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:51:54 -0500
Hi Roland,
>each time I log myself out, Apple Mail makes itself default e-mail
>program. How can I restore the PowerMail popup that lets me choose
>PowerMail instead?
>I've been looking in the Preferences, the help and the FAQ but didn't
>find anything.
>TIA
>
>Kind regards, Roland
Use MisFox! Depending on your version of PowerMail and OSX, you may
find it in Applications/PowerMail/Extras or you may see it in your
System Preferences.
If you can't find it anywhere, it is a free download from their web
page: <http://mac.clauss-net.de/misfox/>
Jim
--
Jim Pistrang
JP Computer Resources
Certified Member, Apple Consultants Network
413-256-4569
<http://www.jpcr.com>
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Subject: Re: Make PM default program
From: "John Maylone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:52:49 -0800
Roland,
Open Apple Mail preferences, the General window, and set your
preferred e-mail reader there. Kind goofy, but it works.
Cheers,
John
On Feb 20, 2008, at 12:40 PM, Roland Kayser wrote:
> Hi,
>
> each time I log myself out, Apple Mail makes itself default e-mail
> program. How can I restore the PowerMail popup that lets me choose
> PowerMail instead?
> I've been looking in the Preferences, the help and the FAQ but didn't
> find anything.
> TIA
>
> Kind regards, Roland
>
>
>
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Subject: Script doesn't work anymore
From: "Matthias Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:19:05 +0900
Hello,
since I'm on Leopard my Growl script doesn't ork anymore.
Now I looked a bit into it and the first thing I realized was, that the
script was somehow destroyed i.e. unreadable.
So I replaced it with a new one, but it stiil dodn't work.
Then I enabled debugging in Scriptdebugger4 and set a trace point on the
very first line, just to see that the script actually never gets called.
So what could be wrong with this?
Thanks and all the best
Matthias
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Subject: corrupted db problem, logs, archives
From: "Andy Geach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:06:21 +0000
Hi
Three questions for the group; my first posting, so apologies if some of
my queries have already been answered here before.
1. I recently did a search on my machine for documents using Spotlight.
In the list of results were some Powermail messages - they had the
familiar orange logo. I doubled clicked one of the results, expecting
the message to open in Powermail. There was some kind of Powermail
database error reported (sadly I did not record the code) in a modal
dialog. Powermail now seems to have lost all messages between a date in
November 2007 and now. Does anyone know of a way to get those messages
back? Is there a hidden cache/log/temp file somewhere I can use? Some
other method?
2. I occasionally send messages using Powermail that fail. You get an
alert sound, and the message has a hazard/warning like logo in the Sent
mail folder. Usually the cause is a misconfiguration problem, or
whatever, no problem. However sometimes I don't know the cause, but
would like to find out. Does Powermail write to an error log somewhere,
so I can track the problem down?
3. Are the archives for this group available on the web?
many thanks for any help
Andy
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Subject: Re: corrupted db problem, logs, archives
From: "Jim Pistrang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:18:49 -0500
Hi Andy,
>1. I recently did a search on my machine for documents using Spotlight.
>In the list of results were some Powermail messages - they had the
>familiar orange logo. I doubled clicked one of the results, expecting
>the message to open in Powermail. There was some kind of Powermail
>database error reported (sadly I did not record the code) in a modal
>dialog. Powermail now seems to have lost all messages between a date in
>November 2007 and now. Does anyone know of a way to get those messages
>back? Is there a hidden cache/log/temp file somewhere I can use? Some
>other method?
Possibly you clicked on a message in an old backup copy of the
database. This would 'trick' PowerMail into thinking that you wanted to
switch databases. To switch back to your current database, go to File/
Database/Switch User Environment and locate your current folder & files.
hth
Jim
--
Jim Pistrang
JP Computer Resources
Certified Member, Apple Consultants Network
413-256-4569
<http://www.jpcr.com>
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Subject: Re: corrupted db problem, logs, archives
From: "Tim Hodgson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:13:22 +0000
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 2:06 pm +0000, Andy Geach wrote:
>2. I occasionally send messages using Powermail that fail. You get an
>alert sound, and the message has a hazard/warning like logo in the Sent
>mail folder. Usually the cause is a misconfiguration problem, or
>whatever, no problem. However sometimes I don't know the cause, but
>would like to find out. Does Powermail write to an error log somewhere,
>so I can track the problem down?
Unfortunately not - it's a longstanding feature request ;-)
>3. Are the archives for this group available on the web?
Yes - if you look at the full headers for each message you'll see:
List-Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powermail-discuss%40ctmdev.com>
Easily missed, though.
--
TimH
PowerMail 5.6.1 (build 4499) | OS X 10.4.11 | PowerBook G4/1.25GHz |
1.25GB RAM
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Subject: Re: Make PM default program
From: "Roland Kayser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:32:14 +0100
Jim Pistrang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb (Mi, 20. Feb 2008):
>Use MisFox! Depending on your version of PowerMail and OSX, you may
>find it in Applications/PowerMail/Extras or you may see it in your
>System Preferences.
>
>If you can't find it anywhere, it is a free download from their web
>page: <http://mac.clauss-net.de/misfox/>
Thank you! That's a very useful program.
Kind regards, Roland
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Subject: Re: Make PM default program
From: "Anthony Sanna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:59:34 -0600
>Open Apple Mail preferences, the General window, and set your
>preferred e-mail reader there. Kind goofy, but it works.
Almost, for me. The only glitch is that iCal alarms go to PM AND
Mail. ...or at least it tries to send from Mail. I will often find
Mail open on my computer, patiently waiting for instructions, since I
didn't set it up with an account to send.
Tony
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Anthony R. Sanna
SACO Foods, Inc.
1-800-373-7226
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Powermail low level rebuild broken?
From: "Bill Schjelderup" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:02:49 -0700
I'm not sure if the problem started with 5.6.2 or with 10.5.2 but when I
try to do a "low level rebuild" in Powermail, the program quits during
the process.
I've performed all the other maintenance procedures, and still the low
level rebuild fails. When it's run alone, or in combination with other
routines.
I've sent the crash logs to PM support...but no reply.
The problem occurs on my home MacPro or my office MacBook (I carry my
database on an external Firewire 800 drive) - so it's not machine specific.
I run all the database maintenance routines on a regular basis - like
all of you, email is VERY important to me and the BEST way to know for
sure if a database is intact is to iterate through all the records and
rebuild all dynamic structures.
I've been experiencing a much higher frequency of crashes during drag
events, i.e. when I'm dragging a message from my in box to a folder.
This new instability combined with the failure to do a low level rebuild
has reduced my confidence in the integrity of my database. The other
routines work...so I'm not in panic mode.
Before I go through the long and boring process of starting from scratch
and rebuilding my message database or performing further tests I thought
I'd check if anyone else is experiencing this problem.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this matter?
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Bill Schjelderup -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: Make PM default program
From: "Matthias Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:22:03 +0900
Am/On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:59:34 -0600 schrieb/wrote Anthony Sanna:
>>Open Apple Mail preferences, the General window, and set your
>>preferred e-mail reader there. Kind goofy, but it works.
>
>Almost, for me. The only glitch is that iCal alarms go to PM AND
>Mail. ...or at least it tries to send from Mail. I will often find
>Mail open on my computer, patiently waiting for instructions, since I
>didn't set it up with an account to send.
there's a script out there.
<http://www.zapptek.com/ical-mail/>
that's going to do the trick.
Thanks and all the best
Matthias
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Subject: Re: Script doesn't work anymore
From: "Matthias Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:28:20 +0900
Am/On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:19:05 +0900 schrieb/wrote Matthias Schmidt:
>since I'm on Leopard my Growl script doesn't ork anymore.
>Now I looked a bit into it and the first thing I realized was, that the
>script was somehow destroyed i.e. unreadable.
>So I replaced it with a new one, but it stiil dodn't work.
>Then I enabled debugging in Scriptdebugger4 and set a trace point on the
>very first line, just to see that the script actually never gets called.
>
>So what could be wrong with this?
funny to answer my own questions ;-)
the script was damaged.
After installing a new one, it works now again.
Thanks and all the best
Matthias
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Subject: Re(2): Make PM default program
From: "Bill Schjelderup" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:43:04 -0700
Matthias,
Thanks - I'd given up on that and configured mail just for those events,
now I don't have to mess with it.
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Bill Schjelderup -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>Am/On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:59:34 -0600 schrieb/wrote Anthony Sanna:
>
>>>Open Apple Mail preferences, the General window, and set your
>>>preferred e-mail reader there. Kind goofy, but it works.
>>
>>Almost, for me. The only glitch is that iCal alarms go to PM AND
>>Mail. ...or at least it tries to send from Mail. I will often find
>>Mail open on my computer, patiently waiting for instructions, since I
>>didn't set it up with an account to send.
>
>there's a script out there.
><http://www.zapptek.com/ical-mail/>
>that's going to do the trick.
>
>Thanks and all the best
>
>Matthias
>
>
>
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Subject: Re: Powermail low level rebuild broken?
From: "Derry Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:02:37 +0000
Bill Schjelderup at [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on Thu, 21 Feb 2008
09:02:49 -0700
>
>I've been experiencing a much higher frequency of crashes during drag
>events, i.e. when I'm dragging a message from my in box to a folder.
>This new instability combined with the failure to do a low level rebuild
>has reduced my confidence in the integrity of my database. The other
>routines work...so I'm not in panic mode.
>
>Before I go through the long and boring process of starting from scratch
>and rebuilding my message database or performing further tests I thought
>I'd check if anyone else is experiencing this problem.
>
>Does anyone have any thoughts on this matter?
Yes I did a few days ago. My Macbook went into very deep sleep while I
was out a clients. Had to reboot.
PowerMail then came up with a message "Database is in an unexpected
format" but seem to load it ok. Powermail then went into a loop with an
"Unexpected End of File" message which I had to force quit out of.
Tried a low level rebuild three of four times, each time the program
unexpectedly quit.
I went to a backup database.
--
Derry
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Subject: Re: Powermail low level rebuild broken?
From: "PowerMail Engineering" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:15:20 +0100
Bill Schjelderup wrote:
>I've performed all the other maintenance procedures, and still the low
>level rebuild fails. When it's run alone, or in combination with other
>routines.
I recommend exporting all your messages to the PowerMail Exchange
format, then importing to a new, clean, message database:
- export "your entire mail database" to the PowerMail Exchange format,
without attachments
- quit PowerMail
- after having backed up your whole PowerMail database folder, delete
the "Message Database", "Message Database index" and "Message Database
Spotlight cache" files
- launch PowerMail while pressing the command and option keys, and check
"temporarily disable scheduled connections" (especially if you have mail
filters that move received messages to a folder)
- import the messages from the exported file
- all your mail filters that move messages to a folder will have lost
the reference of the destination folder, so verify and fix all your mail
filters manually
- quit and relaunch PowerMail (to re-activate scheduled connections)
If exporting "your entire mail database" fails, you can select a few
folders and export "the selected mail folders". If this fails on a
folder, you can select a range of messages in the folder and export "the
selected messages".
>I run all the database maintenance routines on a regular basis - like
>all of you, email is VERY important to me and the BEST way to know for
>sure if a database is intact is to iterate through all the records and
>rebuild all dynamic structures.
Low level database rebuild is really something that should only be
performed when your database is damaged. If you want to make sure it is
intact, rebuilding the search index should be enough, as it will proceed
every message in the database; or even better, export to the PowerMail
Exchange format, you will get an extra backup in a non-database format.
Jérôme - CTM Engineering
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Subject: Re: Powermail low level rebuild broken?
From: "PowerMail Engineering" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:31:33 +0100
I wrote:
>I recommend exporting all your messages to the PowerMail Exchange
Hum, no. Low level rebuild seems broken in 5.6.2, so don't do anything
if your database behaves correctly...
We will fix this as soon as possible.
Jérôme - CTM Engineering
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