Size of Font in HTML

[Daniel Ross, SJ]

I have not enabled the HTML reader, but about once or twice a day receive
email that I have to open in HTML. Under the latest version of PM (5.1)
the font size is very very large. Do others have this problem? And how
can I have the HTML mail open in an ordinary size font?

Thank you

Dan

Re: More 16 hour Sort Index rebuilding...

[islander]

Hello Hiro,

Thanks for the advice.  I will first try Jerome's suggestion (which is
similar to what you first tried) and then resort to going back to PM4 if I
have to.  I hope I don't have to because that sounds like a lot of pain
:-/  But at least it sounds like this fixed your probelm and therefore I
am thankful for additional options.

Steve

> I seriously think you have some corrupted mails that is doing this.  Come
> to think of this, I had a similar problem.  In my case, there were a few
> corrupted mails that pushes PM heap to 2GB at rebuilding sort indices.
>
> I first spent a week to find offending messages, by exporting one folder
> at a time till export crashes then go over message by message within the
> folder.  I then found a couple Japanese messages were unable to display.
>  I deleted them all.
>
> The problem didn't stop there.  Another two weeks of trials and errors, I
> eventually had to export all to PM4, rebuilt everything in PM4 then
> brought them into PM5.  It was a painful process but it had to be done.
>
>
> --
>
> - Hiro
>
> [PROTECTED]
> <[PROTECTED]> <[PROTECTED]>
>
>
>
>

Re: More 16 hour Sort Index rebuilding...

[islander]

Hello Matthias,

> don't use beta software and complain ;-)

Bad logic.  The beta should not have this problem either.  Also, if there
is a problem in a beta, and that problem was not noticed by the developer,
it would be in the final release as well.  Might not be, but pointing the
finger at the beta is not the right thing to do.

> why don't you compact your database ?

That's what caused the problem :-/  I asked PM to rebuild my data base and
it incorrectly rebuilt my Sort Index as well.  Jerome already confirmed
that this should not have happened.

Steve

Re(2): PM quits unexpected - IMAP (was: that and a lot more in the subject line)

[Richard Chèvre]

A 15:18, alors qu'il était -0500 chez lui (ou chez elle),
C. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) écrivit ceci:

>Shouldn't some characters get automatically stripped out of the subject
>line so this doesn't happen? Is there ever a two-or-more-line subject line?

I'm pretty sure that the subject line must be ONE line (other than that
it's considered as spam - so we rejct all mails having more than one line)
Read more informaitons in RFC 2822 

Specially chapters 2.2.1 - 2.2.3 and 3.6.5

I had a problem with some old ".sit" archives when I wanted to export
PowerMail folders to my archives. They block before one message
containing attachmets . After removing the attachment all was fine

Richard
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Re: More 16 hour Sort Index rebuilding...

[Bob Moody]

1. Switch to 10.3.6 or whatever Panther will run on your machine. 
Panther is faster than Jaguar and more stable, AND it automatically
defrags any file smaller than 20megs. This will speed up anything you do
in PowerMail because the database isn't spread all over the place.  Of
course to make this work you have to leave your system on over night. 
2. Repair Permissions.  Reprebind the system. Repair OSX symbolic links.
 You can do this from the terminal or use a GUI.  I personally like
Panther Cache Cleaner best, but also use Cocktail on occasion.  If I run
Cocktail, it generally makes files forget their owners, so I run PCC to
repair the symbolic links which makes them remember again.
3. Zap your PRAM. 
4. If rebuild is taking a long time, force quit PowerMail and go again. 
This usually speeds things up a whole lot.  If the barberpole isn't
spinning it's a good chance things are jammed up.  I get this even on a
twin 2 G5 and quitting and going again usually makes PM sort things out
quicker.  
5. Get rid of some of your messages.  If your database is too large, it
takes forever.  Do this in bits and pieces.
6. Don't download all the junk.  Use webmail to look into your mailbox
and see what's in there. (There are also some shareware things that do
this... was one on October MacWorld CD...which is why I buy mine off the
newsstand instead of having a subscription) Delete any messages that you
don't want directly from your mailbox and only download into PM the ones
you want to keep.  This is the best spam filter you can have and it's
free.  It also keeps you from deleting so many messages from PM and
having to compact your database.  I get about 200 messages a day, and at
most download maybe 20-30. 

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Replying to message quoted below
=


*REPLYING TO MESSAGE QUOTED BELOW**
Fri, 26 Nov 2004 08:46:26 -0500

>Jerome,
>
>I recently received a number of 13MB emails which had the attachments in
>the Body of the email instead of attachments.  After deleting them I
>thought it would be wise to Compact my data base.  I used the menu option
>for this before going to bed and woke up to find PowerMail rebuilding my
>Sort Index.  As with before this will take about 16 hours.  Here are some
>more facts:
>
>1.  I'm still using the 5.1 beta (don't ask...) with 10.2.8
>
>2.  I have not crashed since we last emailed
>
>3.  Yesterday I had a problem with message subject lines overwriting each
>other as if the messages were jumbled together on top of one another. 
>Ironically it only affected the messages in my PowerMaill Discussion
>folder :-) This did not appear to cause any functional problems, but to be
>on the safe side I deleted them all, quit (empties the trash), and
>restarted.  No problems noted after this.
>
>4.  I've quit and restarted PowerMail at least once after this without a
>problem.
>
>What do you think the problem is?  I am now obviously very disapointed
>with this result and now wonder if this will happen to me everytime I try
>to Compact.  Any ideas?
>
>Also, could you *PLEASE* do something about the slowness of the rebuilds? 
>It really is a serious issue, even if it happens to a customer only once
>(this is now my 4th time in as many weeks).
>
>Thanks!
>
>Steve
>
>
>
>

Re: PM quits unexpected - IMAP (was: that and a lot more in the subject line)

[C. A. Niemiec]

>>Latest try with renewed OS X - Powermail still quits. Seems to be a bug!
>
>I don't think so.
>Watch the subject lines of your mails.
>
>THIS ONE (i didn't repair it) has several lines, separeted by a return.
>See header:
>
>---
>Subject:
> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Re(3):=20PM=20quits=20unexpected=20-=20IMAP=0D=0DAm=20?=
> ...

Shouldn't some characters get automatically stripped out of the subject
line so this doesn't happen? Is there ever a two-or-more-line subject line?

Chris
-- 

Re: More 16 hour Sort Index rebuilding...

[A-NO-NE Music]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] / 04.11.26 / 8:46AM wrote:

>What do you think the problem is?  I am now obviously very disapointed
>with this result and now wonder if this will happen to me everytime I try
>to Compact.  Any ideas?
>
>Also, could you *PLEASE* do something about the slowness of the rebuilds? 
>It really is a serious issue, even if it happens to a customer only once
>(this is now my 4th time in as many weeks).


I seriously think you have some corrupted mails that is doing this.  Come
to think of this, I had a similar problem.  In my case, there were a few
corrupted mails that pushes PM heap to 2GB at rebuilding sort indices.

I first spent a week to find offending messages, by exporting one folder
at a time till export crashes then go over message by message within the
folder.  I then found a couple Japanese messages were unable to display.
 I deleted them all.

The problem didn't stop there.  Another two weeks of trials and errors, I
eventually had to export all to PM4, rebuilt everything in PM4 then
brought them into PM5.  It was a painful process but it had to be done.


-- 

- Hiro

[PROTECTED]
<[PROTECTED]> <[PROTECTED]>

Re: More 16 hour Sort Index rebuilding...

[Matthias Schmidt]

Hi Steve,

don't use beta software and complain ;-)

some joker sent yesterday mails to the list with several lines in the subject.
this caused the problem you mentioned in 3.

why don't you compact your database ?
that will speed up things imho.

All the best

Matthias

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Am/On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 08:46:26 -0500 schrieb/wrote [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

>Jerome,
>
>I recently received a number of 13MB emails which had the attachments in
>the Body of the email instead of attachments.  After deleting them I
>thought it would be wise to Compact my data base.  I used the menu option
>for this before going to bed and woke up to find PowerMail rebuilding my
>Sort Index.  As with before this will take about 16 hours.  Here are some
>more facts:
>
>1.  I'm still using the 5.1 beta (don't ask...) with 10.2.8
>
>2.  I have not crashed since we last emailed
>
>3.  Yesterday I had a problem with message subject lines overwriting each
>other as if the messages were jumbled together on top of one another. 
>Ironically it only affected the messages in my PowerMaill Discussion
>folder :-) This did not appear to cause any functional problems, but to be
>on the safe side I deleted them all, quit (empties the trash), and
>restarted.  No problems noted after this.
>
>4.  I've quit and restarted PowerMail at least once after this without a
>problem.
>
>What do you think the problem is?  I am now obviously very disapointed
>with this result and now wonder if this will happen to me everytime I try
>to Compact.  Any ideas?
>
>Also, could you *PLEASE* do something about the slowness of the rebuilds? 
>It really is a serious issue, even if it happens to a customer only once
>(this is now my 4th time in as many weeks).
>
>Thanks!
>
>Steve
>
>
>
>

More 16 hour Sort Index rebuilding...

[islander]

Jerome,

I recently received a number of 13MB emails which had the attachments in
the Body of the email instead of attachments.  After deleting them I
thought it would be wise to Compact my data base.  I used the menu option
for this before going to bed and woke up to find PowerMail rebuilding my
Sort Index.  As with before this will take about 16 hours.  Here are some
more facts:

1.  I'm still using the 5.1 beta (don't ask...) with 10.2.8

2.  I have not crashed since we last emailed

3.  Yesterday I had a problem with message subject lines overwriting each
other as if the messages were jumbled together on top of one another. 
Ironically it only affected the messages in my PowerMaill Discussion
folder :-) This did not appear to cause any functional problems, but to be
on the safe side I deleted them all, quit (empties the trash), and
restarted.  No problems noted after this.

4.  I've quit and restarted PowerMail at least once after this without a
problem.

What do you think the problem is?  I am now obviously very disapointed
with this result and now wonder if this will happen to me everytime I try
to Compact.  Any ideas?

Also, could you *PLEASE* do something about the slowness of the rebuilds? 
It really is a serious issue, even if it happens to a customer only once
(this is now my 4th time in as many weeks).

Thanks!

Steve

Re: Browser Preferences & PowerMail

[computer artwork by subhash]

[Jon Buscall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 26.11.2004 um 12:31 Uhr:]

>Although Safari is my default browser across my system, whenever I get an
>email that requires HTML the message always opens up in IE

Try to say in the Finder information for any HTML-file to open in Safari
*and also all the other HTML files*. (Don't know the right term for using
a German system.)

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Re: Browser Preferences & PowerMail

[Matthias Schmidt]

there's a pref pane called More Internet:


All the best

Matthias

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Am/On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 07:35:26 -0500 schrieb/wrote Tim Lapin:

>On   Friday, November 26, 2004,   Chris Walker   sent forth:
>
>>On 26/11/04 Jon Buscall wrote: 
>>
>>>I've gone through my system preferences and tried to set Safari as
>>>default but to no avail. 
>>
>>Look in:  Safari Preferences -> General -> Default Web Browser 
>>
>>cheers,
>>
>>Chris
>>
>>
>That depends on which OS he is running.  With 10.2 (Jaguar) and below,
>the browser prefs were set in the "Internet" System Preference panel. 
>That is one feature I wish Apple would bring back, as it properly
>centralized all internet settings at the system level.
>
>--
>Tim Lapin
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>G4/AGP/400OS 10.3.5PowerMail 5.1 384 MB RAM 40+10 GB HDs
>
>

Re: Browser Preferences & PowerMail

[Jon Buscall]

I've done this and set Safari as default but IE still shows up and works
with PowerMail. I've also tried this by restarting after setting the
preferences. 

Jon



>On 26/11/04 Jon Buscall wrote: 
>
>>I've gone through my system preferences and tried to set Safari as
>>default but to no avail. 
>
>Look in:  Safari Preferences -> General -> Default Web Browser 
>
>cheers,
>
>Chris
>
>
>
>

Re: Browser Preferences & PowerMail

[Tim Lapin]

On   Friday, November 26, 2004,   Chris Walker   sent forth:

>On 26/11/04 Jon Buscall wrote: 
>
>>I've gone through my system preferences and tried to set Safari as
>>default but to no avail. 
>
>Look in:  Safari Preferences -> General -> Default Web Browser 
>
>cheers,
>
>Chris
>
>
That depends on which OS he is running.  With 10.2 (Jaguar) and below,
the browser prefs were set in the "Internet" System Preference panel. 
That is one feature I wish Apple would bring back, as it properly
centralized all internet settings at the system level.

--
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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Re: Browser Preferences & PowerMail

[Chris Walker]

On 26/11/04 Jon Buscall wrote: 

>I've gone through my system preferences and tried to set Safari as
>default but to no avail. 

Look in:  Safari Preferences -> General -> Default Web Browser 

cheers,

Chris

Re: Browser Preferences & PowerMail

[David Gordon]

Jon Buscall wrote on Fri 26 Nov 2004 at 12:31 +0100

>How can I combine PowerMail with Safari?

I have Firefox set as my default browser and it works as expected with
PM. The bizarre thing is that you set Firefox as your default browser in
- wait for it - your Safari prefs.


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Browser Preferences & PowerMail

[Jon Buscall]

I'm having trouble with getting Safari or FireFox to work as my html
reader alongside PowerMail.
Although Safari is my default browser across my system, whenever I get an
email that requires HTML the message always opens up in IE. 
I've gone through my system preferences and tried to set Safari as
default but to no avail. Even when I uninstalled IE, it just showed the
Classic IE icon and tried to launch that.

How can I combine PowerMail with Safari?

Thanks,
Jon 

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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
mobile: 00 46 736 22 41 85

Re: printing

[Rene Merz]

Am 26.11.2004 hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] geschrieben:

Bring away the file "Setup Database" from directory "Power Mail Files".
>>
>>Don't worry! You will not loose important things, specially *not*
>>accounts, directories, filters, mails.
>>
>>Mabye you loose some preferences like display-font for the mails and
>>other not important things. Check the preferences (menu PowerMail).
>
>The "Setup Database" file contains all the important settings: accounts,
>filters etc. If you want to reset some settings from the preferences,
>default windows positions or columns size and order, use "Reset window-
>related preferences" or "Reset miscellaneous preferences" from the PM
>First Aid dialog (by launching PM with the command and option keys pressed).
>The print settings are part of the things that are reset with "Reset
>miscellaneous preferences".

Strange, I checked-it out before: putting away "Setup Database".
PM just made a new one. *Nothing* important at all have changed!
Contradictory ...
Can-you expain this?

Re: printing

[PowerMail Engineering]

Rene Merz wrote:

>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>>>Bring away the file "Setup Database" from directory "Power Mail Files".
>
>Don't worry! You will not loose important things, specially *not*
>accounts, directories, filters, mails.
>
>Mabye you loose some preferences like display-font for the mails and
>other not important things. Check the preferences (menu PowerMail).

The "Setup Database" file contains all the important settings: accounts,
filters etc. If you want to reset some settings from the preferences,
default windows positions or columns size and order, use "Reset window-
related preferences" or "Reset miscellaneous preferences" from the PM
First Aid dialog (by launching PM with the command and option keys pressed).
The print settings are part of the things that are reset with "Reset
miscellaneous preferences".


Jérôme - PowerMail Engineering


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Re: printing

[Rene Merz]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>>Bring away the file "Setup Database" from directory "Power Mail Files".
>>(Do not delet-it yet.)
>>Restart PM.
>>
>that did the trick, but then all my 'setup' stuff is gone of course. any
>way to re-import it? i didn't delete it because i use it now ;)

Don't worry! You will not loose important things, specially *not*
accounts, directories, filters, mails.

Mabye you loose some preferences like display-font for the mails and
other not important things. Check the preferences (menu PowerMail).