powermail-discuss Digest #3142 - Wednesday, August 5, 2015
Re: "PowerMail wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this."
by "John Maylone" <mrko...@netptc.net>
Re: "PowerMail wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this."
by "John Maylone" <mrko...@netptc.net>
Fwd: Re(2): Underlining does not work
by "Winston Weinmann" <weinm...@mindspring.com>
Re(2): Underlining does not work
by "Winston Weinmann" <weinm...@mindspring.com>
Re: "PowerMail wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this."
by "PowerMail Engineering" <jer...@ctmdev.com>
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Subject: Re: "PowerMail wants to make changes. Type your password to allow
this."
From: "John Maylone" <mrko...@netptc.net>
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 12:41:04 -0700
This is clearly not the issue. It asks for her admin password every time she
opens PowerMail. The computer is hers alone, no user account switching is
involved.
Thanks for the response.
John
> On Aug 4, 2015, at 2:27 AM, PowerMail Engineering <jer...@ctmdev.com> wrote:
>
> John Maylone wrote:
>
>> My wife is a PowerMail user. Every time she opens her PowerMail, she
>> gets this message: "PowerMail wants to make changes. Type your
>> password to allow this.â
>>
>> Does anyone know what it is and how to make it stop?
>
> I think this happens when backuping the registration file (PMKey). It is
> stored both in the preferences folder, and inside the PowerMail.app package,
> and if you are using multiple OS X user accounts, you may have to provide an
> administrator password for this. However, this should only happen once (if
> you enter the admin password).
>
>
> Jérôme - CTM Engineering
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Subject: Re: "PowerMail wants to make changes. Type your password to allow
this."
From: "John Maylone" <mrko...@netptc.net>
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 12:55:38 -0700
Thanks for the suggestion, Winston, but no luck with this solution, either.
Your time is very much appreciated.
Cheers,
John
> On Aug 3, 2015, at 8:08 PM, Winston Weinmann <weinm...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> This is a guess, but I wonder if PowerMail is trying to store login
> information for your wife's email account(s) in the Apple Keychain's "login"
> keychain, and there is some corruption in the relevant Keychain entry.
>
> First quit PowerMail.
>
> Then open the Keychain application (probably in the Utilities folder in the
> Applications folder, on my old Mac it's called "Keychain Access"), then
> delete any login entries that relate to your wife's email account
> (pop.gmail.com and smtp.gmail.com, for example, if she has a gmail account).
> The "login" keychain should be at the top of the list of keychains in
> Keychain.
>
> Then restart PowerMail. You may have to re-enter login info via the
> Setup>Mail Accounts... menu.
>
> If you want to be really thorough, delete her email account via Setup>Mail
> Accounts... in PowerMail before removing the Keychain "login" entries, then
> re-set up the account(s) in PowerMail after you've deleted the Keychain
> entries.
>
>
> Note that deleting an email account in PowerMail via Setup>Mail Accounts...
> will not delete any mail already saved. It will only delete the login info
> for that email account.
>
>
> Good luck.
>
> - Winston Weinmann
>
>
>
>
>
> John Maylone wrote:
>
>>
>> My wife is a PowerMail user. Every time she opens her PowerMail, she
>> gets this message: "PowerMail wants to make changes. Type your
>> password to allow this."
>>
>> Does anyone know what it is and how to make it stop?
>>
>> Thanks for any advice,
>>
>> John Maylone
>
>
>
>
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Subject: Fwd: Re(2): Underlining does not work
From: "Winston Weinmann" <weinm...@mindspring.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 21:28:12 -0400
Using Palatino Regular (I think). I use Palatino often with Word, and it does
not have any problems. I have Palatino set in Preferences>Display>Rich Text. I
normally don't change the font from the Format menu, other than to make the
font larger. It's set for 12 in Preferences, but normally comes out looking
like 9 point, so I hit "Bigger" a couple of times from the format menu.
I do wish there were a way to see what font and size was set from the Format
menu. If I make any changes from the default it's impossible to know which font
or size is selected, other than by trial and error. Ditto with the Format>Fonts
menu showing the actual font in each font name.
- Winston Weinmann
PowerMail Engineering wrote:
>Winston Weinmann wrote:
>
>>Why doesn't underlining work with Rich Text (HTML) formatting? Any
>>underlining goes away when a message is sent or saved. Not so for bold
>>or italics.
>
>I can't reproduce the problem; which font are you using (either in the
>display preference for rich text, or in the format menu)?
>
>
>Jérôme - CTM Engineering
>
>
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Subject: Re(2): Underlining does not work
From: "Winston Weinmann" <weinm...@mindspring.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 21:33:20 -0400
Tried underlining with Helvetica too. Same issue. Helvetica is about as
bog-standard as you can get.
- Winston Weinmann
PowerMail Engineering wrote:
>Winston Weinmann wrote:
>
>>Why doesn't underlining work with Rich Text (HTML) formatting? Any
>>underlining goes away when a message is sent or saved. Not so for bold
>>or italics.
>
>I can't reproduce the problem; which font are you using (either in the
>display preference for rich text, or in the format menu)?
>
>
>Jérôme - CTM Engineering
>
>
>---------------------------------------------------------------------
> "FoxTrot is way better and faster than Spotlight and seriously more
> usable. With around 200000 docs on my 60Gig drive, using Spotlight
> is just hopeless.
> Searches with FoxTrot are just instantaneous and you can view them in
> all sorts of ways. The preview is just wonderful."
> FoxTrot Personal Search user comment on www.versiontracker.com
>
>
> Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch
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>
>
>
>
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Subject: Re: "PowerMail wants to make changes. Type your password to allow
this."
From: "PowerMail Engineering" <jer...@ctmdev.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 09:05:06 +0200
John Maylone wrote:
>This is clearly not the issue. It asks for her admin password every
>time she opens PowerMail. The computer is hers alone, no user account
>switching is involved.
Does she accept to type the password, or not? If not, she will be prompted
every time. If yes, then she should not be prompted again.
She might also try to repair disk permissions using Disk Utility.
Jérôme - CTM Engineering
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