Re(2): PM going forward
I am also willing but pay for updates if it helps CTMDev maintain PowerMail. Despite its creaking Carbon foundations it's easily the best mail client available for the Mac. However, I fear Sean is right. CTM is unlikely to rewrite PM for Cocoa at this point, and it would probably hard to justify the effort. With Apple offering Apple Mail for free, and things like Thunderbird also available, there would be a limited audience for the application. It may be much better than Mail or TB, but not enough people would be willing to pay for that benefit, if they find free alternatives acceptable. I am reluctantly using TB for IMAP mail, but prefer to use PM for all my mail if I could. Mark At Wed, 22 Aug 2012 10:48:54 -0400, the quick nimble fingers of Sean McBride wrote: On Aug 17, 2012, at 03:57, Koen Keevel wrote: So what are the future plans from ctmdev? You guys are all dreaming. PowerMail is dead. It's sad but true. It's still a 32 bit Carbon app after years and years now of Apple telling developers they needed to move to Cocoa. Since PowerMail still hasn't made that switch, it's not likely to now. I appreciate that CTM is keeping it on life support, and still use it at work, but a dozen users offering a few pennies isn't going to change anything. I wouldn't be surprised if OS X 10.9 drops support for 32 bit, and then PowerMail won't work. :( Sean
Re(2): 2 GB limit
At Tue, 9 Nov 2010 22:31:50 -0400, the quick nimble fingers of Sean McBride wrote: Thank you John, good to know that I'm not the only one. In case CTM keeps ignoring my question about the limit, I'm afraid that I have to drop PM too. Which email client are you all switching to? I'm not sure which to choose I have not dropped PM, but have switched to using Apple Mail for my IMAP accounts (Gmail etc.). As a result, I am already looking at Jean Michel's suggestion of using FoxTrot. However, for people trying to work around the 2GB limit, being asked to buy another application is not a good answer, IMHO. This has nothing to do with the 2GB limit, but is more to do with the fact that one of the accounts was rarely used, but I wanted all the backlog of messages on my own computer. Mark -- Inter-Lingual (Mark Smith) 1-8-22 Saidaiji-kitamachi Nara, Nara Prefecture 631-0817
More PM 6 Impressions
As other have mentioned, PM 6's QuickLook support for attachments can be very useful. However, this is another feature that fails to work as expected when Japanese is the active input method. (Not sure there is much CTM can do about this though, just pointing out that this is not universally useful.) The Finder-like view for Folders is also nice. It would be even nicer if we would apply label colours to the folder icon itself, rather than just (or instead of) the name. I would prefer it if this genuinely copied the Finder behaviour since I do not use some labels in PM simply because the colour makes the folder name difficult to read. -- Mark Smith: Nara, Japan This message was written while listening to: Learning To Fly by Pink Floyd from Echoes: the best of Pink Floyd
Re: More PM 6 Impressions
At Tue, 2 Dec 2008 12:49:07 +0900, the quick nimble fingers of Matthias Schmidt wrote: As other have mentioned, PM 6's QuickLook support for attachments can be very useful. However, this is another feature that fails to work as expected when Japanese is the active input method. (Not sure there is much CTM can do about this though, just pointing out that this is not universally useful.) do you mean, when you switch keyboard (input) to hiragana that Quick Look doesn't work? I just tried that and it works as expected for me. That is indeed what I meant. It does not work here, with Japanese as the default language. Likewise, pressing the space bar, with Japanese input active, when viewing the list of messages in 3-pane view does not scroll down one batch, but takes you quite close to the bottom of the list. (This has been true of PM 4 and 5 as well.) Mark -- Mac OS X 10.5.5 (2.2 GHz MacBook 2 GB RAM) PM 6b3
Re: PM 6 impressions
At Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:26:20 +0900, the quick nimble fingers of Matthias Schmidt wrote: Growl notices The Growl notifications for new mail are useful, but I find it annoying that they are persistent. They do not fade away as most such notifications do. I think they should only be displayed persistently if there is an error message. (I have audio notifications in PM for most important mail, so the Growl notifications are only really useful for me when I have the sound muted.) That's growl settings, which you can adjust in the system preferences. I also see some issues with growl - it sometimes just hangs, but the notifications do fade out. Do you still have the growl script installed for pm5? If so, try removing that one and see, if it solves the problem No. At least, not that I know of. :-) I have discovered tat a couple of growlRegDict files appear in the Trash, so it looks like PM is having problems registering with Growl properly. (I have sent the two files to CTM, for their reference.) New Mail notifications definitely do not fade away here. greetings from Koyasan - just around the corner up the mountain :-) Indeed. A wonderfully peaceful place, and a great place to spend a few days escaping the heat of a Japanese summer. :-) Mark Smith Nara, Japan. -- History is never a science and rarely an art, and the historian who pretends to the former loses the latter. William Irwin Thompson
PM 6 impressions
I have to agree with some of the earlier comments, that this does not really feel like an update that justifies bumping up the version number to 6. However, that has not stopped me getting the update. No print preview PM does not display a preview of the printout in the Print dialog. Now that it supports HTML mail, this would be useful. Most applications can show a preview, with only some cross-platform applications failing to do so. A preview is especially useful if you are printing out a message hat includes several messages-worth of quoted messages. You can easily check how many pages you need to print out. Growl notices The Growl notifications for new mail are useful, but I find it annoying that they are persistent. They do not fade away as most such notifications do. I think they should only be displayed persistently if there is an error message. (I have audio notifications in PM for most important mail, so the Growl notifications are only really useful for me when I have the sound muted.) -- Mark Smith: Nara, Japan This message was written while listening to: Cocaine [Live] by Eric Clapton from Just One Night
Re: Feature Request: Quick Look support
I have also put in a similar request, direct to CTM, asking for QuickLook support for messages. I imagine being able to use Spotlight to search for a message and press the Space bar to view a preview of the PM message. (We already have Spotlight support, and it finds PM messages well; the question is how easy, or otherwise, it is for CTM to make its messages available to QuickLook.) -- Mark Smith: Nara, Japan This message was written while listening to: Gavotte HWV 491(Handel) by Andrés Segovia from The Segovia Collection (Vol.12) At Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:15:59 +0100, the quick nimble fingers of Marco Piovanelli wrote: Hello, It would be nice if PowerMail allowed me to preview attachments of suitable types (pictures, PDF documents, etc.) using Quick Look. http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/quicklook.html Imagine being able to select an attachment in an incoming message, press the space bar, and have a preview window of the contents pop up, right within PowerMail, without the need to launch external programs like Preview.app. -- marco -- It's not the data universe only, it's human conversation. They want to turn it into a one-way flow that they have entirely monetized. I look at the collective human mind as a kind of ecosystem. They want to clear cut it. They want to go into the rainforest of human thought and mow the thing down.
Re: Anti Aliasing
At Mon, 18 Dec 2006 18:51:37 -0500, A-NO-NE Music wrote: I don't like Anti Aliasing especially it makes difficult to identify complex Kanji. One of the Apple engineers wanted to file a bug on this and asked me to make a report. As the first time in a long while, I turned Anti Aliasing on. Silly question. Where is the Anti Aliasing option? Surprisingly, Tiger has improved on it drastically. Some of the apps I help L10N does look much nicer. But PM is rather terrible. Everything is harder to read. - Text became dim - Unable to identify bold and normal which is a big problem - The infamous orange dots dancing (first time I saw it) Not seeing these problems here. (In particular, bold and normal are distinguishable.) For the list font, I am using the default system font, Lucida Grande. I can't tell which folder is bold. Am I the only one having this problem? I am using Verdana. It displays Japanese titles OK here. The difference between bold and normal is OK for Japanese text, although it is even more obvious for romanized parts of the list, such as date and size. HTH Mark Smith -- Check out what I have been listening to: http://www.last.fm/user/red_orca
Re: Powermail 5.5 and Spam Sieve connection lost
At Sun, 29 Oct 2006 07:24:12 +0200, David Gallanders wrote: For some reason, the connection between PowerMail 5.5 and SpamSieve seems to have failed. I had a similar problem, although SpamSieve was being launched in my case. Although SpamSieve was processing the messages and marking them as spam, it was not moving them to the Mail Trash, as it was supposed to. I found that going through the steps of the Spam assistant... (in Preferences) solved the problem. (I changed a setting, saved, then changed it back again. Depending on what your settings are, you may also need to check the Spam:actions filter.) -- Mark Smith, Higashiosaka, Japan Mark's Grampalogue: http://www.geocities.jp/pakeman1066/grampalog/index.html
Re(3): Powermail 5.5 and Spam Sieve connection lost
At Mon, 30 Oct 2006 07:52:14 +0200, David Gallanders wrote: In reply to Mark S. P. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] who, at 9:17 on I found that going through the steps of the Spam assistant... (in Preferences) solved the problem. (I changed a setting, saved, then changed it back again. Depending on what your settings are, you may also need to check the Spam:actions filter.) Good points. I've done all that - no joy. In that case I would try contacting Michael Tsai (SpamSieve) and PM Tech Support directly. This is obviously not an isolated problem. (I know I did not touch the spam filters or settings, and the beta/fc versions of 5.5 did not have cause any problems for SpamSieve.) BTW, how is the Higashi Dori Shoten Gai these days? Bustling as ever. Still have to dodge the occasional yakuza though. :-) Mark Smith -- Mac OS X 10.4.8 (1.2 GHz iBook G4/768 MB RAM) PM 5.5
Re(2): Kanji (was: Problems with Attachments in 5.5)
At Thu, 26 Oct 2006 22:52:21 +0900, Matthias Schmidt wrote: Mark, do I have to use a special setting for that feature? I don't get that window ABOVE the word for selecting anything. As far as I know, you do not have to do anything, apart from enter text and select the same kanji combination a few times. The suggestions just stat to appear. I get it most frequently in PM, when I send yet another message to regular clients. Kotoeri displays the window with the kanji for their name and the correct greeting, but I cannot select it (damn it). Since I couldn't select the suggestions in PM, I ignored them in Firefox/Camino for while until the missus told me how to select them. (The browsers display them most frequently when I use http://ekitan.com/ or a similar site to check train routes. I get the four kanji combination for the name of our local station after entering the reading for the first half of the name. A great time safer.) It maybe that CTM decide that the function that is overriding the use of the Tab key in this case is more important, and leave things as they are. However, since PM simply enters a tab character in the text you are typing, I think it may be possible for them to make an exception when entering Japanese text. Mark Smith -- A good expert knows his explanation is the best available. A bad one thinks it is the only one... S. G. Ashton
Re(2): Problems with Attachments in 5.5
Thanks Jerome. As long as I know what the problem is, and can get round it. Any idea how long it will take to fix? By the way, I was hoping this transition would see us able to select previously entered Japanaese kanji combinations when entering Japanese text. Alas, even though the kanji combinations are displayed as you enter some Japanese text, pressing the Tab key simply enters a tab character, not select the kanji combination. :-( Mark Smith -- Mark Smith: Osaka, Japan This message was written while listening to: Send Me To The 'Lectric Chair by Bessie Smith from The Complete Recordings Vol. 3 At Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:13:31 +0200, PowerMail Engineering wrote: Mark Smith wrote: Attachments seems to be causing problems for some people. I sent an AppleWorks file to an Apple Mail user, and they have been unable to open the file. It seems PowerMail 5.5 incorrectly formats attachments sent in AppleDouble (either by setting the attachment encoding to AppleDouble, or Smart if the file contains a resource fork). Until we fix the problem, you can send mac files to mac users using Binhex encoding, and all other files using Base64. Jérôme - PowerMail Engineering
Re: Kanji (was: Problems with Attachments in 5.5)
At Wed, 25 Oct 2006 09:34:53 -0400, A-NO-NE Music wrote: Matthias Schmidt / 2006/10/25 / 09:00 AM wrote: I think you need to press the enter key for selecting the kanji combination. You need to use TAB to pick one from the list first, and this feature never worked in PM as far as I know. Hiro is right. This feature has never worked in PM, ut I was hoping that the transition to universal binary via X-code would make it available. This is a feature that displays previously selected kanji combinations for a reading AS YOU ARE STILL TYPING. This means that three or four kanji combinations appear in a pop-up window even though you have still only typed the the reading for the first half of the word. (This works in TextEdit, Nisus Writer etc.) In PM, the pop-up appears, but pressing tab to select the first item in the pop-up window simply enters a tab character in the message. I guess this is a feature that only works for Cocoa applications. It would be nice if PM could use it, but its absence is not going to make me switch to another mail client. :-) Mark Smith -- Ancient Japan Kumano Kaido Info: http://www.geocities.jp/pakeman1066/ancients/japan/ancient.html
