powermail-discuss Digest #3139 - Friday, July 24, 2015
Fwd: Underlining goes away when message sent
by Winston Weinmann weinm...@mindspring.com
Re: The end was: I did it again -- what a dummy!
by Thomas L. Miller t...@tlmiller.net
Magic - wasThe end was: I did it again -- what a dummy!
by T.L. Miller t...@tlmiller.net
Re: Magic - wasThe end was: I did it again -- what a dummy!
by PowerMail Engineering jer...@ctmdev.com
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Subject: Fwd: Underlining goes away when message sent
From: Winston Weinmann weinm...@mindspring.com
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 13:25:58 -0500
I tried to send this in HTML to the Discussion List, as it's about an HTML
problem, but got the message back:
Your message could not be posted to the PowerMail discussions list because
the message contained HTML and the list does not accept HTML messages.
So my examples are all in plain text. In the HTML version, Bold is in bold,
Italic is in italics, and Underline is not underlined.
- Winston Weinmann
On rare occasions I use PowerMail's HTML (FormatMake Rich Text) option,
usually so that I can use bold, italic and underlining.
I've just noticed that when I send a message, any underlining I did goes away.
The sent message has no underlining in places it had it in the draft.
The same thing happens if I save a message as a draft, then close and reopen
it. Underlining goes away. Example:
Bold
Italic
Underline
PowerMail version 6.2 build 4666 on Mac OS 10.4.11.
Any solution?
Thanks.
- Winston Weinmann
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Subject: Re: The end was: I did it again -- what a dummy!
From: Thomas L. Miller t...@tlmiller.net
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 16:33:23 -0400
Well, copying over the 4 .oldâ files the the other drives after removing the
.old didn't help.
I think that when I restarted my iMac after cloning and saw the problem, I had
PM First Aid also compact the database. I restarted from a clone, saw the same
problem and may have compacted that too when running PM First Aid. Therefore,
the 4 sets of .old files are copies of bad versions.
There are folders missing in Mail Browser and my mac.com still showing as POP3,
and I think that change was done before 2013. I think there is something else
that is causing that problem.
So, it looks like if I want to continue to use PM, I have to set up missing
accounts and use a database missing all the messages from 2014 and most from
2013 and 2015.
It is truly odd that this problem started after cloning to an external hard
drive. Something I had done 100s of times! Sure wish I could go back to last
Saturday in a time machine.
Tom Miller
On Jul 23, 2015, at 12:07 PM, Thomas L. Miller t...@tlmiller.net wrote:
Jérôme, thanks for the response. I tried a shortcut of what you recommended
at the bottom (I have two other copies of the entire PM folder on the other
drives). I put an âXâ in front of the file names of the 4 (current) items
and removed â.oldâ from the other 4. That didnât help, but I think that
could be because I compacted the database when I ran PM First Aid a day or two
ago. I may have done the same thing with one of the other drives. However. I
guess I can copy over from the .oldâ files from the 3rd drive and try that.
Ought to work, right??
The really odd thing is that PM was working perfectly when I quit it before
cloning. I have cloned (SuperDuper) my hard drive 100s of times over the years
with no problems. The clone is a copy of everything â web browser history,
apps, Preferences, Libraries, music, photos, everything. Never has a restart
of my Mac resulted in a change of PMâs Message Databases. These external
hard drives are only active when Iâm making clones â otherwise they are
turned off/disconnected. Very, very, very odd to have this problem
Tom Miller
On Jul 23, 2015, at 9:02 AM, PowerMail Engineering jer...@ctmdev.com wrote:
Thomas L. Miller wrote:
I saved an unsent message, quit PowerMail and cloned my iMacâs hard
drive to two external hard drives â nothing unusual, I do every week.
I restarted from the internal drive, and after PM started, I saw that
except for some very recent messages, I was missing all the messages
sent after mid-September 2013.
Obviously, PowerMail is now using an older version of your database, and has
only retrieved very recent messages still present on the server.
First possibility: instead of copying your database to the backup drive, you
copied in the wrong way, replacing your main database with the backup. However
if your backup was 1 week old, then you should not have lost all messages since
September 2013.
Second possibility: PowerMail has switched to another database, which was a
backup you made in September 2013. If your two external drives were still
mounted
