Re: Database problems
I was getting the same problem with mine. I have a G4 Power PC that has an upgraded processor. I did this so i could run Leopard. When i got 6.0.6b1 in the mail i made a copy of the program i was getting the errors with and saved a copy of the data base. I then loaded the 6.0.6b1 and tried it on the original daa base and i did not get the errors again. seems what inspired me was that this upgrade was supposed to help with problems like this. just a thought Gerry I got a series of errors, one for each database component that needed rebuilding. In each case, the error codes were the same: Class-DB what=100 err=130 I have a similar issue as Don had, but worse. I woke up to find Powermail locked up. It would not quit and I needed to do a force quit. Upon trying to re-open, Powermail wants to rebuild sort indices and then when it is done it exits with the same error as above. None of the options in PowerMail First Aid help, including low level rebuild with the latest beta. I now have a corrupt message database that Powermail can not open. Does anyone have any suggestions? I have tried all the usual suspects, verified/repaired the disk itself, PowerMail First Aid by holding down command option on startup, etc, to no avail. I have a 4 day old backup, but would like to recover that mail... I have a copy of Powermail Salvage from a similar situation a couple years ago, but when I launch Powermail Salvage on my Intel Macbook or Mac Mini it just does the spinning beach ball... Does Powermail Salvage even work on Intel Macs? On Powermail 6 message databases? Any options for me to get my mail back? Thanks in advance for any help. -- The faster the computer The more impatient the user
Re: emailing photos from iPhoto 09
I did not realize this would still happen. Just checked my iphoto and i will have to fix it too. Here is part of an Email i received in 2006 that gives a clue. I will have to look as well. Hope it helps. Also i noticed i just got your message and it is 19 days old shows March 9th but i will send what info i have anyways. Gerry -- The faster the computer The more impatient the user Years ago, I did something to iPhoto that enabled it to recognize PowerMail and let me email photos from within iPhoto (well, it would open a new mail form in PM, with the photos already attached). I've now upgraded to iPhoto 09 and I can no longer do this and I can't remember what the hell I did to make it work in the first place. Does anyone know? TIA- Jo Dorais Does killing time damage eternity?
Re: emailing photos from iPhoto 09
Sorry about that. I can only say Time marches on but my mind is not keeping up. This was some info from a Email in 2006. However i just tried it and it did not work for me Gerry correction, it's not a plugin but a little application that modifies the default setting and allows to send out with powermail. sorry about that. ---marlyse former message(s) quotes: - there used to be a plugin which you could download from versiontracker. do not know if still works with the latest version of iphoto and powermail but do a search at www.versiontracker.com for powermail and you will find it. ---marlyse former message(s) quotes: - -- The faster the computer The more impatient the user I did not realize this would still happen. Just checked my iphoto and i will have to fix it too. Here is part of an Email i received in 2006 that gives a clue. I will have to look as well. Hope it helps. Also i noticed i just got your message and it is 19 days old shows March 9th but i will send what info i have anyways. Gerry -- The faster the computer The more impatient the user Years ago, I did something to iPhoto that enabled it to recognize PowerMail and let me email photos from within iPhoto (well, it would open a new mail form in PM, with the photos already attached). I've now upgraded to iPhoto 09 and I can no longer do this and I can't remember what the hell I did to make it work in the first place. Does anyone know? TIA- Jo Dorais Does killing time damage eternity?
Re: PM Key still won't register 6.0
I had the same problem December 3rd. The thing i noticed was that the key they sent the name did not match the name of the key in the attachment for the actual key. I had to wait a couple days believe there was a weekend involved. However they did send me a replacement key. This time the name in the letter matched the attachment they sent for the key. Gerry -- The faster the computer The more impatient the user Hi, You're way ahead of meI also paid for the upgrade - at least I think I did - but I have not been sent a key. I still love PowerMail, but sometimes the quirky support is a little too quirky. Meanwhile, have you tried dragging the PM key icon on to the PowerMail application icon? That's how it used to work. Jim I paid for upgrade to 6.0 over two and a half weeks ago, was sent a key, it didn't work. i've double-clicked, dragged, etc. the PM Key icon. PM just wants to make an attachment out of it. sometime is opens up Terminal. sometimes i can open as a text message and see the code, but can't do anything with it. the icon appears as a generic executable file by default. i've never seen this type of registration, so don't know what else to do. I emailed CTM the same day. no response. -- Jim Pistrang JP Computer Resources Certified Member, Apple Consultants Network 413-256-4569 http://www.jpcr.com
Re: Attachment in code
When he try to open the attachment tell him to hold down the Option key. I sometimes have that problem when i download jpegs. Don;t know why it happens but that was a real oldie cure in the past. -- The faster the computer The more impatient the user Can someone help me with this. Sent a .jpg attachment to a Mac user and was told it was not received as an attachment but as code inside the email. I think code means a lot of weird symbols and letters. The receiver is using Mail.app. I forwarded the same email to myself and received it with the attachment intact. So what can be done about this ? What could cause this to happen ? Can it be fixed ? Any help much appreciated. Irene
Re: browser setting question
The way i have done it in the past is to start up Apples Safari and in the preferences there is a setting for default browser. Gerry -- The faster the computer The more impatient the user I used PM 5.6.4 on a MacBook Pro running Leopard 10.5.2. Camino is currently my default browser. Things were fine until I had a problem with my laptop and ended up erasing the drive and restoring everything from a back-up clone. Now, even though Camino is my default browser (and is automatically opened and used at all other times), when a URL is sent as an attachment and I choose the attachment from within PM, it tends to open the web site using an ancient copy of Explorer that I have among my applications. I would appreciate any guidance about how I can adjust the settings so that PM always uses Camino (or whatever I choose as my computer's default browser). Thanks for your help. Ken
invisible tray
I was running PM 5.6 build 4497 The last few days i had problems with messages not wanting to send and when i looked into the Out Tray they would show as waiting. I was not having any trouble receiving messages. Today when i looked into my Out Tray it was completely blank. The information at the bottom said there were 904 messages with zero displayed. I trashed user/Library/preferences/com.ctmdev.Powermail.plist ,then Powermail prefs in the same folder. I also trashed the User Prefs in my Powermail files folder. I ran disk first aid (all 5 options) but nothing seems to resolve this problem. Finally for no particular reason i exported the Out Tray as a Powermail exchange file. I clicked inside the empty Out Tray and got a blue border that it was sort of selected. I then went to the Edit menu and did a select all then did the Export function. The file that was exported was also invisible, i could not see the contents when i double clicked on it and it opened up but it indicated that all my messages were there. . I tried updating Power mail as i noticed there was 5.6.1 build 4499. This did not resolve my problem with being able to see the messages in the Out Tray. Finally i did an import of the power mail exchange file and it appeared as Out Tray 2 and i can see all 904 files in this new folder. I tried doing a search for Out Tray hoping i could find something perhaps wrong with the permissions or something, but i guess it is embedded somewhere and not readily accessible. Has any one had this problem. I just have to figure out how to get rid of Out Tray or it's invisible contents and replace it with Out Tray 2 or its contents. Gerry -- The faster the computer The more impatient the user
further Invisible Tray
Regarding the earlier message i sent on the problem with the invisible Out Tray This message does not appear in the Out Tray and is invisible as are the others. However it is there as the count has increased by one. Gerry -- The faster the computer The more impatient the user
further invisible Out Tray
I tried one more thing as a last resort. I made the message database.old my current data base and it shows the same problem. Gerry -- The faster the computer The more impatient the user
Re: picture problem
On Wednesday, April 27, 2005, Gerald F. Carroll sent forth: I have a friend with a MAC that has tried to send me pictures while in iphoto. Power mail doesn't seem to like them. here is what i get in the body of the message IMG_8567.JPG There is nothing at the bottom to indicate there is a message attached. I got him to send a copy to my .mac account and the pictures come through. Has anyone seen this problem before. Gerry Are you both using PM or just one of you? If so which one? I use PM to send photos culled from iPhoto all the time without incident. In fact, I use iPhoto's own email link to do it. Which version of PM, iPhoto does your friend use (assuming he uses PM)? -- Tim Lapin [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am the only one using power mail as my main Email program. He uses Apple's Mail program as his Email program. I had him redirect this particular piece of mail to my .mac account which is the only time i use Apple's mail program. use Apple's mail program. I reserve MAIL for MAC things only. But i much prefer Power mail as my main Email program. Gerry -- The faster the computer The more impatient the user.
picture problem
I have a friend with a MAC that has tried to send me pictures while in iphoto. Power mail doesn't seem to like them. here is what i get in the body of the message IMG_8567.JPG IMG_8569.JPG There is nothing at the bottom to indicate there is a message attached. I got him to send a copy to my .mac account and the pictures come through. Has anyone seen this problem before. Gerry -- The faster the computer The more impatient the user.
Re: [ANN] PowerMail 5.2b1 now available
I tried this latest version 5.2b1 and it seems to have a problem. I tried it twice and both times gave identical problems. I have a MAC G4 667Mhz with 1Gb memory. I am running OSX 10.2.8 When i first run the new version it asks for the MAIL folder so i show it where it is. Next it brings up Powermail showing my mailboxes. Down in the right hand bottom corner it is saying it is indexing my mail. I only have about 4700 pieces of mail. Then when it finishes and i look at the mail boxes i find in all my mail boxes that March/2005 is-missing from all mail boxes. I did not see any evidence of a conversion other than the indexing. I then quit Powermail and started it holding down the ommand/Option key combo. I get the menu and i check all five of the first boxes. When it starts up it says it is doing a low level operation. I have waited up to an hour and nothing else ever happens. Powermail never returns. When i did a force quit to see what was running, powermail is not showing anything. I then tried starting powermail again but it says it failed unexpectedly. I have not lost anything as i have things backed up. I have gone back to ver 5.1 Gerry Dear PowerMail list members, We are pleased to announce the availability of PowerMail 5.2 beta 1. This private release, containing 4 key features, 9 enhancements and 27 fixes, is currently only intended for members of the PowerMail-discuss and PowerMail-testing lists (PowerMail 5.2 final will be a free update for PowerMail 5 owners) and is available from: http://powermail.simplenet.com/pm5.2b1.dmg Note: Please make a backup of your existing PowerMail database before using 5.2, as the file format has changed and will NOT be openable with 5.1 after conversion. Although the features below have been tested for six weeks both at CTM and within Apple Computer, proceed with caution as with any beta software. Release notes are included below. Kindly report your findings back to the PowerMail-testing mailing list exclusively; to be able to post, first: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Best regards, the PowerMail team[EMAIL PROTECTED] CTM Development http://www.ctmdev.com --- POWERMAIL 5.2b1 RELEASE NOTES - APRIL 3rd, 2005 -- Features * PowerMail now supports the searching of its database using SpotLight (requires Mac OS X 10.4 build 8A25 or later) in addition to its built-in, enhanced FoxTrot search engine: o If you double-click on a found item in Spotlight, it will not just open it as an orphaned document window in PowerMail but actually open the corresponding message in the database itself. o For user who have one or more inactive (archive) databases, open them with PowerMail 5.2 and reindex them; you will see that all of your current and archived mail can be searched in one go using Spotlight, whether or not the message is contained in your current mail database. * Support for secure transport on SMTP, POP3 and IMAP4 using the StartTLS command (connection on the same port) in addition to specific SSL port connections o For STMP, this can now be configured both on a per-account basis as well as for all accounts in the Mail Schedulings?Ķ: Location setup pane * Added the ability to export tabulated text in Unicode UTF-8 format, i.e. for exporting international text to recent vversions of FileMaker Pro * The Spam filtering architecture adds integration with Intego Personal Antispam Improvements and tweaks * Times are now displayed relatively to the current time zone, but using the daylight saving time in effect at that time. This means that a message sent at 12:00 when Daylight Savings Time (DST) was not active will continue to be displayed as sent at 12:00 when you look at it days or months later when DST is active; if you however travel and change time zones, the message will no longer appear as sent at 12:00 * Upon marking a spam message as good, its attachments are nowmoved out of the trash. * When creating multiple mail filters with a spam rating condition, you can now adjust a slider to have different actions for messages with different spam levels. Note that when using SpamSieve, it is highly recommended that you treat messages with a spam rating greater than or equal to 50 as spam, and the other as good, and that you use the mark as good/mark as spam commands when SpamSieve makes mistakes, so it can learn from them. Additionally, note that having multiple filters with a spam rating condition can make the spam filter assistant to not behave as expected, that's why a warning dialog will be displayed in such cases * When evaluating the
just testing [u]
Just testing. I have not received any mail from this group since the 13th of Feb. Gerry -- The faster the computer The more impatient the user.
Re: Msg crashes PM (was: powermail-discuss Digest #1724 - 02/02/04)
This is something that has worked for me in the past. What i do is a good message below it i select this messgae. Then using the shift key i select the bad message which has both messages selected so neither one is displayed. Then i move them both to the trash. Then i go in and get the good message back. By having the used a message below the bad message PM won't try to display the bad message. then i empty the trash without ever trying to do anything with the bad message. It's sort of convuluted but it seems to work for me. gerry Bill Stecher / 04.6.24 / 9:14PM wrote: Help! I have an email which crashes the program when I click on it. How do I get rid of it?? Since you get instant crash, mine might be different from yours, but I have been fighting with this for two weeks now. One message gives me memory error when clicked. I never turn HTML option. This message is 1 year old. I can't delete it. If I try to delete it, PM vm jumps into 2.5GB and gives me memory error. PMSalvage app didn't work out for me. I am totally out of option right now. -- - Hiro [PROTECTED] [PROTECTED] [PROTECTED] -- The faster the computer The more impatient the user.
Re: PM 5 icons and some observations
The HAND on mine works no matter where i grab the border with it. The icons will take remembering again, i only wish they were a little darker. They seem sort of washed out. When you are composing a letter they are much better. Gerry In three pane mode... There are two funny wee arrow things for resizing the window ratios. They are horid. I keep trying to clean them off my screen. I find the one between the folder list and my message pane a real pain. And anyway, when I mouse over it my mouse becomes a hand. I would expect it to become a double arrow -|- as the only way to move the borders in up/down or left/right. You can't 'grab' the border and move it _anywhere_. The arrows on the border aren't really required - are they. I must say I'm not that impressed by the new icons in the toolbars. Take for example the Mark as Spam. Is that a fly? What has a fly got to do with spam? And Mark as Good doesn't follow the theme (or vis versa). I'm not sure Reply, Forward or Redirect are clear either. I'll probably turn off the icons - just like I did in PM 4. I was actually expecting more from PM 5. So far I haven't found anything really different from PM 4. I already have SpamSieve and that worked seamlessly once set up. I haven't found that wow that I felt when FoxTrot searching was introduced. I guess I'm committed now and I will pay for the upgrade but I don't think its good value. It doesn't feel like a full version upgrade to me so far. -- david.gordon -- The faster the computer The more impatient the user.
Re: What's the scoop on CTM's website?
On 1/16/04, Zeph declared: Hola... A friend of mine tried PM, and likes it. Now he wants to buy it, but can't get connected to ctmdev.com. Seems this was discussed a few weeks ago -- is there any resolution? How should my friend go about purchasing the software? Your guess is as good as mine. For two weeks I couldn't even receive any email from this PowerMail Discussions list server. Did this happen to anybody else, and does anybody know why? ---Jay I just tried it a few minutes ago and got through ok. I was getting another copy as i am recovering from a disk crash. had no trouble with the site. I went ther through the help menu. Gerry -- The faster the computer The more impatient the user.
Re: Double text
I have had the same thing, but not from Apple Mail. It's from a friend that bought a Mac about a year ago. not too sure what email program he is using. But it is just from him and happens fairly often. Have been trying to figure out whether it's something he's doing. Now that i hear it's happened to someone else i will have to check on his Email program. gerry Yes, take a look at the sender. It is probably Apple Mail. From Apple Mail to Powermail, there is an issue about double text appearing if the setting is not plain text in the Apple Mail client that produced the email. CTM is aware of this issue. Happy New Year! Midi Sherman caused electrons to hula in cyberspace with: Lately I am getting double text in the message body on some (not all) message): the ENTIRE body text is repeated a second time at the end of the message. Has anyone else seen this? Any ideas what might be doing this? -- Sherman -- The faster the computer The more impatient the user.
Re: [ANN] PowerMail 4.2.1 beta 6 now available
The first time i tried to download this (using Omniweb) i only got about 1/3 of the file. Didn't notice until stuffit tried to open it. The second time i tried i got the whole file and everything went perfect from there. i am on high speed cable that comes in with my television. Gerry Op zondag, 28 september 2003 schreef PowerMail info: Greetings, We are hereby pleased to announce the availability of PowerMail 4.2.1 beta 6, which can be directly downloaded from: = http://www.powermailtech.com/pm4.2.1b6.sit = /snip I tried to download the file trough a dial up connection several times now, but the download stops after some 350 kB. So after 5 attempts, using various clients (Safari, Chimera /oops.. Camino, Mozilla) I still cannot get this version. Anyone else with the same problem here? Karel -- The faster the computer The more impatient the user.
Re: Unread message errors
I have never had the problem with the count going negative. It's been some time since i had a message hang up Power Mail. However when it did i used my old mail application on netscape 4.7 to get rid of the offending mail. That was the only way i found some relief. gerry Discussion of this problem seems to have slowed to a trickle. Does that mean people have found a workaround, or does it mean that everyone has learned to live with it? I'm finding it more and more annoying. Several times a day PM hits a message (usually from a Yahoo egroup) which brings up a flashing error dialog [Class=DB what=2 when=6 err=147]. Opening the offending message (always blank) results in the minus unread message count. The really irritating thing is that PM will continue to try to download the same message at each pass, and I sometimes return to my computer to find the error flashing and a dozen or more copies of the same dud message. The only solution is to go into my POP server with a web browser, delete the message at source, then run the DB verification check with PM. The web browser, btw, has no trouble displaying the content of the message. - Jud - -- The faster the computer The more impatient the user.
Re: Powermail vs. Thunderbird
This is strange indeed. I cannot remember the last time Powermail failed on me. I won't say it hasn't, but never where it doesn't start up right again. I like powermail because i hate HTML with all it's dancing garbage. I do not find an irregularity in the updates, Skins don't are not terribly important to me. They would be nice but i consider them a frilly dilly. I have three accounts on my powermail. Two are pop accountes and the last is my .mac account. I use powermail as a backup for this account and have it set not to delete the mail so i can keep my mail a little more separated. Although Powermail will not handle all the HTML mail i get, the ones with the genuine HTML format display ok in HTML when i want them to. There is some HTML mail i get that doesn't seem to have the structure starting with HEAD etc that apparently is the format for HTML that you normally see. Powermail wont display these but it's no great loss. Also i probably don't use the many features that can be had in mail applications and my data base may not be humungous, Powermail still is my main Emailer. As for a built in spam filter i use Spamfire. It has its drawbacks, but the extra work of running it first doesn't really bother me at all. I see a lot of messages on this discussion group with problems during upgrades, I have yet to have an upgrade go bad on me or crunch up my mail. Maybe i'm lucky, but i cannot knock results and i have to go with what works best for me. With all the means and extremes i see reading this support list i still prefer Powermail. Gerry Okay, so I've been a *paid* user of Powermail 4 for I don't know, better then 6 months. And I've been fairly happy. However Thunderbird has been coming on strong, and I've installed it on a ton of friends computers, and they've been totally thrilled. So here it is, I hate to give up on something I've paid good money into, but I see holding on to something just because I paid for it as a greater evil (two wrongs and all that). So here's where I'm at: Powermail Pros: I paid for it. It's better then Mail It's more Stable then Mail. I have all my email/accounts/etc in it. I have all my rules setup in it. Search engine (Foxtrot) works right. Pretty stable on my 1Ghz TiBook Powermail Cons: I paid for it No built in spam filter IMAP implementation is lacking. Crashes on my MDD Dual 1.25Ghz at least once a day. Interface isn't as slick as Thunderbird Tunderbird Pros: Free Nice, Customizable Interface Open Source Spam Filter Regular Updates Stable (hasn't crashed yet) Palm Support coming News Thunderbird Cons: Unknown Future/Not Fully developed Open Source No AppleScript (and unlikely in at least the near future) Import is lacking A little more bloat So talk me out of moving to Thunderbird. -Austin P.S. don't remind me of what version I'm running right now, I'm aware, it's been the most stable for whatever reason on this machine. -- The faster the computer The more impatient the user.
Re: invisible headers/unselectable text
I just switched and had the same problem. I had kept the previous version data base. Luckily i used the switch user enviroments and all my old mail and settings reappeared and work ok. This is the first time i had to do anything extra to get the newest version going. Gerry At Fri, 5 Sep 2003 19:41:20 +0200 Karel Gillissen wrote: It looks like you are dealing with HTML-messages here. Thanks Karel, that was the problem - now fixed. Now I have another! I've downloaded the new 4.2 final. Running it (system 10.2.6) creates a folder 'Powermail Files' in my 'Mail' folder. There is already a 'Powermail Files4.2b' folder in which all the scripts, address data old mail are stored. The question is can I simply replace the new 'Powermail Files' folder with the old 'Powermail Files4.2b' folder or is there stuff in the new folder that has been changed from the old beta should be used in preference to the versions left from 4.2b8? Thanks David Hoffman -- __ David Hoffman Photo Library http://www.hoffmanphotos.com phone +44 (0)20 8981 5041 fax +44 (0)20 8980 2041 -- The faster the computer The more impatient the user.
RE 4.2B6 problems
I don't know whether i have just been luck or what? I havent had any serious problems with Power Mail and i am very surprised considering all the reports i see on the discussion group. I just went from version 4.2B1 to 4.2B6. In 4.2B1 i could not search from the icon in the tool bar. However from the find in the menu i had no problems at all. I also don't have any trouble accessing my accounts either. In 4.2B6 i can search from the Tool Bar icon or the find in the menu. I never noticed before but i like the way it highlites the word your searching for in yellow (on my computer). I am running a G4 with 1GB memory (667 gh) and two 60 GB drives. I am also running Jaguar 10.2.6. I cannot figure out what it is that's being done right with all the problems i see around me? Gerry -- The faster the computer The more impatient the user.
Re(3): new sounds?
If you still have your OS9 boot disk use that temporarily. I had my OS9 disk crash so for a month i had to run on OSX only. I used my OS9 boot disk a couple of times to fix things that OSX wouldn't let me touch. Not a neat and tidy way but it worked. Also thanks for the info on Tri-edre. I have been contemplating buying it as well and your message just made the decision for me. Gerry The faster the computer The more impatient the user I don't have 9 installed! Only OSX. Any other way ? On Monday, March 10, 2003 at 7:14 AM, Jonathan Greene wrote: on Mon, 10 Mar 2003 06:09:17 -0600 /Wayne Brissette said: There must be a way to hack this. Anybody know where PM store's it's (very limited choice of) sound files? in a file that is only accessible from Mac OS 9. Startup in Mac OS 9 and modify the sounds suitcase. I do not run Classic or 9 at all - 100% OS X. Any other option? -- I hate it when my foot falls asleep during the day-because then I know it will be up all night. -- Steven Wright -- The faster the computer The more impatient the user.
