And now for something new...FoxTrot Personal Search
Dear PowerMail-discuss members, In the process of developing and supporting PowerMail, we have heard much praise about our FoxTrot search engine's performance when finding e- mail - and frequent regrets that it was not available for other types of documents. Today, we are pleased to serve our loyal PowerMail user base with a preview of FoxTrot Personal Search, a new product that brings fast and focused find-by content to Mac OS X 10.4, 10.3 and 10.2 users. On 10.4, FoxTrot extends find-by-content beyond Spotlight's one-size- fits-all search, while supporting all the file types known to Spotlight. FoxTrot also brings 10.3 and 10.2 users a superior search tool without the hassle or cost of a system upgrade. Before we announce this to the world, we figure that PowerMail users deserve to try this first, since FoxTrot brings desktops many of the identical values; without further ado, please visit: http://www.foxtrot.ch The page itself is a bit rough around the edges and being finished, but the software has been tested extensively [usual cautionary notes about beta software nonetheless]. If you're interested in helping us with further beta testing, please do so by joining a discussion with the team: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in order to just be notified of releases (low-volume annoucements): mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Finally, while the 1.0 release will cost 29 Euro (about US$35), we are making 1.0 licenses available to PowerMail users and early adopters at only 19 Euro (about US$23.50) directly within the application (instant registration) or from: http://store.kagi.com/?6FBAW_LIVE Thank you for your attention, The entire CTM team [EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.foxtrot.ch page now up
Folks, Murphy at work... after testing the site for days, there was a hosting problem just when we were ready to get you the first FoxTrot. http://www.foxtrot.ch should now work [and Steve, you will notice in its page source that we are finally moving away, although with a sigh, from Claris Home Page ;-] If for some reason a DNS or other problem remains, you may also get the software from: http://www.ctmdev.com/download.html Finally, we would like to thank the blindfolded trust of those PowerMail users who actually already ordered since last night ! That is very touching. Cheers, jean michel/ctm qa
And now for something new...FoxTrot Personal Search
Dear PowerMail-discuss members, In the process of developing and supporting PowerMail, we have heard much praise about our FoxTrot search engine's performance when finding e- mail - and frequent regrets that it was not available for other types of documents. Today, we are pleased to serve our loyal PowerMail user base with a preview of FoxTrot Personal Search, a new product that brings fast and focused find-by content to Mac OS X 10.4, 10.3 and 10.2 users. On 10.4, FoxTrot extends find-by-content beyond Spotlight's one-size- fits-all search, while supporting all the file types known to Spotlight. FoxTrot also brings 10.3 and 10.2 users a superior search tool without the hassle or cost of a system upgrade. Before we announce this to the world, we figure that PowerMail users deserve to try this first, since FoxTrot brings desktops many of the identical values; without further ado, please visit: http://www.foxtrot.ch The page itself is a bit rough around the edges and being finished, but the software has been tested extensively [usual cautionary notes about beta software nonetheless]. If you're interested in helping us with further beta testing, please do so by joining a discussion with the team: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in order to just be notified of releases (low-volume annoucements): mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Finally, while the 1.0 release will cost 29 Euro (about US$35), we are making 1.0 licenses available to PowerMail users and early adopters at only 19 Euro (about US$23.50) directly within the application (instant registration) or from: http://store.kagi.com/?6FBAW_LIVE Thank you for your attention, The entire CTM team [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Discussion list back on line
Folks, As you've noticed, we've been having major problems with the PowerMail- discussion list, while the powermail-discuss-digest and powermail- testing were doing fine. It seems that the settings for this list became corrupt. Hopefully this message will now get to you not just as part of the digest, but as part of the regular feed. Sorry for the inconvenience, and kind regards, jean michel/ctm qa
[ANN] PowerMail 5.2.1 available
Dear PowerMail-discuss and PowerMail-testing listmembers, We are pleased to announce the availability of PowerMail 5.2.1, now downloadable from: http://www.ctmdev.com/download.html Best regards, the PowerMail team[EMAIL PROTECTED] CTM Development http://www.ctmdev.com -- PowerMail 5.2.1 change list (from 5.2) -- Fixes * PowerMail 5.2 could hang for about a minute when accessing the network under certain circumstances * The load images button (when displaying an HTML message, and image display is turned off in the preferences) did not work with Mac OS X 10.3.9 or Tiger * When creating a new PowerMail database on Mac OS X 10.4, Spotlight indexing is now turned on by default * Dates in PowerMail 5.2 were displayed as specified by the system preferences on Mac OS X 10.2 or 10.4, but not on 10.3. Additionnally, dates in non roman character sets (Japanese etc) were partially displayed on Mac OS X 10.3 or 10.4 Kind regards, the PowerMail team -- MANAGING YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONS TO POWERMAIL LISTS -- Here are a few links to help you manage your presence on our list server: To subscribe to PowerMail-announce (1 message per software update) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe to PowerMail-discuss in digest form (1 message per day) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe to PowerMail-discuss in message form (about 3 to 15 msgs per day) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - END
[ANN] [reposted] private 5.2.1b1 available
[Folks - just reposted the disk image to fix the issues with non-english languages] Greetings, We are pleased to announce a bug fix for PowerMail which is now available for testing from: http://homepage.sunrise.ch/mysunrise/ctm/pm5.2.1b1.dmg (If this link displays odd characters, try pasting it into the URL field of your browser and then use option-return instead of return ) PowerMail 5.2.1b1 change list (from 5.2) Fixes * PowerMail 5.2 could hang for about a minute when accessing the network under certain circumstances * The load images button (when displaying an HTML message, and image display is turned off in the preferences) did not work with Mac OS X 10.3.9 or Tiger * When creating a new PowerMail database on Mac OS X 10.4, Spotlight indexing is now turned on by default * Dates in PowerMail 5.2 were displayed as specified by the system preferences on Mac OS X 10.2 or 10.4, but not on 10.3. Additionnally, dates in non roman character sets (japanese etc) were partially displayed on Mac OS X 10.3 or 10.4 Please report your findings back to the PowerMail-testing or PowerMail- discuss lists, thank you. Kind regards, the PowerMail team
[ANN] private 5.2.1b1 available
Greetings, We are pleased to announce a bug fix for PowerMail which is now available for testing from: http://homepage.sunrise.ch/mysunrise/ctm/pm5.2.1b1.dmg (If this link displays odd characters, try pasting it into the URL field of your browser and then use option-return instead of return ) PowerMail 5.2.1b1 change list (from 5.2) Fixes * PowerMail 5.2 could hang for about a minute when accessing the network under certain circumstances * The load images button (when displaying an HTML message, and image display is turned off in the preferences) did not work with Mac OS X 10.3.9 or Tiger * When creating a new PowerMail database on Mac OS X 10.4, Spotlight indexing is now turned on by default * Dates in PowerMail 5.2 were displayed as specified by the system preferences on Mac OS X 10.2 or 10.4, but not on 10.3. Additionnally, dates in non roman character sets (japanese etc) were partially displayed on Mac OS X 10.3 or 10.4 Please report your findings back to the PowerMail-testing or PowerMail- discuss lists, thank you. Kind regards, the PowerMail team
[powermail-discuss ] PM 5.2b3 now available
Dear PowerMail-discuss list member, We are pleased to announce the availability of PowerMail 5.2 beta 3. This public release, containing 4 key features, 9 enhancements and 27 fixes, is available from: http://www.ctmdev.com/download.html (PowerMail 5.2 final will be a free update for PowerMail 5 owners) 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 5.2b3 RELEASE NOTES - APRIL 17th, 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 From/Sender/Reply To is not in address book (or is not in previous recipients) filter, a message whose sender is your own address (the one set in the account of the message) is now treated as if the address were not in the address book (or the previous recipients) gien than some spammers send messages using your own address for the From field. * The message list can now be scrolled horizontally using mice or trackpads with horizontal scroll control (two-finger scrolling with the appropriate extension installed) * A new method is used to determine when the computer is connected to the network; this may fix some difficultes when PowerMail tried to connect immediately after wake-up * We now allow a fresh 30-day evaluation period for those who had let an earlier PowerMail evaluation period expire * When creating the Mail folder in the user's home folder, we now set its permissions as readable by the owner only (it was previously set to be writable by the user only, but readable by the group). The permission is not changed if the Mail folder already exists, or if your database already exists in another location * Updated the version of SpamSieve on the disk image to
[ANN] PowerMail 5.0.2 and 5.1b1 available
Dear PowerMail list member, We are hereby pleased to announce the availability of the PowerMail 5.0.2 final release, which can be directly downloaded from: http://www.ctmdev.com/download.html Furthermore, we are also seeding PowerMail 5.1b1, a public beta release containing all of the improvements of 5.0.2 PLUS the HTML rendering options found in Safari. http://powermail.simplenet.com/pm5.1b1.dmg Release notes and information on managing your subscription to this list are included below. Best regards, the PowerMail team[EMAIL PROTECTED] CTM Development http://www.ctmdev.com --- POWERMAIL 5.0.2 RELEASE NOTES - SEPTEMBER 2004 --- PowerMail 5.0.2 change list (from 5.0.1) Bug fixes * A crash could occur when retrieving a message whose size is an exact multiple of 4096 bytes * The URLs in header popup did not show https URLs * Any AppleScript called by PowerMail that contained its script in the data fork but whose file also had a resource fork would result in potential changes not being saved upon quitting. * When attempting to save a script upon quitting without access rights (i.e. using a non-administrator account) PowerMail could crash upon quitting. * If the location or version of SpamSieve has changed, PowerMail was repeatedly asking the user to locate it. Now, PowerMail should ask only once and remember. * The disk image now contains the most recent version of SpamSieve, 2.2.1 * Fixed three minor glitches in the German-language plug-in * Fixed a crash when launching PowerMail with the command and option keys pressed, when using DragThing 5.3.1. --- POWERMAIL 5.1b1 PUBLIC BETA RELEASE NOTES - SEPTEMBER 2004 --- PowerMail 5.1b1 change list (from 5.0.2) Major feature * PowerMail 5.1b1 contains all of the improvements found in version 5.0.2 with the addition of WebKit integration for displaying HTML messages. This means that all of the rendering code found in Safari is now part of PowerMail's display, instead of Apple's old HTML rendering library that they have stopped supporting. When viewing HTML messages, benefits include: o Vastly improved rendering quality and reliability o Supports modern HTML (HTML 4, CSS...) o The HTML text is now selectable, copiable, and quotable o No more freezing on oddly-formatted or partially retried messages o Support for the mouse scroll wheel as well as the usual PowerMail navigation keys (space bar, etc...) o Java, Javascript, and plugins are disabled for security and privacy reasons * Known bugs o Printing does not honor the page setup options and does not display the print dialog o Printing can only occur when the HTML pane has the current focus -- MANAGING YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONS TO POWERMAIL LISTS -- Here are a few links to help you manage your presence on our list server: To unsubscribe from the list that got you on this announcement, make sure that you are writing from the e-mail address you used when subscribing and double-click on the following link: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To be notified of the final release of PowerMail 5.1, just subscribe to PowerMail-announce (only 1 message per software update): mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe to PowerMail-discuss in digest form (1 message per day): mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe to PowerMail-discuss in message form (average 3 to 15 msgs per day): mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re(2): MailSword spam
Mikael, On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 12:04:13 +0200, Mikael Byström pmdisc- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm reporting all Mailsword responses not from an individual I have mailed as Spam to Spamcop.net. I suggest you guys do the same, so that Mailsword get the attention that their service can be abused unintentionally to create spam. Hardly *their* intention. PM 5.0.1 | OS X 10.3.4 | Powerbook G4/400 | 768 MB RAM | 30 GB HD Incidentally, we have manually removed [EMAIL PROTECTED] from our listserv (it took several tries, but the address is now really off). We have always been very reluctant to remove folks from our listserv (I even remember resisting the temptation to do so amidst abrasive remarks from a member of the Outlook Express team...) but in cases like this where an address is a public technical nuisance we will act more diligently. Kind regards, jean michel
Re(2): Paying for 5.0
Tom, Heartfelt regrets from us for the inconvenience that the upgrade has caused you... On Sun, 23 May 2004 06:59:53 -0400, Tom Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In July, my wife and I will be in Europe and I'm guessing CapitolOne may stop my credit after some small transaction over there. It certainly pays to have more than one credit card. ... but hopefully we can invite you to lunch during your trip to Europe this summer perhaps ! The PowerMail team in full 5.0 production mode
[ANN] Private testing of PM5b26 final candidate
Folks, As members of the PowerMail-discuss and PowerMail-testing lists, we are pleased to inform you of the availability of a final candidate release for final testing from the public iDisk for user powermail or from: http://homepage.mac.com/powermail/ We are NOT announcing this on our home page or to public websites, as we are very close releasing 5.0; but your feedback on our lists on show- stopper bugs exclusively is most welcome. Many thanks in advance for your feedback on the mailing lists ! The PowerMail team. -- Incremental release notes (since previous seeded version) 5.0b26/ final public beta New features * During a drag and drop operation, hitting the space bar will do an immediate spring loading of the folder under the mouse, or will bring the window under the mouse to the front * Attachment references can now be deleted from AppleScript * Added a new built-in AppleScript allows to reattach attachments that have been lost Bug fixes * Fixes SMTP AUTH login issues with several servers including AOL * When hiding the toolbar from the view menu (instead of the window's title bar), the setting is now persistent * Corrupted messages that do not have an empty line to delimit the end of the message header were not saved in the database, and thus were re-downloaded at each connection * The actions defined in the Mark as good preference are now also applied when marking as good a message located in the Mail Trash * Clicking in the scrollbar of an HTML message did not work correctly in 5.0b12 * SpamSieve integration did not work properly when executing the filters manually * When forwarding a message, or when saving it as a text file, the reply-to field was labeled as from (when reply-to is configured in the short header preferences) * The message status can now be changed between incoming status (read, unread, replied...) and outgoing status (draft, sent...) via AppleScript. Usefull to change the status to sent, for messages that have been imported * When modifying a waiting message by changing it's account, it would be sent twice * The command and option keys are no longer used when running a script from the scripts menu, so it is now possible to use Mac OS 10.3's keyboard shortcuts * In the export assistant, the include attachments checkbox could be enabled when exporting to tabulated text format * Some erroneous drawing could occur on the menubar when using the contextual menu * When performing long operations that show a progress window, the message list was updated in real time. It is now updated only when the action is terminated, and this should be faster (example: when you empty the mail trash, while the trash is selected in the mail browser) - Excellent full-featured programme with top-notch support from the developers (even for bonehead queries). by far the best of many Email progs I've tried. Caber user comment from www.versiontracker.com Download a demo version from http://www.ctmdev.com -
[ANN] Private testing of PM5b26 final candidate
Folks, As members of the PowerMail-discuss and PowerMail-testing lists, we are pleased to inform you of the availability of a final candidate release for final testing from the public iDisk for user powermail or from: http://homepage.mac.com/powermail/ We are NOT announcing this on our home page or to public websites, as we are very close releasing 5.0; but your feedback on our lists on show- stopper bugs exclusively is most welcome. Many thanks in advance for your feedback on the mailing lists ! The PowerMail team. -- Incremental release notes (since previous seeded version) 5.0b26/ final public beta New features * During a drag and drop operation, hitting the space bar will do an immediate spring loading of the folder under the mouse, or will bring the window under the mouse to the front * Attachment references can now be deleted from AppleScript * Added a new built-in AppleScript allows to reattach attachments that have been lost Bug fixes * Fixes SMTP AUTH login issues with several servers including AOL * When hiding the toolbar from the view menu (instead of the window's title bar), the setting is now persistent * Corrupted messages that do not have an empty line to delimit the end of the message header were not saved in the database, and thus were re-downloaded at each connection * The actions defined in the Mark as good preference are now also applied when marking as good a message located in the Mail Trash * Clicking in the scrollbar of an HTML message did not work correctly in 5.0b12 * SpamSieve integration did not work properly when executing the filters manually * When forwarding a message, or when saving it as a text file, the reply-to field was labeled as from (when reply-to is configured in the short header preferences) * The message status can now be changed between incoming status (read, unread, replied...) and outgoing status (draft, sent...) via AppleScript. Usefull to change the status to sent, for messages that have been imported * When modifying a waiting message by changing it's account, it would be sent twice * The command and option keys are no longer used when running a script from the scripts menu, so it is now possible to use Mac OS 10.3's keyboard shortcuts * In the export assistant, the include attachments checkbox could be enabled when exporting to tabulated text format * Some erroneous drawing could occur on the menubar when using the contextual menu * When performing long operations that show a progress window, the message list was updated in real time. It is now updated only when the action is terminated, and this should be faster (example: when you empty the mail trash, while the trash is selected in the mail browser) - Excellent full-featured programme with top-notch support from the developers (even for bonehead queries). by far the best of many Email progs I've tried. Caber user comment from www.versiontracker.com Download a demo version from http://www.ctmdev.com -
[ANN] PowerMail 5 public beta 18 now available
Dear PowerMail list member, We are hereby pleased to announce the availability of the PowerMail 5.0b12 public beta release, which can be directly downloaded from: http://www.ctmdev.com/download.shtml Release notes and information on managing your subscription to this list are included below. Best regards, Marie-Therese Lamagat [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTM Development http://www.ctmdev.com --- POWERMAIL 5.0B18 RELEASE NOTES - MAY 2004 --- Incremental release notes (since previous seeded version) 5.0b18/ final public beta New features * The reply popup menu, in the toolbar, now enables replying to any of the from/sender/reply-to/to/cc address * When replying to a message, or clicking on a mailto URL, you can now close the message with no confirmation dialog if you didn't type anything in it * Reply single message is now available also in the reply button popup within the toolbar * A new popup menu appears at the bottom of the message when the header contains some usefull URLs (to manage mailing lists for example) * When clicking a mailto URL in a message, the message is now created with the same account as the message containing the URL * The perform mail filters again option, in the mark as good preference, automatically resets the label to none before filtering the message again * The attachment folder is now primarily identified using a path relative to the database, then an alias is used if it has been renamed or moved. * The toolbar settings are now saved in the PowerMail database, in addition to the user's library folder; consequently, using the database from another user or another machine will keep the toolbar settings * Now inclused the German-language resources in addition to French and English * Compacting the database now automatically performs a verification of the database consistency * When verifying the consistency of the database, the attachment references are now updated, in case they have been moved or renamed; it is recommended to go through this step of compacting before you copy your database and your attachment folder to another machine, disk or volume, or before making a backup or archive. * A dot is now drawn in the close box of windows that needs to be saved Bug fixes * Clicking a mailto URL that specify a BCC recipient now works properly * Some square characters were displayed in particular incorrectly encoded messages (when line-feed characters were quote-printable encoded) * When displaying a message whose attachments have been renamed or moved, the internal attachment reference is updated so it will be more reliable * Increased the size of the text pane margin * Messages that were in the trash prior the upgrade to PowerMail version 5 could be deleted at a random time when using the Delete from trash after n days option * Rebuilding the search index from the PowerMail First Aid did not work if background indexing was turned off * Some problems could occur when sending a message using an SMTP server the requires authentication * Some filter conditions did not work: label is, folder is, number of recipients is more than * The status bar was not drawn correctly in 2 panes mode * The tab key did not work properly when the keyboard system preference was set to full keyboard access * Reply, forward and redirect did not work from a script called from an incoming filter * The AppleScript move message to message container did not work in 5.0b12 * Improved the way exceptions are handled upon compacting o Formerly, we would try to delete the .tmp file when it was not yet closed, which caused a -47 secondary exception within the exception itself (file is busy) o Now, the .tmp file gets closed before deletion and primary-cause errors get displayed properly * When an attachment has no filename (or when a message contains multple HTML parts), the attachment is now created using the message subject as filename, instead of Enclosure or Enclosure.html. PowerMail 5 feature overview * Better at fighting spam: o Built-in filters enhancement for dealing with spam o Tight integration with SpamSieve for best efficiency * Improved performance and functionality: o Now ships as Mac OS X-only Mach0 binary (requires Mac OS X 10.2 or later) o Much faster when fetching, filtering and storing messages o Many more filter actions (including by content) o Delete messages after n days in the Mail trash o Ability to process incorrectly-decoded
[ANN] PowerMail 5 public beta 12 now available
Dear PowerMail list member, We are hereby pleased to announce the availability of the PowerMail 5.0b12 public beta release, which can be directly downloaded from: http://www.ctmdev.com/download.shtml Release notes and information on managing your subscription to this list are included below. Best regards, Marie-Therese Lamagat [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTM Development http://www.ctmdev.com --- POWERMAIL 5.0B12 RELEASE NOTES - APRIL 2004 --- This section with screen dumps can be viewed at: http://www.ctmdev.com/powermail5.shtml PowerMail 5 feature overview * Better at fighting spam: o Built-in filters enhancement for dealing with spam o Tight integration with SpamSieve for best efficiency * Improved performance and functionality: o Now ships as Mac OS X-only Mach0 binary (requires Mac OS X 10.2 or later) o Much faster when fetching, filtering and storing messages o Many more filter actions (including by content) o Delete messages after n days in the Mail trash o Ability to process incorrectly-decoded messages again o Long file names and alias support for attachments o Ability to export attachments along with messages * User interface enhancements: o Fully customizable toolbars in mail browser, recent mail, message window, address book and setting dialogs, with extra addable toolbar buttons o New multiple Undo feature on moving messages, change status, marrk read/unread, mark as spam/mark as good o Ability to use System sounds and custom sounds o New filter interface eases editing of complex rules o Configurable Address history and Recent mail views o Supports .sitx decompression if Stuffit Engine is present o Integrated and customizable Mac OS X toolbar o Live resizing of windows o Better organization of the Scripts menu PowerMail 5 feature details can be read at: http://www.ctmdev.com/release_notes.htm -- SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICING UNTIL MAY 31 FOR UPGRADING FROM EARLIER POWERMAIL VERSIONS OR BUYING NEW POWERMAIL 5 LICENSES AND SPAMSIEVE -- Until May 31st 2004 only, upgrades from previous PowerMail versions are just US$ 29, or US$ 45 including SpamSieve(TM) while new licenses are just US$ 49, or US$ 65 including SpamSieve(TM) (Note: SpamSieve alone usually costs US$ 25 !). Orders can be placed now, but will only be charged and processed upon final release of version 5.0: http://www.ctmdev.com/sales.shtml -- MANAGING YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONS TO POWERMAIL LISTS -- Here are a few links to help you manage your presence on our list server: To unsubscribe from the list that got you on this announcement, make sure that you are writing from the e-mail address you used when subscribing and double-click on the following link: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To be notified of the final release of PowerMail 5.0, just subscribe to PowerMail-announce (only 1 message per software update): mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe to PowerMail-discuss in digest form (1 message per day): mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe to PowerMail-discuss in message form (average 3 to 15 msgs per day): mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: error not enough memory
Hello, The first thing I recommend is that you disable indexing immediately in preferences when starting the application. We do know about the loop condition, but not why it happens. Eventually (but unfortunately not in the next few days) we woould like to reproduce this with your database out here. Kind regards, jm/ctm qa On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 13:30:22 +0200, DDV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, downloaded the new 4.2 final. when i open the application, it starts to reindex and then suddenly stops with the message 'not enough memory'. the message keeps coming up when clicking 'ok'. the only way to get out is to force-quit powermail. it indexed about 100 messages and now stops each time on launch immediately. how can i increase memory? mac os x 10.2.5 on ibook 600mhz 384mb ram ddv
Re: Re; Powermail 4.2 released
John, On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 18:52:12 -0400, John Snippe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Upgrades from PowerMail 4 are US$ 29 Good point - sorry about that, it should have read: - Upgrades from PowerMail 2 or 3 are US$ 29 Kind regards, PowerMail sales
[ANN] PowerMail 4.2b8/fin. candidate 4 now available
Greetings, We are hereby pleased to announce the availability of PowerMail 4.2 beta 8/final candidate 4, which can be directly downloaded from: = http://www.powermailtech.com/pm4.2b8fc4.sit = This release is NOT public; it is exclusively aimed at members of the PowerMail-discuss and PowerMail-testing lists, as well as to folks who kindly tested b1 and reported items that we may have fixed below: -- What's new in the PowerMail 4.2b8/final candidate 4 (from version 4.2b6) -- - The preferences for indexing are now functional, and we ask that you test PowerMail with indexing DISABLED as well as enabled. (The ability to disable indexing is especially useful in tight memory conditions on Mac OS 9-8) - Updated the command-key shortcuts for mark read/unread and show simple header; this way, Mac OS X's Hide Others command key now works again in PowerMail - Added a command-key shortcut for view unread - Fixed a memory allocation problem as well as another leak in a search buffer - Fixed Mac OS 8.6 compatibility for good - there was a crash when displaying search results - PowerMail no longer imports contacts from the Apple address book which contain no e-mail addresses - Increased the default memory allocation under Mac OS 9-8 - PowerMail no longer requires Mac OS X spell-checking to be fully initialized and therefore can be auto-launched on startup by Mac OS X login items - If a database was used by a prior beta version, we recalculate message count for folders on first use in order to ensure that prior negative values are cleared. Known limitations: This release is not packaged as a disk image but simply as a Stuffit archive - Command-F should select the search field (when the search window was already opened in background) - The final version will also have other localized languages * * * * * * * Please discuss your findings either: - on the PowerMail discussion list - using the Send a message to PowerMail support option in the Help menu of registered versions - if needed, by private post to us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Possible crash logs - with a description of the situations that might have lead to them, are also of interest. Thanks in advance, and kind regards, The PowerMail development team
PowerMail list up again
Folks, A quick note to inform you that the PowerMail-discuss list should be back up again - we had a major mail server outage due to the avalanche of unwanted traffic that followed the most recent virus and spam attacks. - I will happily spread the word on PowerMail. As the guy who first informed you on the discussion list of a specific problem, I'm very pleased with how you provided me with a work around and then fixed the problem quickly. I love PowerMail. I have given away my paid for licesses to Eudora and MailSmith. Thanks for your great program. John Servais, PowerMail user Download a demo version from http://www.ctmdev.com -
[ANN] PowerMail 4.2b6/fin. candidate 3 now available
Greetings, We are hereby pleased to announce the availability of PowerMail 4.2 beta 6/ final candidate 3, which can be directly downloaded from: = http://www.powermailtech.com/pm4.2b6fc3.sit = This release is NOT public; it is exclusively aimed at members of the PowerMail-discuss and PowerMail-testing lists, as well as to folks who kindly tested b1 and reported items that we may have fixed below: -- What's new in the PowerMail 4.2b6/final candidate 3 (from version 4.2b3) -- - The number of unread/waiting messages could be wrong (sometimes negative); if you have a database which still shows this in this new version, hold the command and option keys upon startup and check consistency, which will fix this - Under Classic and Mac OS 9 / 8.6, we now warn when there is less than 1Mb of memory available instead of a mere 256k; this would be an advance warning sign that searching might fail unless given more memory - Rebuilding the sort indices in PowerMail First Aid no longer messes up the order of settings lists such as accounts, signatures and text clippings - AppleScripts saved by Script Editor 2.0b2 can now be placed in in the Scripts folder and will display in the AppleScripts menu - APOP login only worked when the Always use APOP was checked; what we inteded to do initially, and now do properly, is try APOP in all cases and only try USER/PASS in case of failure unless the user explicitely requires it. - Replied IMAP messages were not marked as such - Mac OS 8.6 compatibility is now fixed Known limitations: This release is not packaged as a disk image but simply as a Stuffit archive - Command-F should select the search field (when the search window was already opened in background) - In the release version, we will cease to import OS X address book items which contain no e-mail addresses - A couple of command-key equivalents will be updated - The final version will also have other localized languages * * * * * * * Please discuss your findings either: - on the PowerMail discussion list - using the Send a message to PowerMail support option in the Help menu of registered versions - if needed, by private post to us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Possible crash logs - with a description of the situations that might have lead to them, are also of interest. Thanks in advance, and kind regards, The PowerMail development team
Re: Catastrophic DB failure with 4.2b1
Ben, Please try reconstruction with the option mentioned in the release notes of the recently-posted b3, although from the tone of the error message I would surmise that you are indeed facing irreversible trouble. Perhaps at least the new version will give you an error code that we can work from ? Also, try this: when PowerMail compacts a database, it leaves a copy of the former files in the PowerMail files folder with the suffix .old. After having made a backup of your entire data folder, try deleting the files which result from the compact operation (the ones which do not have .old at the end) then rename the .old files by deleting the suffix, and relaunch. From there, do a reconstruction with the option and command keys ON FIRST LAUNCH with all the options turned on. Let us know how you fare, thanks ! On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 17:17:39 -0400, Ben Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings all, Well, I have experienced what appears to be my first catastrophic DB failure in my several years of using PowerMail. At first, I noticed that PM was raising database errors when attempting to view some older messages. Thinking nothing of this, I decided to do a low-level rebuild, which has been successful for me in the past. First, I decided to empty my trash and compact the database for good measure. That was probably a mistake, because after doing so, PM balked with a dialog: A database error occurred: DB file is corrupted. It would not load up as usual; it gives the same error message when attempting to do a low-level rebuild. I have tried all manner of combination of the first- aid checkboxes, and continue to receive same. At this point, in order to compose this message, I've created a new user environment to start from scratch, at least in the interim. (In order to do this, I was forced to DELETE all of my previous PowerMail environment, since PM kept choking with the DB error and never giving me a chance to select or create a different user environment. I thought we used to be able to hold down Command when launching, in order to get such a choice? It does not appear to work anymore. Before deleting my old environment, I stuffed into a .sit archive, and copied to another machine for good measure.) This is a SEVERE bummer for me, if I am unable to recover. Fortunately my last backup is only about a week and a half old, but at the pace of business, that's still way too long. (I now realise I ought to back up more frequently than that) So... what's the deal here? How can I recover from this; does anyone have any ideas? Even if I am able to extract messages from the database in raw format, that is better than nothing. I am slightly agape at the total inutility of the low-level rebuild to do ANYTHING with my database. What do the class/what/when/err values in the error dialog mean; are they helpful at all to CTM? -ben -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician zygoat creative technical services 613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628 http://www.zygoat.ca
[ANN] PowerMail 4.2b3/fin. candidate now available
Greetings, We are hereby pleased to announce the availability of the PowerMail 4.2 public beta release, which can be directly downloaded from: == http://www.powermailtech.com/pm4.2fc.sit == This release is NOT public; it is exclusively aimed at members of the PowerMail-discuss and PowerMail-testing lists, as well as to folks who kindly tested b1 and reported items that we may have fixed below: -- What's new in the PowerMail 4.2b3/final candidate (from version 4.2b1) -- - Fixed a crash which would occur opn launching the application stright off the disk image - Corrected the inability to search when the mail browser was open with no selected folder - Fixed the display of high-level explanation text for typical OS Errors (i.e. disk full, etc...) - Includes a new 30-day trial period for folks who had previously expired their 30-day evaluation in an earlier version of PowerMail 4 - The toolbar's Find button now brings up Find by Content again - Fixe the Japanese-language bug introduced in b1 - Shortened the launch time - Accelerated the selection of a message within a folder or list view that would contain thousands of messages - Removes an earlier limitation in PowerMail whereby a folder or list view would only properly display its first 65535 or 32767 messages - Added two more repair cases inside the Verify consistency of database records option of PowerMail First Aid, for the following potential problems: + when the number of messages / unread messages displayed (or the bold status of the folder) for a given folder is wrong + when there is an error DB error 7 in 9 when opening the mail browser, or if some mail folders seem to have disappeared - Now includes french-language localization Known limitations: - Some b1-introduced IMAP problems are currently being fixed - The final version will also have other localized languages - This release is not packaged as a disk image but simply as a Stuffit archive * * * * * * * Please discuss your findings either: - on the PowerMail discussion list - using the Send a message to PowerMail support option in the Help menu of registered versions - if needed, by private post to us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] We are especially interested in possible crash logs with the situations that might have lead to them, are also of interest. Thanks in advance, and kind regards, The PowerMail development team
Re: PowerMail 4.2 - Find function
Don, On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 07:21:43 -0400, Don V. Zahniser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If my memory is correct, then there is a change in the function of the 'Find...' toolbar button with 4.2. I would much rather this default to 'Find in all messages'. You have a good point indeed. We will improve this. Best regards, jean michel/ctm qa - I have never used an email product that tops PowerMail, and I'm tried almost every email product available for the Mac... I think this is a wonderful product... smart, easy to use, well thought out, and fun as well. The filters are awesome, the search is extremely powerful and the address book is very functional. I like everything about this product and plan to be a satisfied user for a long time... - Jeff Forte Download a demo version from http://www.ctmdev.com -
[ANN] PowerMail 4.2 public beta now available
Greetings, We are hereby pleased to announce the availability of the PowerMail 4.2 public beta release, which can be directly downloaded from: == http://www.powermailtech.com/pm4.2b1.sit == This has been extensively tested both in-house and by devoted external testers; nevertheless, please see read this text entirely in order to use this non-final software efficiently and responsibly, thank you. What's new in the PowerMail 4.2 public beta (from version 4.1.3) - Now includes entirely new CTM FoxTrot(TM) high-speed search technology; benefits over previous PowerMail releases include: * Ultra-fast indexing and searching: benchmarks show performance gains ranging from 300% to over 500% * Instant on-the-fly indexing upon fetching messages * New extensible search user interface with combinable fields - similar to Panther's Finder searches * Supports the following search criteriae: - Entire message content - Subject - Body - From - To - From or To - other message attributes: - Date sent [range] - Date received [range] - Label - Account * Supports the following combinable search operators: - Ability to restrict searches to subject, to, from or body - Includes all of the words - Includes exact phrase - Includes at least one of the words - Does not include the words - matches the search pattern (advanced mode): - Search literal (ie: the quick brown fox) - Search words starting with (ie: quick brown f* ) - Omit words (ie: quick brown -shoe -typewriter) - OR searches (ie: quick|rapid|fast brown fox) * Offers colored hiliting of search results in a message's body * Other improvements over previous searching in PowerMail 3 and 4: - Gets rid of all former Lady errors - Background indexing now fully reliable on Mac OS X - Numbers are now indexed - Supports Japanese, Chinese and Korean properly (entirely based on Unicode) - Most of the re-indexing process occurs in a background thread, allowing simultaneous work in the application (this used to only be true for updating the index) * FILTERING can now also occur based on a message's content (notably useful for creating customizeable built-in spam filters) * IMAP SEARCHES now possible and very fast due to indexing of the local IMAP cache (once connected, the search dialog will allow restricting searches to the selected IMAP mailboxes) * Still supports Mac OS X, Mac OS 9 and even 8.6 * Now compatible with the Panther (Mac OS X 10.3) preview builds [Note: this test version is currently not localized in French, Japanese, Dutch or German; these translations will be included in the final 4.2 version.] --- 4 steps to better searching - how to install: --- 1. Make a backup of your current PowerMail files folder. Although we are confident enough to use this software on our own main databases, keep in mind that PowerMail 4.2b1 will make changes to your current databases which will no longer be readable by 4.1.3. As with any pre-release software, use it at your own risk. 2. Install PowerMail 4.2b1 and launch it; as a default, a fresh folder named PowerMail files 4.2 will be created in your User folder. If you wish to convert a copy of your 4.1 database (see point 2 above), use Switch user environments in the Database submenu of the File menu 3. After converting your database and deleting your now-obsolete V-Twin indexes, PowerMail should automatically begin the indexing process. If for some reason you wish to rebuild your index later, you may do so with the Rebuild Indexes item of the Database submenu of the File menu 4. Once the index is complete, start searching ! Compare former search results and performance, and please discuss your findings either: - on the PowerMail discussion list - using the Send a message to PowerMail support option in the Help menu of registered versions - if needed, by private post to us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] We are especially interested in possible crash logs with the situations that might have lead to them, are also of interest. Thanks in advance, and kind regards, The PowerMail development team
[ANN] PowerMail 4.2 public beta now available
Greetings, We are hereby pleased to announce the availability of the PowerMail 4.2 public beta release, which can be directly downloaded from: == http://www.powermailtech.com/pm4.2b1.sit == This has been extensively tested both in-house and by devoted external testers; nevertheless, please see read this text entirely in order to use this non-final software efficiently and responsibly, thank you. What's new in the PowerMail 4.2 public beta (from version 4.1.3) - Now includes entirely new CTM FoxTrot(TM) high-speed search technology; benefits over previous PowerMail releases include: * Ultra-fast indexing and searching: benchmarks show performance gains ranging from 300% to over 500% * Instant on-the-fly indexing upon fetching messages * New extensible search user interface with combinable fields - similar to Panther's Finder searches * Supports the following search criteriae: - Entire message content - Subject - Body - From - To - From or To - other message attributes: - Date sent [range] - Date received [range] - Label - Account * Supports the following combinable search operators: - Ability to restrict searches to subject, to, from or body - Includes all of the words - Includes exact phrase - Includes at least one of the words - Does not include the words - matches the search pattern (advanced mode): - Search literal (ie: the quick brown fox) - Search words starting with (ie: quick brown f* ) - Omit words (ie: quick brown -shoe -typewriter) - OR searches (ie: quick|rapid|fast brown fox) * Offers colored hiliting of search results in a message's body * Other improvements over previous searching in PowerMail 3 and 4: - Gets rid of all former Lady errors - Background indexing now fully reliable on Mac OS X - Numbers are now indexed - Supports Japanese, Chinese and Korean properly (entirely based on Unicode) - Most of the re-indexing process occurs in a background thread, allowing simultaneous work in the application (this used to only be true for updating the index) * FILTERING can now also occur based on a message's content (notably useful for creating customizeable built-in spam filters) * IMAP SEARCHES now possible and very fast due to indexing of the local IMAP cache (once connected, the search dialog will allow restricting searches to the selected IMAP mailboxes) * Still supports Mac OS X, Mac OS 9 and even 8.6 * Now compatible with the Panther (Mac OS X 10.3) preview builds [Note: this test version is currently not localized in French, Japanese, Dutch or German; these translations will be included in the final 4.2 version.] --- 4 steps to better searching - how to install: --- 1. Make a backup of your current PowerMail files folder. Although we are confident enough to use this software on our own main databases, keep in mind that PowerMail 4.2b1 will make changes to your current databases which will no longer be readable by 4.1.3. As with any pre-release software, use it at your own risk. 2. Install PowerMail 4.2b1 and launch it; as a default, a fresh folder named PowerMail files 4.2 will be created in your User folder. If you wish to convert a copy of your 4.1 database (see point 2 above), use Switch user environments in the Database submenu of the File menu 3. After converting your database and deleting your now-obsolete V-Twin indexes, PowerMail should automatically begin the indexing process. If for some reason you wish to rebuild your index later, you may do so with the Rebuild Indexes item of the Database submenu of the File menu 4. Once the index is complete, start searching ! Compare former search results and performance, and please discuss your findings either: - on the PowerMail discussion list - using the Send a message to PowerMail support option in the Help menu of registered versions - if needed, by private post to us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] We are especially interested in possible crash logs with the situations that might have lead to them, are also of interest. Thanks in advance, and kind regards, The PowerMail development team
[ANN] PowerMail 4.2 private preview
Greetings, We are pleased to make a preview of PowerMail 4.2 available exclusively to members of the PowerMail discuss list for testing. This is NOT a public release, please do not repost outside of the PowerMail user community, thank you. --- What's new in the PowerMail 4.2 preview (4.2a5) --- - Now includes entirely new CTM FoxTrot(TM) high-speed search technology; benefits over previous PowerMail releases include: * Ultra-fast indexing and searching: preliminary benchmarks show performance gains ranging from 300% to over 500% * Instant on-the-fly indexing upon fetching messages * Entirely based on Unicode for better international text searching * Colored hiliting of search results in a message's body * Additional search features: - Ability to restrict searches to subject, to, from or body - Search literal (ie: the quick brown fox) - Search words starting with (ie: quick brown f* ) - Search for numbers - Omit words (ie: quick brown -shoe -typewriter) - OR searches (ie: quick|rapid|fast brown fox) (see search dialog for more information) * Gets rid of all former Lady errors * Background indexing now fully reliable on Mac OS X * Most of the re-indexing process occurs in a background thread, allowing simultaneous work in the application (this used to only be true for updating the index). * Supports both Mac OS X and Mac OS 9 - ! Also new in 4.2a5: Now compatible with the WWDC Panther (Mac OS X 10.3) preview ! Known limitations in this version: - This release ships as a Stuffit archive and not yet as a disk image - Because of a dependency on Unicode, Mac OS 8.6 is not planned to be supported in PowerMail 4.2; at the very least, it is not in the current version. --- 5 steps to better searching - how to install: --- 1. In order to access this software, we ask that you join the ad hoc PowerMail-testing discussion list by clicking on the following link: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The confirmation message will contain the URL to download the 4.2 preview from. 2. Make a backup of your current PowerMail files folder. Although we are confident enough to use this software on our own main databases, keep in mind that PowerMail 4.2a5 will make changes to your current databases which will no longer be readable by 4.1.3. As with any pre-release software, use it responsibly and at your own risk. 3. Install PowerMail 4.2a5 and launch it; as a default, a fresh folder named PowerMail files 4.2a will be created in your User folder. If you wish to convert a copy of your 4.1 database (see point 2 above), use Switch user environments in the Database submenu of the File menu 4. After converting your database and deleting your now-obsolete V-Twin indexes, PowerMail should automatically begin the indexing process. If for some reason you wish to rebuild your index later, you may do so with the Rebuild Indexes item of the Database submenu of the File menu 5. Once the index is complete, start searching ! Compare former search results and performance, and please discuss your findings either on the PowerMail-testing list exclusively, or by private post to us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] We are especially interested in feedback from Japanese- and Chinese-language users with respect to the way words are broken up for indexing; possible crash logs, with the situations that mght have lead to them, are also of interest. Thanks in advance, and kind regards, The PowerMail development team [EMAIL PROTECTED]
