Re: MobileMe and Push-eMail

[Sean McBride]

Steve Tarpin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on 2008-6-16 1:19 PM said:

>I've avoided Apple's Mail application, having been an avid PowerMail
>user for 10-years now (since May of 1999). In all honesty, the features
>of MobileMe and the mail-push, server-side constant updating of multiple
>computers from "The Cloud" are awfully tempting. "The Cloud" is the
>direction of the future (GoogleApps, MobileMe etc), and eventually I
>will give in and make the move, unless...
>
>I guess this question is for Jerome and development team or anyone "in
>the know", but is there the possibility that Apple will "share" the
>cloud so that applications OTHER than native apps will operate on
>MobileMe? Any buzz at all in that regard? What would it take for CTM to
>offer such a service, even though if (this) one were to be paying the
>$99 to Apple already, I would be hard-pressed to pay additional money
>for the same (albeit better) piece of their overall package.
>
>I think I'm reading the writing on the wall in reference to "The Cloud",
>if small software developers don't adapt, they will eventually be left
>behind. This is the only reason I would abandon PowerMail, but for me it
>is a compelling reason, and will become more evident as time rolls forward.

Well, Apple currently provides developers with a .Mac SDK, so they may
expand it to cover these new features.  Or not.  We'll see.  And if CTM
knows, they're under NDA.

But 3rd Party developers will always be behind Apple in this regard,
since of course teams within Apple get to use each other's code before
any of us.

And judging by the mediocre integration with Address Book (SDK
introduced in 10.2), I'm pessimistic.  :(

Sean

powermail-discuss Digest #2844 - 06/18/08

[PowerMail discussions]

powermail-discuss Digest #2844 - Wednesday, June 18, 2008

  Re: Review of Power Mail
  by "Michael Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  Re: Review of Power Mail
  by "A-NO-NE Music" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  SpamSieve issues (was "Re: Review of Power Mail")
  by "MB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  Re: Review of Power Mail
  by "MB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  Re: Review of Power Mail
  by "A-NO-NE Music" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


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Subject: Re: Review of Power Mail
From: "Michael Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:37:35 -0500

Bill Lane sez:

> And jpg attachments never seemed to turn up correctly 'in
>line'.

This is precisely one more point for why mail programs can't be
everything to everyone. I don't want my attachments shown inline. I want
them at the end of the mail where I can click on them if I wish to view
them. And, if I do not want to view them, I want to simply send them to
the trash by deleting the mail (as Powermail does) or by selecting
individual attachments and trashing them (as Powermail allows). I don't
care about the mail with one thousand cute kitten photos next to little
cute sayings. If I get photos I like, I can view them in Preview by just
clicking on them or drag them over to iPhoto to save.

Of course, other people's mileage will vary. If PowerMail does allow
this great inline viewing at some point, I hope they give me a
preference to turn it off and show the names of the pics or other
attachments old-style. Mail.app does not allow this. HTML is either on
or off, and I get a button to load images if it's off. Not what I want,
even if people think it is what I need. :)

--
Michael Lewis
Off Balance Productions
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.offbalance.com


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Subject: Re: Review of Power Mail
From: "A-NO-NE Music" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:54:14 -0400


I belong to quite a few software beta groups.  Almost all of them posts
bug reports with embedded images from Apple Mail, and PM won't handle
them since they don't come as HTML mail.

When someone embeds series of images with its name being generic, I have
to guess the sequences.  Lately it got worse.  PM is picking up wrong
files.  When I open the attachment, PM is so confused and showing me
totally wrong images probably because the file name is generic screen
capture appended by long numbers.

These days I feel I am cornered to switch to Apple Mail.  Is there any
solution to this?  By the way, First Aid didn't work to remedy this
problem.  I have a feeling PM can't handle 13,000 files in the
attachment folder.

--

- Hiro

Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA
 



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Subject: SpamSieve issues (was "Re: Review of Power Mail")
From: "MB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 06:00:14 +0200

Bill Lane imagined:

>with PowerMail, I
>remember having to reconfigure it every time I upgraded either program.
Nope.
>And it seemed to want to dump its "corpus" every once in a while.
Nope.

SpamSieve just works. It is 99.6 % correct with my PowerMail messages.
Since years.


Mikael

Technoids:
PM 5.6.3 build 4504 sv / SpamSieve 2.6.6 sv | OS X 10.4.8 | Powerbook
G4/400 | 1GB / 80GB


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Subject: Re: Review of Power Mail
From: "MB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:02:12 +0200

A-NO-NE Music said:

> PM is picking up wrong
>files.  When I open the attachment, PM is so confused and showing me
>totally wrong images probably because the file name is generic screen
>capture appended by long numbers.

I think OM uses aliases, so I wouldn't think the name throws it off
unless the alias in question is broken.


Mikael

Technoids:
PM 5.6.3 build 4504 sv / SpamSieve 2.6.6 sv | OS X 10.4.8 | Powerbook
G4/400 | 1GB / 80GB




Mikael

Technoids:
PM 5.6.3 build 4504 sv / SpamSieve 2.6.6 sv | OS X 10.4.8 | Powerbook
G4/400 | 1GB / 80GB


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Subject: Re: Review of Power Mail
From: "A-NO-NE Music" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:58:05 -0400

MB / 08.6.18 / 8:02 AM wrote:

>I think OM uses aliases, so I wouldn't think the name throws it off
>unless the alias in question is broken.

Not too sure about this, because sometimes it opens correct attachment
after reboot, but not after restarting PM.  It seems as if PM caches
with wrong pointer.

--

- Hiro

Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA
 



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End of powermail-discuss Digest

Re: Review of Power Mail

[A-NO-NE Music]

MB / 08.6.18 / 8:02 AM wrote:

>I think OM uses aliases, so I wouldn't think the name throws it off
>unless the alias in question is broken.

Not too sure about this, because sometimes it opens correct attachment
after reboot, but not after restarting PM.  It seems as if PM caches
with wrong pointer.

--

- Hiro

Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA
 

Re: Review of Power Mail

[MB]

A-NO-NE Music said:

> PM is picking up wrong
>files.  When I open the attachment, PM is so confused and showing me
>totally wrong images probably because the file name is generic screen
>capture appended by long numbers.

I think OM uses aliases, so I wouldn't think the name throws it off
unless the alias in question is broken.


Mikael

Technoids:
PM 5.6.3 build 4504 sv / SpamSieve 2.6.6 sv | OS X 10.4.8 | Powerbook
G4/400 | 1GB / 80GB




Mikael

Technoids:
PM 5.6.3 build 4504 sv / SpamSieve 2.6.6 sv | OS X 10.4.8 | Powerbook
G4/400 | 1GB / 80GB

SpamSieve issues (was "Re: Review of Power Mail")

[MB]

Bill Lane imagined:

>with PowerMail, I 
>remember having to reconfigure it every time I upgraded either program.  
Nope.
>And it seemed to want to dump its "corpus" every once in a while.  
Nope.

SpamSieve just works. It is 99.6 % correct with my PowerMail messages.
Since years.


Mikael

Technoids:
PM 5.6.3 build 4504 sv / SpamSieve 2.6.6 sv | OS X 10.4.8 | Powerbook
G4/400 | 1GB / 80GB