Re: Test msg
I guess that even with a brand new PowerMail 6 version this month, there is not much talk about it. Maybe that means that it is working so well that there is nothing to talk about? ;-) Or maybe it means something else? DN in reply to (ch...@mymac.demon.co.uk), Chris's message of 12:08 AM, 12/30/08 Can someone reply to this test msg please. I've not been getting anything from the list since well before the holidays.
Re: Importing messages from Eudora 6
Hi, I'm not sure what happened in your case, but the best mail converter is called Emailchemy from www.WeirdKid.com Not free, but far faster and better than anything else out there. It can read the native db format of several major email programs and convert between pretty much any email system. I recommend it highly. It has a free demo mode, that works, but obscures the message subject lines. in reply to (new...@tobiasjung.net), Tobias Jung's message of 3:36 AM, 12/19/08 Hello, currently I'm testing PowerMail to see if it's going to be my next email client. Yesterday I imported an Eudora 6.x mailbox file containing about 380 messages. Many messages were imported fine, but 92 message show no content at all in PM 6. I can see the headers but the full body text is lost. This is not just a matter of display, I exported the mail folder in question then from PM using mbox format and opened the resulting file with a text editor: Body text is missing there, too. Moreover, some of those messages are displayed in PM with a 0 K size while other claim to have enormous sizes, such as 2 GB. As far as I can tell, most (maybe all) of the messages were sent by Microsoft Outlook using HTML format. Is this a known issue? Is there a way to avoid this? Kind regards, Tobias Jung
Re: Retrieving a password
Another way is to run EavesDrop and let it sniff your network traffic for a minute or so while you check for email. This works well if your password is being sent as plain text. Also useful for regaining your own FTP passwords. in reply to ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), John Brave's message of 7:44 AM, 12/5/08 #1 - I have a gmail account and I forgot the password. The only place that has the correct password is my powermail settings. How can I retrieve my password from powermail in order to log in to gmail and change some of the settings there?
test?
Just checking to see if the list is working. I haven't seen any new emails since 11/5/08, and this seems especially odd since there is also n new PowerMail version 6. DN
Re: PM6 hopes.. was:: reason for HTML-only?
Please add to my list of Hopes for PM6: * Ability to highlight copy text in a html message. Dave N in reply to ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Dave N's message of 10:40 AM, 8/24/08 Since I have (finally) started to use the 3 pane view, I noticed that PM doesn't allow you to edit unsent emails in the 3rd pane. Even if you save an email reopen it in the 3rd pane later, you may view, but not edit there. Sort of odd that you must open the unsent email in a separate window to work on it. This is a minor complaint, but one easily fixed in PM6 perhaps. Along with the usual feature requests of: *Normal Printing (with a print dialog box, message headers, choice of html or text versions, etc) * the infamous html issues * Find/Replace function in the email being edited. * Smart folders (saved searches) * Pop-up menu to file incoming emails AND outgoing emails. * More choices of toolbar functions. * Lift the 2 gb db limit. * Even more robust Filter criteria, to include IF this AND that, OR IF the other thing, then... * Continued support for the existing great features of PM for Power users. Best, Dave N in reply to ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Bill Schjelderup's message of 9:54 AM, 8/24/08 I sure hope Powermail v6 is a real product and not vaporwareand that one of it's major enhancements is better integration of HTML email.
Re: PM6 hopes.. was:: reason for HTML-only?
Since I have (finally) started to use the 3 pane view, I noticed that PM doesn't allow you to edit unsent emails in the 3rd pane. Even if you save an email reopen it in the 3rd pane later, you may view, but not edit there. Sort of odd that you must open the unsent email in a separate window to work on it. This is a minor complaint, but one easily fixed in PM6 perhaps. Along with the usual feature requests of: *Normal Printing (with a print dialog box, message headers, choice of html or text versions, etc) * the infamous html issues * Find/Replace function in the email being edited. * Smart folders (saved searches) * Pop-up menu to file incoming emails AND outgoing emails. * More choices of toolbar functions. * Lift the 2 gb db limit. * Even more robust Filter criteria, to include IF this AND that, OR IF the other thing, then... * Continued support for the existing great features of PM for Power users. Best, Dave N in reply to ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Bill Schjelderup's message of 9:54 AM, 8/24/08 I sure hope Powermail v6 is a real product and not vaporwareand that one of it's major enhancements is better integration of HTML email.
Re: reason for HTML-only?
I don't know, but I'm getting a lot of those. Some look like almost blank in Powermail, and I have to use Apple Mail to view them. It's getting harder to stick with PM now. CTM: Please hurry up with v 6! We need some important features, like being able to forward an (html) email without ruining it. And printing that works as expected. And a Find/Replace function. DN in reply to ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), MB's message of 7:19 AM, 8/21/08 Do anyone here have clue on what possible reasons there could be to choosing to send HTML-only messages, instead of mixed messages without a pure text part as well?
Re: HTML mail comparison PM vs AM
Hi Jérôme, Thanks for the explanation. It always helps to understand the problem. Whether we all like it or not, html mail is becoming more common, not less. So let's look forward to a solution. Would it be possible to let Webkit provide the services to view the html message within PowerMail? Could the complex message be assembled on the fly when there is a request to view a certain complex message? So maybe it would not be necessary to change the PM db structure, and still provide more robust viewing of html messages. This might also be helpful when the PowerMail user wants to reply to a blank message with html attachment, so the message text could be quoted (as plain text, or even, Gasp! in it's original format). That would be a labor-saving advancement. When I receive one of these html messages (as an attachment) I generally open the html attachment with Safari or FireFox, copy the text and run the script Replace Message Text with Clipboard to put this text into the received incoming message. Then I can delete the html attachment. If the incoming message displayed any text at all, then I add a step: after copying the text from the web browser, I paste it into TextWrangler, copy any text from the PM message, paste into Text Wrangler to assemble the entire desired message to save, then copy run that script to put this text into the incoming PM message. Kind of a lot of busy work that I don't always have time for. Here is the script for anyone that wants it. http://dave.sbamug.com/pmdisclist/scripts/Replace_with_clipboard.zip After Unzipping, drop this script into ~/Mail/PowerMail Files/Customs Scripts and restart PM. Perhaps this could be automated built into PowerMail? Or perhaps PowerMail can use Webkit to display the message on request? Or since AppleMail is scriptable and has a framework, (getting wild here) maybe PowerMail could send html messages to AppleMail for processing and return. Or even better, if PowerMail includes a a converter/html display engine so that PM will still work after Apple changes something again. None of us would want PM to break just because Apple changed something (again) in the OS or iApp. Somehow, there can be a solution. Best, Dave N in reply to ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), PowerMail Engineering's message of 5:12 AM, 6/20/08 Yes, PowerMail has some limitations when displaying complex messages, which contain mixed HTML and plain text parts, or multiple HTML parts. These limitations are not easy to fix: this would require modifying how messages are saved in PowerMail's database, and combining multiple parts in a single HTML view can produce unexpected results, depending on how the HTML parts are designed. We chose to handle these messages as if the HTML parts were attachments, so you can display them individually in the web browser. Also, although these messages are valid regarding the MIME standard, it is normally the job of the sending email client to format complex messages in a unique HTML part, rather than the receiving email client to handle multiple HTML or HTML+text parts. Jérôme - CTM Engineering
HTML mail comparison PM vs AM
Ok, this html mail thing is getting more annoying all the time. Even if I want to push the globe button in PowerMail, it is not always there because PowerMail does not always notice the message is in HTML format. Look at the difference between the 2 programs viewing the SAME EXACT EMAIL. PowerMail shows me a totally blank message with a html attachment, with no provision for viewing the message. It's just blank. Lame. AppleMail shows me the message so I can read it. Obviously this is possible. I'm starting to see more of this kind of problem, and CTM really needs to do something about it. Or else PM will be an impediment to communication. Here are the screen photos. See the difference? http://dave.sbamug.com/pmdisclist/AppleMail_msg.png http://dave.sbamug.com/pmdisclist/PowerMail_msg.png I still prefer sending plain text emails. But I've gotten used to having a powerful email client (PM of course) that does things right. However, it seems the world is still advancing, and now PM needs to catch up. Like any tough love, I wouldn't spend the time to bring this up if I didn't care. Here's hope for the future, and hope that the future includes an updated, more powerful version of PowerMail. Best, Dave N
Re: Review of Power Mail
Well the Claris Emailer Talk list is/was like that too! :-) What does that mean?! Dave N in reply to ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Tim Hodgson's message of 6:52 AM, 6/12/08 I don't think I've come across a mailing list before where so many of its members are no longer using the app under discussion.
Review of Power Mail in new MacWorld magazine
Review of PowerMail in new July 2008 MacWorld magazine And PowerMail didn't do well. It got only 2.5 Mice out of 5, to earn last place after Apple Mail, Entourage ThunderBird GMail GyazMail Yahoo Mail Outspring Mail PowerMail Full Reviews: http://www.macworld.com/article/132888/2008/04/powermail563.html http://www.macworld.com/article/132629/2008/03/apple_mail.html
Re: pwmail 6: i wish
I wish that when in the Recent Mail window that I could double-click the Folder name to open a new window showing that folder with this message highlighted so I could follow the thread. (Or just see the other related messages easily) I wish that PM would let me choose which folder to search in the search box, instead of making me leave the search window to click on the folder I want to search, then return to the search window to perform the search. I wish that the command-f for Find would allow a search of the current message instead of all messages except the very one I am working on. I wish that PM had a Find/Replace text function. Consider that we spend far more time in PM than in any word processor. We need decent text editing functions. I wish that PM could auto-correct the spelling mistakes I make most often, like don;t when I mean to type don't. I wish PM could print emails as you might expect from any Mac application. That is; by showing the Print dialog box first, and including the To/From/Subject/Date portion of the message (even if that message was viewed as html). I wish that PM could forward a html message without losing the html. I wish that PM could file read messages in a Read folder after reading them. (without needing to quit PM). I wish PM supported smart folders (like iTunes). I wish that more menu commands were available as toolbar icons, especially view long/short headers. I wish a right-click (or control-click) pop up menu in list views would let us file messages in folders, apply colored labels, and mark as spam/ not spam. I wish that in List view, we could see not only the sender's name, but their email address too. I wish there was a toolbar pull down menu for filing in folders, just like the single message view does. I wish that in single message view the File-Folders-new Folder was not unavailable. I wish that PM supported making new ToolBar icons to run AppleScripts. I wish there was a toolbar button for Show Raw Message Source. Especially in this age of rouge emails. (Yes I know of use an AppleScript for that). I wish that there could be different font sizes for reading composing vs printing. I wish that the spellchecker worked in the subject line. I wish that PM could display quote marks ' and instead of 1, 2 3 for messages sent from MS clients. I wish that PM message filters were as powerful as Claris Emailer was. If this this but not that, then do something. PM only offers to perform the result If all conditions are met, or if any condition is met. I wish there could be keyboard commands for the text clippings. I wish that after marking an open message as Spam, PM would close the message. I wish that when viewing a html message that hovering the mouse over a link would show where that link points to. I am glad that PowerMail does all that it does. Thank you for that. I do use it heavily. (Can you tell?) Dave N
Re: filesalvage powermail database
Data RescueII is King! Give it a try. http://www.prosofteng.com/ In the meantime Stop using that hard drive! You'll just make it less likely to recover your files. Hope this helps. Best, Dave Nathanson Mac Medix in reply to ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), DDV's message of 12:59 PM, 1/2/08 hello, does anybody have experience with recovering a powermail database from an emptied trash? i tried with filesalvage, but this only recognizes usual file types such as jpgs, word docs, etc. a powermail database doesn't have any extension (as far as i can tell), which makes it even more difficult to trace it. data rescue, any experience? thanks, ddv
Problem after syncing PM to AppleAddressBook
After I let PowerMail sync it's address book to the Apple Address Book, I realized that it inserted unwanted text after each every PM address book entry. Most of my email addresses now say work or home after them. Yuk! This is unexpected, unwanted, and inaccurate! Even odder, for one or 2 PM addresses, I changed the inaccurate work to something more sensible such as still good 12/17/07. And that was copied to Apple Address Book as a field label. I don't feel this is correct behavior, and I suspect that eventually, field labels made from comments, which may have slashes, or other odd characters may cause problems when syncing into a Palm pilot, iPhone, etc. Is there any way to eliminate all these work labels from my PM address book? They are wrong, and I don't want them. Best, Dave N
Re: Problem printing html messages
in reply to ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Matthias Schmidt's message of 5:42 PM, 12/17/07 Dave said: In addition, PowerMail will not print the message header info, so I'm left with just the HTML message body and no printed proof of date or who it came from/To. Just completely unsatisfactory! Matthias said: open the html in your webbrowser. You can do so by choosing the little globe on the bottom of the window and then choose show in webbrowser. From there you can print the html message. No big deal, always works for me. Dave says: Hi, So it seems that until CTM fixes this issue we must choose between printing an email with header info, or printing an email in html view (some html emails do not include a plain text version), not both. Most annoying of all is the lack of notice that I will not be allowed to change printers, nor see a page preview. Just yesterday I was swearing to myself because I wanted to print one page of an email, but was forced to waste 5 additional pages of paper color ink because the print dialog box does not appear as one might expect. I had wanted to print only the first page, and print it to the black white printer. It is my hope that CTM will address this issue at some point. Best, Dave N -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCM d(+) s: a+ C++ UM+++ P+ L+ E--- W+++ N+ K w--- M++$ PS+ PE Y+ PGP !R !tv(--) b+ DI D !G(G) e++ h--- r++ y+++ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
Problem printing html messages
So I receive a HTML message (a receipt for a purchase), and I want to print it. I press command p and want to choose the printer, and check the preview to make sure it is just 1 page Nope! Can't do it! As I am waiting for the Print Dialog box to show up, the color printer immediately prints the job! That is Not the printer I wanted to print to! I KNOW this has been discussed before, but the problem still exists, and it's really surprising that when dealing with a HTML message in html view that PowerMail won't allow a choice of printers, and won't allow a preview nor saving as a PDF from the print dialog box. Nor will it allow a choice of which pages to print. All because the Print dialog box is skipped when printing a html message. In addition, PowerMail will not print the message header info, so I'm left with just the HTML message body and no printed proof of date or who it came from/To. Just completely unsatisfactory! Best, Dave
Re: Did I make a huge mistake here?
My most recent DB is in my Applications folder. Why do you prefer to keep it there? Maybe because that's how Claris EMailer did it? ;-) DN
Re: Time Machine and Powermail SuperDuper (Quit PowerMail save open messages)
To make SuperDuper! run a script just prior to backup, Open this script in Script Editor and save the apple script as an application, (also keep a script version just to make sure you can still edit it later). It can be saved to any location. Then, in SuperDuper, select your source destination drives and click the options button. Click Advanced tab and X the box for Run a shell script before copy starts; and select your script. Click OK to exit this window and if you like, Schedule this whole operation to happen on a regular basis. Hope this helps. Best, Dave Nathanson Mac Medix in reply to ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Dave N's message of 11:25 PM, 11/12/07 The following applescript can be run by SuperDuper just before backup to Quit PowerMail, and save any open messages. Quit_PowerMail_If_Running_Save_Drafts.applescript set targetApp to PowerMail tell application System Events set processExists to exists process targetApp end tell if processExists is true then tell application PowerMail repeat with i from 1 to (count of windows) try if window i is modified then close window i with saving end if end try end repeat quit end tell end if Hope this helps. Best, Dave Nathanson Mac Medix in reply to ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Rick Lecoat's message of 6:32 AM, 11/12/07 Superduper can run a script prior to backup that could deal with the shutting down of PM,
Re: Time Machine and Powermail SuperDuper (Quit PowerMail save open messages)
The following applescript can be run by SuperDuper just before backup to Quit PowerMail, and save any open messages. Quit_PowerMail_If_Running_Save_Drafts.applescript set targetApp to PowerMail tell application System Events set processExists to exists process targetApp end tell if processExists is true then tell application PowerMail repeat with i from 1 to (count of windows) try if window i is modified then close window i with saving end if end try end repeat quit end tell end if Hope this helps. Best, Dave Nathanson Mac Medix in reply to ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Rick Lecoat's message of 6:32 AM, 11/12/07 Superduper can run a script prior to backup that could deal with the shutting down of PM,
Combine emails
Does anybody have an applescript that will combine several received emails into a single Digest suitable for forwarding? Basically I want to forward a thread of email list discussion to someone to catch them up. If I were to do it manually, I would probably Fwd each email (to preserve short headers) , then select all, copy paste that into the new message, add a line of == and repeat until all selected messages were taken care of in date order. (Oldest on top). Any suggestions or scripts? Or should I just do it manually? Best, Dave N
More problem with printing
If Powermail will not present us with a print dialog box prior to printing that causes additional problems: 1) It may print to the wrong printer (no option to choose) 2) It prints all pages, rather than just the desired pages. 3) Not possible to print to PDF. This in addition to not being able to print the message headers. DaveN
Re: Problem with Printing
I usually use (command p) to print. In some cases, notably the html messages (as viewed in html mode) I am never presented with a print dialog box, even if I command p to print. So it prints without a dialog box. I feel that is a violation of the UI, unexpected behavior, a bug, and causes problems. After all there is a dot dot dot after the word Print in the print... menu. That ... means that there will be another dialog box. The Print One is also ok, but should not act the same exact way as the Print... menu item. Perhaps this problem is only happening on intel Macs? My system: PowerMail 5.5.3 build 4480 OSX 10.4.8 10.4.9, Intel iMac. To replicate problem: --- View any message with a html globe at the bottom left. (If necessary; double-click the message so it appears in it's own window). Click the little globe to view the message in html mode. Pull the file menu to Print... or press command p. Note; no print dialog box, but after a short delay the entire email is printed to the most recently used printer. Is it like that for you? It's also printing way too big (large font) because I like to view them onscreen larger. There should be separate controls for printing viewing sizes. But that is a separate issue. DaveN in reply to ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Ira Lansing's message of 3:07 PM, 5/18/07 Subject: More problem with printing From: Dave N [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 09:08:10 -0700 If Powermail will not present us with a print dialog box prior to printing that causes additional problems: 1) It may print to the wrong printer (no option to choose) 2) It prints all pages, rather than just the desired pages. 3) Not possible to print to PDF. This in addition to not being able to print the message headers. DaveN If I understand your issues, PM provides a print dialog if you click and HOLD the printer icon (or go to FilePrint) and choose Print Many people like the convenience of immediate printing of the frontmost e-mail, but I suppose a preference setting to allow which type of printing takes place would please everyone. --Ira
Only prints 1 page (of many)
Ok, so I know there is a problem printing HTML mail, but this is a plain text mail, and PM refuses to print more than the 1st page of it. PM does print the message header (good) but absolutely will not print nor preview pages 2- 4. All I can do is to copy/paste the text into another program to print. A quick check of other emails shows that I can only print page 1 of all the emails I checked. I have page set up set to 80% (also tried 100%), letter size paper, and any printer. Also tried selecting my laser printer in the PAge Set up, but it doesn't matter, PowerMail will only print page 1 of any email I try to print. Does anyone else have this problem? What can be done? PowerMail version: PowerMail version 5.5.3 build 4480 English (intel) Mac OS version: 10.4.8 DaveN
Preserving open windows
Is there any way PowerMail can preserve the state of open windows - so they can still be there when PowerMail is relaunched? I usually have a number of open windows; some are search results, various email list folders, and several messages. It would be a great feature of those windows were to continue to exist after the program was quit launched again. I spend so much of my tine in PowerMail, and it feels almost like starting all over from a blank slate when all my working windows are lost. Indeed, I often forget to do something that I had in process. DaveN
auto-move msg after reading
Hi All, Is there a way to auto-move a message into the Read Mail folder after reading it? As I am trying to sell a whole company on PowerMail, this question has come up several times. These folks used to use Claris Emailer, and moved the TBird, which I am trying to move them from, partly due to the way attachments are handled. The one person that is trying out PowerMail also wants to print html messages, including the short message header - Sadly, all I could do for her was to set her PM prefs to not favor the html version if any, as the non-html version prints as expected. But I don't want to bring that up again. Best, DaveN
Re: OS 10.4.9, PowerMail 5.5.3 - still can't print HTML email
Printing a html message via a web browser still doesn't include the message header info, such as From, To, Date, Subject. I wish it did. I wish it would just print like any other Mac application that prints what you see. All kidding aside, is this a difficult thing to fix? The name of this application is POWERMAIL. So we expect enough power to print, print preview, and printing the short message headers. Regardless of what kind of futuristic applications people use to compose the email we receive. DaveN in reply to ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Winston Weinmann's message of 2:20 PM, 4/18/07 Printing via a web browser is still a work-around. Printing via the web browser is what I normally do, but sometimes I either forget, or HTML mail looks enough like text mail that I don't realize I need to do this. I also get caught with not having clicked into the email text box, so get a lot of blank pages with a header printed. This is not a minor defect. Yes, I wish everyone still used text email, but that's not the reality. Probably 98% of the email I get is HTML. I don't have any other program on my Mac which cannot print properly.* This needs to be fixed.
Re: Mail Accounts
So how DO you unlock that petrol cap??? :-) Dave in reply to ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Shark Attack Design's message of 12:39 AM, 4/12/07 We've all been there Chris; if it's any consolation, I just bought a new (ish) car and, the first time I came to put fuel in it, I spent 15 minutes trying to work out how to unlock the petrol cap. I even had to call the dealer. Rick
Re: locking PowerMail on download
Question for Jérôme; Would it be just as helpful if one were to use webmail to Redirect the bad message to you? DN in reply to ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), PowerMail Engineering's message of 2:13 AM, 4/3/07 Alan Harper wrote: I have not isolated the email in question--it will take some time fiddling with the web-interface and I haven't had time to do so. What I do right now is go to the web interface at my ISP and delete all the spam in my inbox and then it works again. We would be very interested to get such a message, in order to reproduce and fix the problem. If you can't isolate the specific message causing the problem, maybe you can create a temporary account in another mail client (Apple Mail for example) then retrieve the messages there (make sure that this other mail client does not delete the message from the server, to avoid missing some messages in PowerMail); then if you send me the Apple Mail mailbox I can check if it contains a message that can cause problems in PowerMail. Jérôme - CTM Engineering
Re: Printing email Problem fix (+ Req for CTM to really fix)
in reply to ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Matthias Schmidt's message of 10:09 PM, 3/30/07 Am/On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:54:13 -0700 schrieb/wrote Dave N: PROBLEM: selecting Print... from the file menu (or command p) results in NO Dialog box. (as IF Print one was selected- but it's not). But it does print to the currently selected printer. Header info (to/from/subject) was missing. Only message printed. This is on plain text messages. FIX: using PM toolbar menu icon to click hold until Print... drops down select that. Now you get a dialog box a change to make a pdf, or choose printers, or choose how many copies, etc. :-) PowerMail 5.3.3 Mac OSX 10.4.x (non intel) Just installed last week. why don't you install 5.5.3 that fixed this at least for me All the best Matthias - Oh sorry, I made a typo error. I do have PowerMail 5.5.3. DaveN
Re: New Mac Finally
I moved from OSX 10.3.9 G4/466 (upgraded to 1000mhz) to new 10.4.8 intel iMac last month and did it via the migration assistant. It went really great! I was really amazed! Tip: if you have multiple hard drives or volumes, only run the migration assistant on your main (previous) boot volume. Tip #2: if migration speed is an issue; it's my personal finding that putting your hard drive into an external firewire enclosure results in a WAY faster copy operation (almost 2x) than direct from old Mac in Target mode. For most people however, the time gained is offset by the time spent pulling the hd. After I did the migration, I deleted (from the new iMac) some old apps data no longer needed. But ALL my apps were ready to use right away, saving me a few days of reinstalls. I only had to deal with some tweaky System Prefs that I had added which were not compatible with the new Mac. Don't fear the Migration Assistant. It's pretty good if you let it do it's thing without interference. Best, Dave N in reply to ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), cheshirekat's message of 6:40 PM, 3/14/07 I'm getting a new Mac Pro. Apple shipped it today. Considering that I am using PowerMail 5.2.3, should I upgrade it to the current version on my PowerBook so my files are compatible with the Mac Pro? I haven't kept up with the upgrades because I didn't want anything to break before the new Mac arrives. I don't plan to use the Migration Assistant, so which files should I move to the new computer?
Re: curly quotes become 1, 2, 3
I have been using an applescript that changes the incoming messages to whatever is on the clipboard. It isn't perfect, but it works. To use it, copy something to the clipboard first, then run this script from the PowerMail script menu to replace the entire text email message with the clipboard contents. Adapted from a 1999 Claris Emailer script. It's only 8k, and anyone interested can download it here: http://sbamug.com/drdave/powermail/ReplaceMsgText.zip Hopefully, this will provide an example of how to edit an incoming email via applescript. Hope this helps. Best, Dave Nathanson Mac Medix PS: Glad to see the list appears to be working again. in reply to ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Mikael Byström's message of 12:50 PM, 2/28/07 Dave N sa såhär: Today I1m getting really annoyed at seeing 1 instead of apostrophes. CTM, PLEASE fix this for us! You do love us more than Microsoft does, ... don1t you? I wrote a script trying to solve this problem, which stumbled on the fact that the message source is read only. If it was changeable, the problem could be fixed with an applescript. Done completely by CTM would be better though.
Re: curly quotes become 1, 2, 3
Today I1m getting really annoyed at seeing 1 instead of apostrophes. CTM, PLEASE fix this for us! You do love us more than Microsoft does, ... don1t you? (you DO, right??) Best, Dave N in reply to ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Dave N's message of 12:05 PM, 2/8/07 Without getting into a tis/taint argument about WHO should fix the problem, and even though we all hope that CTMDEV cares more about PowerMail users than Microsoft does. How about a toolbar button that does a find/replace to fix these? For instances of *1* to detect a 1 in place of a single quote, replace with *'*. And so forth. So a word like don1t would be corrected to be don't. If it's really true that only humans can detect these poorly encoded messages, then let the humans push the button to replace the 1,2, or 3 with ' and . Part of the problem is that according to the Rest of the World, my email program of choice is lame because it can1t properly display messages that 2everybody else3 can. Actually, I would LOVE to have a find/replace feature in PowerMail. I live in PowerMail a lot more than any other word processor, and yet I find myself copy/pasting entire messages into TextWrangler for simple things, like find/replace a certain expression or word. Then select all/ copy/paste back to PowerMail. DaveN in reply to ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), PowerMail Engineering's message of 12:12 AM, 2/8/07 Dave N wrote: It also happens with emails sent from the newest version of MS Entourage 2004 for Mac. Does that count as a different email client? Is there a setting I can make in PowerMail that will deal with this well? Other email programs seem to deal with it ok. These messages are badly encoded. Microsoft should fix this problem. Some other email programs display these messages correctly, either because they display the HTML part (which do not have this problem), or because they have hard-coded the fact that entourage messages are badly encoded. But if Microsoft fixes the problem, good Entourage messages will now look as if they were badly encoded... Jérôme - PowerMail Engineering
AOL ok?
Is anybody here using PowerMail for their AOL mail? Does it work well for you? Would you say it is as good as the old AOL email software? (no snickers, please) I've dabbled in using PowerMail for AOL and it does seem to work for what little amount I have used it. But I would like to hear from people really using PowerMail for AOL, or if you used to and gave up on it, and why. Thanks! Dave N
Re: Notifications (again)
I sure would like some help when a connecting isn't working! A log file, of any kind would be really useful at times! Best, Dave N in reply to ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Tom Dillon's message of 10:54 AM, 2/23/07 Any kind of logging would be nice. Even if the errors appeared in the form of emails in an Error folder.
Re: Old complaint about subject line behaviour
In addition, I am often annoyed that the spell checker doesn't work in the subject line. It is very important that the subject line be correct! CTM; PLEASE let the spellchecker work in the subject line! Best, Dave N in reply to ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Per Åström's message of 4:16 AM, 2/16/07 I believe I've already mentioned this a while ago: in the subject line, when youve written something and want mark it you cant use alt+shift+arrows:left/right) to jump one word at a time, as the normal OSX behaviour. Alt+arrow jumps one word per click, but not when using shift to mark the text. I use this method daily, in texts everywhere. /per å
Re: Printing HTML email
I can print HTML emails. I don't that that often, so I don't have a complete report on printing html emails. However, today I was viewing a html email (no graphics, it was a purchase receipt) and when I pressed apple-p on my keyboard, it printed without giving me the print dialog box, so I couldn't even chose which printer to send it to, nor could I do a Print Preview. Since the laser printer was cold, it didn't appear to do anything at all, so I waited a few seconds, and assumed that the my print command had not worked. So I pulled down the File Menu to Print, and then 2 copies of this email came out of the laser printer. Again, no print dialog box. I am sure that I did NOT ask for a Print One. Is this as expected? Does PowerMail intentionally not offer a print dialog box when printing html emails? It doesn't seem right nor helpful. Best, Dave Nathanson Mac Medix in reply to ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Winston Weinmann's message of 10: 32 AM, 2/12/07 When I print HTML email from PowerMail I get a blank page with a short header and footer. I can print text email fine, and I can print HTML email when I open it in a web browser. (Mac OS 10.3.9) Why can't PowerMail print HTML email? - Winston
Re: Printing HTML email
I have PowerMail version 5.5.3 build 4480 English (PPC) Mac OS version: 10.3.9 And when I print a html mail it does NOT give me a print dialog box. Best, Dave Nathanson Mac Medix in reply to ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Matthias Schmidt's message of 10:55 AM, 2/16/07 Am/On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:40:26 -0800 schrieb/wrote Dave N: I can print HTML emails. I don't that that often, so I don't have a complete report on printing html emails. However, today I was viewing a html email (no graphics, it was a purchase receipt) and when I pressed apple-p on my keyboard, it printed without giving me the print dialog box, so I couldn't even chose which printer to send it to, nor could I do a Print Preview. Since the laser printer was cold, it didn't appear to do anything at all, so I waited a few seconds, and assumed that the my print command had not worked. So I pulled down the File Menu to Print, and then 2 copies of this email came out of the laser printer. Again, no print dialog box. I am sure that I did NOT ask for a Print One. Is this as expected? Does PowerMail intentionally not offer a print dialog box when printing html emails? It doesn't seem right nor helpful. I thought that was a bug in the last beta, which should be fixed now it works as expected with PM 5.5.3 under 10.4.8 in the header I can see you use the same version, which OS are you using? All the best Matthias
Re: curly quotes become 1, 2, 3
Without getting into a tis/taint argument about WHO should fix the problem, and even though we all hope that CTMDEV cares more about PowerMail users than Microsoft does. How about a toolbar button that does a find/replace to fix these? For instances of *1* to detect a 1 in place of a single quote, replace with *'*. And so forth. So a word like don1t would be corrected to be don't. If it's really true that only humans can detect these poorly encoded messages, then let the humans push the button to replace the 1,2, or 3 with ' and . Part of the problem is that according to the Rest of the World, my email program of choice is lame because it can1t properly display messages that 2everybody else3 can. Actually, I would LOVE to have a find/replace feature in PowerMail. I live in PowerMail a lot more than any other word processor, and yet I find myself copy/pasting entire messages into TextWrangler for simple things, like find/replace a certain expression or word. Then select all/ copy/paste back to PowerMail. DaveN in reply to ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), PowerMail Engineering's message of 12:12 AM, 2/8/07 Dave N wrote: It also happens with emails sent from the newest version of MS Entourage 2004 for Mac. Does that count as a different email client? Is there a setting I can make in PowerMail that will deal with this well? Other email programs seem to deal with it ok. These messages are badly encoded. Microsoft should fix this problem. Some other email programs display these messages correctly, either because they display the HTML part (which do not have this problem), or because they have hard-coded the fact that entourage messages are badly encoded. But if Microsoft fixes the problem, good Entourage messages will now look as if they were badly encoded... Jérôme - PowerMail Engineering
curly quotes become 1, 2, 3
Hi, I get a lot of emails that include numbers instead of punctuation. Like this: I1ve got an office of users ready for a lynching - mine as a result of issues they are experiencing with Word. I1ve done a fair amount of research I can see that where I would expect single quote ', I see a 1. Sometimes it is a 2, or 3 for similar punctuation marks, like double quotes. Usually these senders are using a MS mail program, and I think they are using curly quotes. What can a PowerMail user do so their emails will look correct when received? I'm in USA, and my PowerMail prefs are set to: Languge family: US/Western Europe Use Character set: ISO-8859-1 (Latin1, Western Europe) TIA, DaveN
Re: curly quotes become 1, 2, 3
It also happens with emails sent from the newest version of MS Entourage 2004 for Mac. Does that count as a different email client? Is there a setting I can make in PowerMail that will deal with this well? Other email programs seem to deal with it ok. D Nathanson in reply to ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Alan Harper's message of 10:26 AM, 2/7/07 I think that this is an Outlook Express Bug. If I remember correctly, Outlook Express says that it is using one character encoding and actually uses a different one. Look at the headers to see if all are from the same mail client, then do a google search. But I think the answer is, if you are going to lynch someone, perhaps you should find a microsoft engineer. A On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 09:14:38 -0800 Dave N said: Hi, I get a lot of emails that include numbers instead of punctuation. Like this: I1ve got an office of users ready for a lynching - mine as a result of issues they are experiencing with Word. I1ve done a fair amount of research I can see that where I would expect single quote ', I see a 1. Sometimes it is a 2, or 3 for similar punctuation marks, like double quotes. Usually these senders are using a MS mail program, and I think they are using curly quotes. What can a PowerMail user do so their emails will look correct when received? I'm in USA, and my PowerMail prefs are set to: Languge family: US/Western Europe Use Character set: ISO-8859-1 (Latin1, Western Europe) TIA, DaveN
No replies from CTM sales dept (knock, knock)
How long does it usually take to get a reply from the sales dept at CTM Development? Is more than a week usual? Two weeks? On July 1st I asked for a price on a 5 pack of Powermails with Spam sieve (minus 1 SpamSieve that I already own). I used the web form at: http://www.ctmdev.com/contact/index.html but have still not received a reply. Is this normal? Perhaps they did not receive my message? Is CTM closed for vacation? On 7/7/04 I then tried sending it as email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], instead of using the web form. In the meantime, I have been unable to use PowerMail in Demo mode, as I get over 200 emails daily. That 200 msg limit is so sharply restrictive that I am unable to really try out the program while waiting for a reply to purchase it from their sales dept. It seems that a better plan for the demo software would be unlimited use for a few weeks, then impose a message limit. But to limit it to only 200 messages from day 1 is just user unfriendly. Especially for a product that calls itself PowerMail. I had to dump it at least once a day and managed to lose some emails in the process. An altogether unpleasant experience from what should have been a joy to try out. If it weren't for the strong user feedback I've heard, I wouldn't be interested in buying Powermail. However, I have heard good things, here elsewhere. But moving forward to more positive topics... How does one contact the sales dept at CTM to make a purchase? I seem to have been unsuccessful so far. Dave
