Re: No PowerMail selection in iPhoto '08
From: Howard Mullinack [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 15:37:53 -0400 I just used iPhoto Mailer Patcher 4.1 on iPhoto 08 (7.1) and it worked for me. http://homepage.mac.com/jacksim/software/imp41.html [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:56:29 -0700 To add to the confusion: I can't remember the last time I used iPhoto Mailer Patcher, but it hasn't been in a long time. Nevertheless, when I upgraded to iPhoto 08, PowerMail was already listed in the Preferences. In fact, there are 10 mail programs listed. Did you run all the iPhoto patches? I am at 7.1 (347). - Chris Christopher Plummer ZebraTale, LLC Macintosh Lotus Domino Consulting = ** Chris's UNPREDICTABLE and OCCASIONAL Newsletter for Macintosh and iPod Users ** Archives at Unpredictable Mac - http:// www.unpredictablemac.com === Hate was just a legend. War was never known. People worked together, and they lifted many stones. And they carried them to the flat lands, but they died along the way. And they built up with their bare hands what we still can't do today. Cortez the Killer, Neil Young, Zuma, 1974
Re: Powermail index/search error, any help?
Greetings all, Checking in to report that the suggestion below worked. The export process makes it fairly easy to identify a suspect message. Trashing the message leaves no doubt, as the message cannot be deleted. (The only way I found to eliminate the unremovable trashed message was to delete the whole mail file.) So I had to go back to the original mail file and start over a couple of times because there were several bad messages. I had to mess with folders some, and successfully rebuilt my mail file and index. The 'new' file worked fine for a day or so, then the problem returned! This did not seem to be from a newly received message, but one that had somehow been 'missed' by the export process. I repeated the process all over again, and my re-created mail file and index have worked fine now for over a week. Many thanks to Jerome!! - - Chris Christopher Plummer ZebraTale, LLC Macintosh Lotus Domino Consulting On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:00:01 +0100,Jerome [EMAIL PROTECTED], allegedly wrote: Subject: Re: Powermail index/search error, any help? From: It seems like a problem with the index being corrupted, presumably by some particular badly formatted message? I have tried the usual techniques, trashing the index and rebuilding it, and also running the complete set of startup rebuild functions. In fact the STL error occurs after a complete rebuild of the index of (16,000?) messages when it tries to optimize the index. Try to export your entire mail database to the PowerMail Exchange format. As there is probably a corrupted message, this could fail. In this case, you can take a look at the exported file with a text editor (or import it to a new database - menu file / database / new user environment) to determine which message could be corrupted. Messages are exported folder by folder, and inside a given folder, by date saved. The corrupted message should be the message following the last exported message. In case you can't get rid of the corrupted message (it could cause an error when moving to the trash or using the delete message immediately script), you can export your messages one or multiple folders at a time (instead of exporting the entire message database), or multiple messages at a time for the folder that you can't export without an error. Then you can create a new user environment and import your messages there. You can then copy the old Setup Database file to copy your accounts, filters etc to the new user environment. Note that you will need to verify all your filter that move messages to a specific folder, as the folder reference will be changed in the new user environment. Also, if you leave the messages on the POP server, you will re-download the message still present on the server; to avoid this, you can purge retrieved messages, from the accounts dialog, on your old user environment, before switching to the new one. Jerome - CTM Engineering = ** Chris's UNPREDICTABLE and OCCASIONAL Newsletter for Macintosh and iPod Users ** Archives at Unpredictable Mac - http:// www.unpredictablemac.com ===
Powermail index/search error, any help?
On Intel MacBook w/2 Gig RAM and OS X ver. 10.4.9, PowerMail version 5.5.2, Message db 112 Mb, Message db index 33 Mb, Message db Spotlight cache 100 Mb. I've had an annoying problem with PowerMail for about a year, and though I've written directly to Support several times, I can't seem to elicit any response. It seems like a problem with the index being corrupted, presumably by some particular badly formatted message? I have tried the usual techniques, trashing the index and rebuilding it, and also running the complete set of startup rebuild functions. In fact the STL error occurs after a complete rebuild of the index of (16,000?) messages when it tries to optimize the index. The error(s) don't prevent me from using Powermail, and after clicking through the error dialogs it seems that the Find function is working... When Powermail launches - An STL exception occurred Class=std; what=6; when = 100 When initiating a Find from within Powermail - A memory error occurred: Class=std; what=1; when =100 I imagine that starting over with a brand new mail file would be a solution - if you could call it that - but does anyone else have any ideas? Such as how to locate the offending message? If I have to start over, I am going to seriously question why I want to stick with PowerMail... Thanks in advance, - Chris Christopher Plummer Ask the right questions. - Kate Stockton
Subject: Invisible Mail in Folder
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 20:01:04 +0200, PowerMail discussions, Rick Lecoat [EMAIL PROTECTED], allegedly wrote: Make sure that the offending folders have 'View All selected, not 'View Unread' (from the View Menu). This works on a folder-by-folder basis I believe. From: Christopher Plummer [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a recent effort to take advantage of PM's fast search, and to simplify my mail folder structure, I started pulling mail out of subfolders, dropping it into the parent folder, and then deleting the subfolder. snip For example, I have a 'Vendors' folder that appears to have nothing in it, but at the bottom of the window it says 0 displayed of 547. I have used all the utilities to rebuild the entire database, index, etc. to no avail. Is there any way to make these invisible messages re- appear? I might have guessed the solution was easy, but not necessarily obvious (to me anyway!) That was exactly it. The ability of folders to each have a unique property of View read/unread was what made the messages 'disappear' . When pulled from a subfolder (with View All set) and dropped to a parent folder (with View Unread), they disappeared! Thanks Rick! Best, - Chris Christopher Plummer ZebraTale, LLC Macintosh Lotus Domino Consulting === ** CHRIS'S UNPREDICTABLE and OCCASIONAL Newsletter for Mac Users ** Check the UNPREDICTABLE archive - http://www.unpredictablemac.com ===
Subject: Re: Add new signature?
On Fri, 28 May 2004 20:01:04 +0200, Ben Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED], allegedly wrote: On 28 5 2004 at 11:18 am -0400, Wayne Brissette wrote: The big green + in the signatures area creates a new one. If you leave your mouse pointer over the icons for a second or two the function of the icon appears on the screen. Note the toolbar must be exposed (via the swallowable capsule in the upper-right of the window) for any of these to appear. Ah, of course! In terms of UI design, I propose that in several of these windows (this signatures one for example) the toolbar should mandatorily be displayed, with no option to accidentally hide it. I agree. I don't expect a 'dialog' to have optional elements. and cheshirekat [EMAIL PROTECTED] added: The menus in PowerMail are dynamic. They will change to reflect the options available for the type of window currently open, so choices 3 and 4 above may not be obvious if you aren't used to looking up in the menus as you work with different windows. The menus also change when modifier keys are pressed. I completely forgot about the dynamic PM menus. I still cast my vote for a Context Menu for this function. Thanks everyone! - Chris Plummer _ You can never escape; you can only move south down the coast. Mrs. Potter's Lullaby Adam Duritz Counting Crows, This Desert Life
Add new signature?
Panther 10.3.4, PM 5.0, PB 800, 1Gig RAM Hello, I can use selected text in a message to add a new Text Signature from just about anywhere using an Applescript Create Signature [Thanks to W. Eric Tyson for that!]. How else do I create a Text Signature? I have a Context Menu to create a new Text Clipping (would like to have a CM for the Signature.) When I select Setup/Text Signatures... I get a dialog listing all my signatures, but short of replacing an existing one, I don't see any way to create a new one. I imagine there is something easy I'm missing here, but I'd claim that it's not obvious! TIA, - Chris Plummer === ** CHRIS'S UNPREDICTABLE and OCCASIONAL Newsletter for Mac Users ** ===
Somewhat long - Comments on 5.0
Panther 10.3.3, PB 800, 1Gig Ram 1) After forgetting that I had the registration key and launching the first time into 'Demo mode', dropping the key on the application worked as expected. Upgrading to PowerMail 5 in Release Notes mentions updating your database or creating a new one but provides no details. The Upgrade from PowerMail 3-4.webloc document, pointing to http://www.ctmdev.com/ upgrade/start, brought up a Not Found page. Thanks to the List, I was able to figure out that I needed to use File/ Database/Switch User Environment (not Import) to get my existing PM stuff to work with 5. This should be better documented, or included in a PM dialog to avoid confusion. After a 20-30 minute conversion, all my scripts, signatures, config, and filters came through beautifully. Speed and interface improvements are awesome! 2) By default my Cocoa toolbar in Recent Mail and opened mail documents was 'hidden', so I had some brief confusion about the absence of the Paper Clip and Send buttons. I used the silver button on the far right to toggle it. 3) I agree with those who believe the In Tray and Out Tray icons should have little arrows on them. 4) I don't use Spamsieve. My PM-only filters are about 99% effective. I had my own 'Spam' folder, so had to change the name of that and then modify the filters to put SPAM in the new SPAM folder. I had previously set these filters to first put SPAM in Trash and then move it to SPAM folder, so that filtered SPAM would not appear in 'Recent Mail'. [Thanks to whomever provided that tip on the List!] Is there some automatic settiing for that now with 5? 5) The List Pop-up button (which appears at the bottom when you open a List mail) is great! Can we get the PM list to support more of these options such as List Owner and List Archive? 6) I would STILL LOVE to see a Reply to List Post option that would parse the selection from a Digest with a Reply sent to the list, but quoting the From: field of the selected post, and using the Subject from the selection instead of PowerMail discussion digest blah, blah. There was an Applescript (or was it Emailer Tools?) that did this in the old days. 7) I don't care much about HTML mail, but I would like to see a little picture of the sender and/or recipient of mail when there is a picture available in Apple's Address book, the way iChat and Apple Mail do. :-) 8) Minor Request: In Setup/Mail Filters (dialog), I would like to quickly review my existing filters. Tried to do this by starting with the list at the top and using [Down Arrow]. This works the first time, jumping to the second filter, but the next [Down Arrow] takes the curser to the active field in the Conditions section of the dialog, and then the arrow keys control the cursor within the selected field. [Tab] and [Shift] + [Tab] move me nicely from field to field and eventually re-activate the Filter List. Modifiers don't appear to have any effect on the arrow keys when in the Filter List. The fastest way I could figure to key through the Filter List was to use the mouse. With the keyboard, it was: [Down Arrow] [Tab] [Tab] (Number of further tabs depends on complexity of filter) until Filter List is active Repeat. I would like, with the Filter List active, to be able to [Down Arrow] my way through my filters. Many thanks to CTMdev and all of you who contributed to this new version! - Chris === ** CHRIS'S UNPREDICTABLE and OCCASIONAL Newsletter for Mac Users ** ===
Re: How to keep message toolbar as default
On Tue, 25 May 2004 20:01:00 +0200, Cap Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED], allegedly wrote: Subject: How to keep message toolbar as default From: Cap Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 13:26:56 -0700 I like having the functionality of the toolbar available in messages (after I've double-clicked them to make them larger), but I don't like having to use View Show Toolbar for each message. Is there a way to make this sticky so it becomes the default behavior until I change it? Try toggling it using the silver(?) button in the upper right, opposite the red,amber, green buttons. Once I switched the toolbar 'on' here, it stayed on for new messages, after quitting/restarting PM. - Chris === ** CHRIS'S UNPREDICTABLE and OCCASIONAL Newsletter for Mac Users ** ===
Re: Best feature/feature request
At last, another vote! Some time ago I suggested a Context Menu: File In with a list of folders. File In New Folder would be great too. Maybe in some future release? - Chris On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 20:01:04 +0100, PowerMail discussions, Greg, allegedly wrote: Oh my!... I never knew Powermail had this feature.. So I spent a bit hunting around for it... This is *really* awesome! - Greg snip What would make this even better, though, would be a fast and efficient way -- preferably with a keystroke -- to pop up a list of folders from within the Recent Mail browser so I could file those messages that aren't caught by my filters. I realize I can do this by opening the message in its own window and using the File In popup. I just wish this popup were available in the Recent Mail window, and/or could be activated by keystroke. Sherman === ** CHRIS'S UNPREDICTABLE and OCCASIONAL Newsletter for Mac Users ** Check the UNPREDICTABLE archive - http://www.unpredictablemac.com ===
Re: Artifacts
I see the red dots quite often, and if I keep PowerMail open for a long writing/editing session, I can get one in nearly every line down the left side of my window. (I have one to play with right now.) I'd say it's smaller than a period. Maybe just a single pixel. They stick to the window location regardless of scrolling, and through window moves, but resizing the window kills them. When I look very closely, I can see that there are actually a bunch of them on the inner left edge of the window, but they are nearly invisible. I think somehow they 'clump' together and then become visible (and annoying). I have generated a couple of screenshots which seem to confirm their presence and clumping and sent these along to PowerMail support. - Chris Plummer On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 16:51:28 +, Pat O'Halloran [EMAIL PROTECTED], allegedly wrote: Subject: Artifacts Does anyone else get the odd red artifact appearing down the left hand side of messages they are typing? I can't get them to appear on demand but they consist of a red dot, the size of a period at the extreme left edge of messages. They usually only appear a little way down the page, a couple of paragraphs or so, but don't always appear. For instance, I am typing this and waiting for them to show but so far nothing has happened. Has anyone else seen anything similar at all? === ** CHRIS'S UNPREDICTABLE and OCCASIONAL Newsletter for Mac Users ** the UNPREDICTABLE archive - http://www.unpredictablemac.com ===
Default Mail in Panther (slightly OT rant)
Panther Internet System Preferences: Web preferences (such as Default Web Browser) are now buried in Safari Preferences. Default Mail Application is buried in Apple's Mail app Preferences. What I found particularly annoying was that Mail app forced me to configure it with (more or less) valid configuration information before it would let me look at its Preferences to make sure that PowerMail was still the default. (Which it was.) For as long as I recall part of what Apple meant to computing was ease of use and choice. I see a trend now toward doing things not because they're easy, or intuitive, or even because they make sense, but either because that's what Windows users are used to or because it's our OS and our Apps and we'll do as we please. Does that mean that every mail client is going to have to include an option in it's own Prefs to make itself the Default Mail App? Is Apple going to allow 3rd party apps to do that? Or will we all be coerced into setting up Mail just so we can have the choice not to use it? I'm trying to get a little reality check here, because I think they've stepped over the line on this one. Maybe I'm wrong. It seems like we've gone back about 10 years. Back before Internet Config put all the Internet configuration in one place, at the System level, outside of applications. Are these system level Preferences available anywhere else, or has the OS really been this Microsoftized? - Chris Plummer === check the UNPREDICTABLE archive - http://www.unpredictablemac.com ===
Address Book button for Apple AB?
Hello All, I'm pretty pleased with PM's integration with the Apple Address Book at this point, and I may have missed this...I already have all the Apple Address Book related Preferences set to use Apple's AB. So is there a way to get the PM Address Book Button (or Window menu item for that matter) to open the Apple Address Book? I've tried the usual modifier keys when clicking, and it always opens PM's AB. If not, I'd like to request that as a new Preference. :-) TIA, Chris Plummer === ** CHRIS'S UNPREDICTABLE and OCCASIONAL Newsletter for Mac Users ** check the UNPREDICTABLE archive - http://www.unpredictablemac.com ===
Re:macosxhints - An AppleScript to email Safari URLs with titles
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 11:10:29 -0600, Wayne Brissette [EMAIL PROTECTED], allegedly wrote: I'd like to *start* from a message I'm working on in PM, grab the URL of the top window of the default web browser, and paste it at the current insertion point of my message. Does anyone have a script that will do that? snip There is no cursor selection in the PM AppleScript dictionary. Without one the best options would be a script that take the URL and put them either at the beginning or the very end of the document. followed on Mon, 24 Mar 2003 12:11:48 -0500 by Jonathan Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Considering you would have to run a script while in PM to hit Safari it would seem more efficient the other way... just my thought anyway. snip For me, it seems to be better to add once the URL is there... Pull or push? I like both ways, but I often find myself writing and wanting to pull a URL into the middle of a document. (Come to think of it, it would be great to be able to pull it into *any* application.) A paste from clipboard would be great, but I'd settle for being able to stick it at the end or beginning of the document currently being edited in PM. - Chris Plummer === ** CHRIS'S UNPREDICTABLE and OCCASIONAL Newsletter for Mac Users ** (Not exclusively) For Mac Users in Beautiful Western Central New Jersey. Published Unpredictably approximately every two weeks! Check the UNPREDICTABLE archive - http://www.unpredictablemac.com ===
Re:macosxhints - An AppleScript to email Safari URLs with titles
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 13:31:35 -0600, Wayne Brissette [EMAIL PROTECTED], allegedly wrote: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030318202727875#comments So normally I'm all for writing AppleScripts to solve problems. However this is one case where the recent AppleScript to mail a URL from Safari seem crude compared to the javascript solution... (FYI, I used it to send this email). Thanks again to Wayne and everyone else for all these additions! This one is great for originating a new mail from Safari! I'd like to *start* from a message I'm working on in PM, grab the URL of the top window of the default web browser, and paste it at the current insertion point of my message. Does anyone have a script that will do that? Much thanks, Chris Plummer === ** CHRIS'S UNPREDICTABLE and OCCASIONAL Newsletter for Mac Users ** (Not exclusively) For Mac Users in Beautiful Western Central New Jersey. Published Unpredictably approximately every two weeks! Check the UNPREDICTABLE archive - http://www.unpredictablemac.com ===
Re: Send with PowerMail PDF Service!
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 20:00:01 +0100, Jonathan Greene, [EMAIL PROTECTED], allegedly wrote: Through some solid trial and (many) error(s) I was able to figure out the send with PowerMail PDF Service! snip Sends ANY document you print as Print Job.pdf from within PowerMail. Yeow! Thanks Jonathan. This is awesome!! As is the rest of the exposed PDF Service architecture. Along the same lines, just saw today, PageSender, allows you to print to fax or print a pdf to email from the Print dialog of any app! Supports quite a few Mail clients (including PM), uses a variety of address books (including PM's and Apple's). Shareware $29.95. I haven't tried it yet, but has great reviews on VersionTracker. http://www.pagesender.com/ - Christopher Plummer === ** CHRIS'S UNPREDICTABLE and OCCASIONAL Newsletter for Mac Users ** check the UNPREDICTABLE archive - http://www.unpredictablemac.com ===
Re: Newbie reflections: Driven Mad by Keyboard shortcut
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 20:00:01 +0100, PowerMail discussions, Max Gossell [EMAIL PROTECTED], allegedly wrote: 1) Command+: (Menu: Edit/Spelling/Spelling) 2) Choosing a certain dictionary from the drop down menu in the Spelling window (which I would guess would be the real hard part...) 3) Close the Spelling window This might be doable with the (currently beta) GUI Applescripting. See Scripting the Unscriptable in Mac OS X by Matt Neuburg in TidBITS#670: http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-670.html#lnk3 - Christopher Plummer === ** CHRIS'S UNPREDICTABLE and OCCASIONAL Newsletter for Mac Users ** check the UNPREDICTABLE archive - http://www.unpredictablemac.com ===
