Re: total DB breakdown and asian font rendering - Update

[PowerMail Engineering]

Mikael Byström wrote:

>I do think that under the circumstances it's still unacceptable for an
>app to crash because a usually non-critical font is missing. It would be
>better to display a dialog that the message couldn't be shown.

The problem is that there is so many system components that can be
uninstalled or corrupted in some way that it is completely impossible to
check for them.
As a general rule, avoid removing manually anything from the /System/
Library folder. "Non-critical" fonts are in /Library, or in the Library
of your home folder.


Jérôme - PowerMail Engineering


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PowerMail Upgrade

[K Lewis]

Afer my previous difficulty with 5.5b2 upgrade I
purchased the latest OS X (Tiger) and installed it,
after which I went to the ctmdev website to download
5.5b2 only to find that it's no longer available.  The
download brings only 5.5fc1, which I downloaded and
installed.  The problem arises with the database
conversion process, which returns an error message "A
file error occurred Class=file; when=8; err=-50"

What can I do to correct this problem?

Many thanks.

Kathleen

Re: PowerMail Upgrade

[PowerMail Engineering]

K Lewis wrote:

>The problem arises with the database
>conversion process, which returns an error message "A
>file error occurred Class=file; when=8; err=-50"

- Is PowerMail 5.2.3 still able to open your message database?
- Can you describe more precisely when the error occurred? Immediately
after beginning the database conversion, during the conversion, during
the compaction that occurs automatically at the end of the conversion?
- Have you checked your disk using Disk Utility, or another third party
disk verification tool?


Jérôme - PowerMail Engineering


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Re: total DB breakdown and asian font rendering - Update

[PowerMail Engineering]

Hello Mikael,

I did not receive any news from you since I sent you the localization
kit for PowerMail 5.5. As there was very few changes, I have just put
the new strings in english in the previous swedish localization.
Do you still wish, and have time for maintaining the swedish
localization for the future releases?

Kind regards


Jérôme - PowerMail Engineering


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and its interface makes an ex-Emailer user feel at home. But what
really impressed me is the incredible speed of text searches: PowerMail
can comb through my 23,000+ messages in literally a *fraction* of a
second, on a lowly iBook.  No other mail client I've tried even
remotely comes close. Kudos for FoxTrot!"
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Strange bug.

[Derry Thompson]

With the RC of 5.5. If I copy something from Powemail, when switch to
Tex-Edit ,  I eventually get an error of
"Nothing can be pasted from the clipboard" after a few seconds of
complete slowdown. This didn't happen with 5.2. I can paste into other
apps from PowerMail just fine, and can paste from other apps into Tex-
edit just fine. 


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Re: Strange bug.

[Jim Pistrang]

Hi Derry,

>With the RC of 5.5. If I copy something from Powemail, when switch to
>Tex-Edit ,  I eventually get an error of
>"Nothing can be pasted from the clipboard" after a few seconds of
>complete slowdown. This didn't happen with 5.2. I can paste into other
>apps from PowerMail just fine, and can paste from other apps into Tex-
>edit just fine. 

I just copied/pasted the text of your email with no problem.  Tried it
with Text-Edit and with TextWrangler.

Jim

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Re: Strange bug.

[Derry Thompson]

Jim Pistrang at [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:43:46 -0400

>I just copied/pasted the text of your email with no problem.  Tried it
>with Text-Edit and with TextWrangler.
>
>Jim

Right, but did you try Tex-Edit :)

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Copying address bug still there

[Alan Harper]

This bug in Powermail has existed since "before the beginning" (ie,
since I can remember).

Open PowerMail's address book, open a contact in the address book, click
on an email address for that contact and Copy. A message pops up: "An
error occurred: Error -4989". Luckily, the email address does go onto
the clipboard.

PM v 5.5fc1 build 4453

A

Re: Copying address bug still there

[Charles Watts-Jones]

On 10 October Alan Harper wrote:

> Open PowerMail's address book, open a contact in the address
> book, click on an email address for that contact and Copy. A
> message pops up: "An error occurred: Error -4989".

Can't reproduce it on my machine.  That sequence of keystrokes works
perfectly.

-- Charles 

PM 5.5fc1 - Intel iMac - OS 10.4.7

Re(2): Copying address bug still there

[Alan Harper]

O, must be something I have added. I'll work on it sometime--and I
withdraw my bug.

Thx

Charles Watts-Jones said at Tue, Oct 10, 2006 8:54 AM -0700:

>On 10 October Alan Harper wrote:
>
>> Open PowerMail's address book, open a contact in the address
>> book, click on an email address for that contact and Copy. A
>> message pops up: "An error occurred: Error -4989".
>
>Can't reproduce it on my machine.  That sequence of keystrokes works
>perfectly.
>
>-- Charles 
>
>PM 5.5fc1 - Intel iMac - OS 10.4.7
>
>
>
>
>

Re: Copying address bug still there

[Justin Beek]

If I open the individual address from the address book. I get the  
copy error also.


BTW: Copy via the main Address Book window copies only the name - not  
the email address.


Justin Beek

PowerMail version: PowerMail version 5.2.3 build 4406 English
Mac OS version: 10.4.8


On Oct 10, 2006, at 10:54 AM, Charles Watts-Jones wrote:


On 10 October Alan Harper wrote:


Open PowerMail's address book, open a contact in the address
book, click on an email address for that contact and Copy. A
message pops up: "An error occurred: Error -4989".


Can't reproduce it on my machine.  That sequence of keystrokes works
perfectly.

-- Charles 


PM 5.5fc1 - Intel iMac - OS 10.4.7

Re: Copying address bug still there

[Don V. Zahniser]

On or about 10/10/06, Alan Harper wrote:

>O, must be something I have added. I'll work on it sometime--and I
>withdraw my bug.

...or perhaps not.  I get the same error on my system.

PowerMac G4 Cube; 450MHz; 1.25GB RAM; Mac OS 10.3.9
PowerMail 5.5fc1 build 4453

Note that the Preferences under Synchronization have to be set so that
the addresses open in the PowerMail address book by default, not Apple's.


-- 
Don V. Zahniser

Re(2): Copying address bug still there

[Alan Harper]

Actually, I have the default to open in AddressBook, but right-click to
open the address in PowerMail's Address Book.

Don V. Zahniser said at Tue, Oct 10, 2006 10:10 AM -0700:

>Note that the Preferences under Synchronization have to be set so that
>the addresses open in the PowerMail address book by default, not Apple's.

Re: Copying address bug still there

[Richard Hart]

I get the same behavior.

Richard Hart


Alan Harper wrote:

>Open PowerMail's address book, open a contact in the address book, click
>on an email address for that contact and Copy. A message pops up: "An
>error occurred: Error -4989". Luckily, the email address does go onto
>the clipboard.

Re: Strange bug.

[T.L. Miller]

On 10/10/06, at 2:33 PM, Derry Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:

>With the RC of 5.5. If I copy something from Powemail, when switch to
>Tex-Edit ,  I eventually get an error of
>"Nothing can be pasted from the clipboard" after a few seconds of
>complete slowdown. This didn't happen with 5.2. I can paste into other
>apps from PowerMail just fine, and can paste from other apps into Tex-
>edit just fine. 

I just copy & pasted this from Tex-Edit Plus 4.9.7. I had copy & pasted
your message (PM 5.5) into T-E P first w/o incident.


Tom Miller
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Re: Copying address bug still there

[T.L. Miller]

On 10/10/06, at 8:20 AM, Alan Harper [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:

>Open PowerMail's address book, open a contact in the address book, click
>on an email address for that contact and Copy. A message pops up: "An
>error occurred: Error -4989". Luckily, the email address does go onto
>the clipboard.

Over the years I have done this many, many times and I don't ever recall
getting an error. I do use CopyPaste -- one of my 2 or 3 favorite
enhancements.

I quit CopyPaste and it still works w/o an error.


Tom Miller
..
"The only time we see the middle of the road is as  
we run from side to side." R.O.Clark 
...

Re: Strange bug.

[Derry Thompson]

T.L. Miller at [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:57:02 -0400

>I just copy & pasted this from Tex-Edit Plus 4.9.7. I had copy & pasted
>your message (PM 5.5) into T-E P first w/o incident.


Still doesn't work here. It's rock solid, 100% consistent failure on
three Macs. 

You on Intel? 


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Re: Strange bug.

[T.L. Miller]

On 10/10/06, at 8:40 PM, Derry Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:

>T.L. Miller at [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:57:02 -0400
>
>>I just copy & pasted this from Tex-Edit Plus 4.9.7. I had copy & pasted
>>your message (PM 5.5) into T-E P first w/o incident.
>
>
>Still doesn't work here. It's rock solid, 100% consistent failure on
>three Macs. 
>
>You on Intel? 


yes

Re: Strange bug.

[T.L. Miller]

>Still doesn't work here. It's rock solid, 100% consistent failure on
>three Macs. 
>
>You on Intel? 


yes

The above was copy & pasted from an older version of PM to an old
version of T-E P and then back to this new message on a G4 PB and it
still works. Maybe I am misunderstanding the problem.

Re: Strange bug.

[Derry Thompson]

T.L. Miller at [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:07:32 -0400

>The above was copy & pasted from an older version of PM to an old
>version of T-E P and then back to this new message on a G4 PB and it
>still works. Maybe I am misunderstanding the problem.

The problem is copying from PowerMail 5.5fc1 and pasting into Tex-Edit 4.9.7. 

The Mac slows right down, and after 15-20 secs an error message appears
saying "Nothing can be pasted from the clipboard".

This is on a MacBook Pro running 10.4.8, and 2 Intel iMacs running 10.4.8.

There's no problem with older versions of Powermail. 

Pasting into Tex-Edit 4.8.1 from Powermail 5.5 also errors. 



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Re:PowerMail 5.5 final candidate

[cplummer]

> powermail-discuss Digest #2485 - Tuesday, October 10, 2006
>
>   [ANN] PowerMail 5.5 final candidate
>   by "CTM info" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


Downloaded 5.5fc, installed, launched, appears fine. Won't get to actually
send/receive mail with it until I'm out of the office today.

"About Powermail" displays "256 Users License for Christopher Plummer" in
upper left corner.

- Chris

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Re: PowerMail 5.5 final candidate

[Derry Thompson]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on Tue, 10 Oct 2006
17:51:29 -0400

>> powermail-discuss Digest #2485 - Tuesday, October 10, 2006
>>
>>   [ANN] PowerMail 5.5 final candidate
>>   by "CTM info" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
>Downloaded 5.5fc, installed, launched, appears fine. Won't get to actually
>send/receive mail with it until I'm out of the office today.
>
>"About Powermail" displays "256 Users License for Christopher Plummer" in
>upper left corner.

oh yeah, 

I've got a 256 user license too :)


Derry Thompson
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Re(2): PowerMail 5.5 final candidate

[Koen Beerens]

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:51:29 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>"About Powermail" displays "256 Users License for Christopher Plummer" in
>upper left corner.

I reported a very critical About box bug years ago. It's still there,
release after release. I can open multiple about boxes. Open one, and
then choose About PowerMail again. Move the window and you'll see there
are two about windows now :)
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Re: PowerMail 5.5 final candidate

[Bruce Barrett]

Hi All,


As Derry Thompson wrote...

>I've got a 256 user license too :)

I know you're not supposed to clog lists with "me too's", but
"Me too!" (256 user license).

Also the FC has been working well for me for a couple days. No
changes noted from the beta (I haven't hunted hard either.)

Oh and the whole "paste into Tex-Edit" deal - took me forever to notice
people were not saying *TEXT*Edit. Text Edit works fine here and I 
don't have Tex-Edit.

Mac OS 10.4.7; MacBook Pro 15", 2GB.

Bruce

Re: PowerMail 5.5 final candidate

[Don V. Zahniser]

On or about 10/10/06, cplummer wrote:

>"About Powermail" displays "256 Users License for Christopher Plummer" in
>upper left corner.

Mine displays "1 users license for Don Zahniser".


BTW - the animated 'about' dialog is cute and all that, but it causes CPU
use on my system to be maxed out as long as it is open.

PowerMac G4 Cube; 450MHz; 1.25GB RAM; Mac OS 10.3.9

-- 
Don V. Zahniser

Re: PowerMail 5.5 final candidate

[Mark Smith]

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:58:12 -0400, Don V. Zahniser wrote:
>> "About Powermail" displays "256 Users License for Christopher Plummer" in
>> upper left corner.
> 
> Mine displays "1 users license for Don Zahniser".

Same here, except the name is different of course. :-)
Could this be anything to do with not having used any of the earlier 
beta versions of 5.5?

Everything else seems to work as expected so far. However, I would like 
to add my vote for keeping an option to use Stuffit for compression. In 
5.5 Zip appears to be the only option, and some users may be sending 
e-mail to recipients using old systems.

OS X 10.4.8 PPC
-- 
Mark Smith, Higashi Osaka, Japan
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Re: PowerMail Upgrade

[K Lewis]

--- PowerMail Engineering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> - Is PowerMail 5.2.3 still able to open your message
> database?
> - Can you describe more precisely when the error
> occurred? Immediately
> after beginning the database conversion, during the
> conversion, during
> the compaction that occurs automatically at the end
> of the conversion?
> - Have you checked your disk using Disk Utility, or
> another third party
> disk verification tool?
> 
> 

Version 5.2.3 will not open the database, and the
error  occurred at the end of the conversion.  But the
strange thing is I dragged PowerMail out of
applications back onto the desktop and opened it from
the desktop and it quit asking me to convert the
database - it worked perfectly.  Then I dragged it
back into applications and it continues to work just
fine, so it seems to have fixed itself.

Kathleen

Re: PowerMail Upgrade

[K Lewis]

--- PowerMail Engineering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> - Is PowerMail 5.2.3 still able to open your message
> database?
> - Can you describe more precisely when the error
> occurred? Immediately
> after beginning the database conversion, during the
> conversion, during
> the compaction that occurs automatically at the end
> of the conversion?
> - Have you checked your disk using Disk Utility, or
> another third party
> disk verification tool?
> 
> 

Version 5.2.3 will not open the database, and the
error  occurred at the end of the conversion.  But the
strange thing is I dragged PowerMail out of
applications back onto the desktop and opened it from
the desktop and it quit asking me to convert the
database - it worked perfectly.  Then I dragged it
back into applications and it continues to work just
fine, so it seems to have fixed itself.

Kathleen

Best format for archiving messages?

[Mark Smith]

Having just exported a bunch of messages from last year, I would like 
to hear what people here think is the best format to use when exporting 
messages from the PM database for archives?

I used the PowerMail Exchange format this time, but wonder if some of 
the other options (Unix Mailbox or Netscape/Mozilla) might not be 
better. The main reason I used PowerMail Exchange was a desire to have 
the archive searchable via Spotlight, since I will be deleting the 
messages in my active database shortly.

The PowerMail Exchange format does not appear to have included 
attachments, even though the option was selected in the Export dialog. 
Having the messages archived in a Spotlight friendly format along with 
their attachments (where they still exist) would be very useful, and 
would allow me to prune my active database on a regular (anual) basis.

What is the best way to achieve this?
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