Re: PowerMail Doesn't Start TCP Connection Automatically Any More
By the way: Wouldn't you like to update to Mac OS X at long last? These problems could be the opportunity. You will be surprised how fine it works, better than every other Mac OS ever in many many aspects. No more restarts. After 3 days you are used to the changes. Or do you have special needs or hardware so that you have to use the old OS with its bad RAM management? I don't care to get into a discussion about the relative merits of OS X versus previous Mac OS's. Let's just say my sig says it all. :) I'd prefer constructive help about the OS I *am* using and the version of this app most people here seem to have had some experience with prior to the current version. RC Rein Ciarfella [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIMM=rcsails OS 9.1 (holdout) PowerMail 4.2.1
Re: PowerMail/Epson conflict (RESOLVED!) :)
Matthias you have a port problem. The OS thinks the modem is connected to this port. How do you connect to the internet? Check your settings under Schedules. Check your connection settings. You're correct! See below... Don I reported a problem between PowerMail, Mac OS 9.1, and my Epson Stylus 740 to PowerMail Engineering back in May 2003 when we were still in 4.1.2, and also posted a note to the list about this issue a few months later. I _think_ I resolved the issue on my machine by making sure that Appletalk was not pointing to my Printer/Modem port, even when turned off. I don't recall having seen it under Mac OS 8.6 or 9.0.4. I've solved the problem, as per your help, by going into my AppleTalk control panel and making one adjustment. I never did understand what the deal with AppleTalk was about, probably because I've never set up a network. Somewhere along the line since installing OS 9.1 I must have inadvertently selected the wrong choice. What I don't understand is why everything worked fine until now, but now that I'm fully functional with PowerMail not triggering my printer anymore I'm happy as a clam! :) Thanks guys! RC Rein Ciarfella [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIMM=rcsails OS 9.1 (holdout) PowerMail 4.2.1
Re: Turnaround time for licence? (Changed to Threading query)
Barbara Threading is not available in PowerMail. The workaround is to sort by subject. This has come up periodically in the past and I think the end result is that, it is not going to be a part of PM. I originally wanted threading and even tried a couple other e-mail clients that do threading of one sort or another; but PowerMail's other features of particular views, filtering, etc. drew me back. I just tried Basheera Khan's suggestion. I've been manually dragging (until I figure out how to get a filter to do it automatically - I'll get into *that* later!) every PM List message into a single folder and I just opened up that folder in a separate window and clicked on Subject. Although it's not true threading, the subjects line up alphabetically and then chronologically, so you *can* scroll down to see posts on specific topics. (Another brilliant reason for my not posting, inappropriately, with my dating stamp in the Subject line!) This, to my mind, achieves a result every bit as useful. I suppose if you've got umpteenzillion posts in there it might not work, but for now, for me, it's a way to make order out of chaos. RC Rein Ciarfella [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIMM=rcsails OS 9.1 (holdout) PowerMail 4.2.1
Re: POWERMAIL/EPSON CONFLICT
Matthias this might be a problem of the printer driver or a conflict between the printer driver and another extension of your system. Try installing the last version of the printer driver for classic. Disable all System Extensions and enable them step by step. I checked a printer forum and couldn't find any problem reports about Stylus Color 600 and OS 9.x I have the latest driver for this printer and never had this problem prior to using PM. This suggests to me it is PM-related. In troubleshooting I forced the Epson driver to the top of the extensions list to load first but it didn't help. Actually, I've used this printer since my OS 7.6.1 days but the previous driver didn't allow this printer to function when I upgraded to OS 8.1 so I had to retire it until I discovered they came out with a new driver which enabled the printer in my subsequent OS 9.1. Dusted off the old printer, installed the new driver and was good to go, until now. I know little about ports, but have a suspicion it may be port-connected. Remember - the printer is on, functioning perfectly (but not being used at the time), I launch PM and the printer immediately gets a signal from PM and starts printing a garbage page all by itself and requires a factory reset to function properly once again. I did not send a print job to it. Something in PM is communicating to the printer. No other app I have ever used has caused this to occur. Thanks for your help! As an additional query, could someone test print a PM email with v4.2.1 just to see what happens? It occurs to me that using a printer while doing email may not be a common occurence (I can't recall ever doing it, myself) and this would be a way to determine if it is, in reality, my printer driver or the problem exists within the 4.2.1 code. RC Rein Ciarfella [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIMM=rcsails OS 9.1 (holdout) PowerMail 4.2.1
Re: Subject: Re: 05/03/08-(....)
can you please post your answers or postings with a normal subject line ? Yes. Sorry, folks. RC Rein Ciarfella [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIMM=rcsails OS 9.1 (holdout) PowerMail 4.2.1
05/03/08-RC (PM/IMAP FILTER ISSUE)
A while back I created a filter to auto-redirect all incoming email (IMAP server) (IMAP 4 protocol) to my previous email address. This worked very well until I decided a while ago to stop that action. Deleting that filter did nothing and all mail continued to redirect. I recreated the filter one more time and tested it before and after I deleted it to see if that would help, with no change in results. In an attempt to repair this I did restart with PM First Aid and reset Prefs but it did not help. I realize this may be a fault of the IMAP server at my ISP, but since the filter was created using PowerMail I thought I should try to address it within the application first, before contacting my ISP. I contacted my ISP this morning and he suggested I log onto my online email server via a browser to access it that way. As I had not done this yet it hadn't even occurred to me that rules could be created or modified there. As is probably obvious to most other users, I realized I could delete the filter I had created and I did so, with success. My question is why I could not delete a rule I had created *with* the software *from* the software. RC Rein Ciarfella [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIMM=rcsails OS 9.1 (holdout) PowerMail 4.2.1
05/03/08-RC (PM/SPACEBAR ISSUE)
A very small issue I have is when saving an email and typing something in the Name cell if I hit the Spacebar the text in the body of the email (underneath the Save dialogue box) scrolls downward one section for every time I hit the Spacebar. I'm sure this is a simple programming oversight but it would be nice to confirm that I'm not doing something incorrectly or overlooking some preference. RC Rein Ciarfella [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIMM=rcsails OS 9.1 (holdout) PowerMail 4.2.1
05/03/08-RC (POWERMAIL/SAVE CHANGES DIALOGUE)
Opening up an old email always results in a Save Changes? dialogue when I go to close it, even when I have done nothing to the email. I would prefer a default that does nothing when I close an email. If I'm going to save it I can do that without a prompt. Better yet would be a preference to toggle this on and off as desired. Have I missed something? RC Rein Ciarfella [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIMM=rcsails OS 9.1 (holdout) PowerMail 4.2.1
05/03/08-(POWERMAIL/EPSON CONFLICT)
A problem has arisen with a conflict between PowerMail and my Epson Stylus Color 600 printer. Any time PM is turned on my printer fails to function properly and I must do a factory reset (only achieved by turning off my computer, unplugging the serial cord to the printer, resetting, reconnecting and restarting). I have duplicated this malfunction in two ways: printer on first and then launching PM (resulting in the printing of 1/3 page of garbage) or PM on first and powering up the printer (resulting in printer power light flashing). Both cases necessitate a factory reset of the printer to enable functionality once again. Any Ideas? RC Rein Ciarfella [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIMM=rcsails OS 9.1 (holdout) PowerMail 4.2.1
Re: 05/03/08-RC (Barbara)
If you have any System 9.x you can update to 9.2.2 for free. See: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75288 Well, I stand corrected, big time! I'll stick by my guns with the terminology; upgrade=$, update=free. I'll also stick by my guns in terms of glitches with systems subsequent to 9.1; they all had problems and 9.1 is pretty much bug free. RC Rein Ciarfella [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIMM=rcsails OS 9.1 (holdout) PowerMail 4.2.1
Re: Still Love PowerMail but...(Dr. D)
Dr. D If something works, is efficient and cheap it does not need to evolve. Such biological metaphors in computing are tempting but possibly misleading. There are lots of people out there with a financial interest in such evolution but we know who they are and can try to resist them by not giving them out money. I'm more optimistic than that: free software has made a big difference to the amount of proprietary gouging software firms can do. If Powermail gets too annoying I can choose to bite the bullet and spend a couple of days getting to grips with mutt. Hard core, but then I know I won't get shafted. Dude, you just echoed what I wrote, at the same time! You are *MY* kind of person! The other catchword is grow, as in financial growth, nation's growth, etc. Who ever said 'growing' was good?! How about improving? I see you're at 4.2.1 Carbon. Does that mean you're running with CarbonLib 1.5 or 1.6 on a 9._ system? If not, and you're on an OS X machine, are you satisfied enough with 4.2.1 to stick, even though you could upgrade? RC Rein Ciarfella Cape Cod Sailmakers Cape Cod Sailing Brokerage Old Valley Road/POB 3046 Waquoit, MA 02536 508-540-8264 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Do not add my email to any group. Always blind copy)
05/03/08-RC (DON Z)
Reporting in... PB1400/133MHz; 64Mb RAM; MacOS 9.0.4; PM 4.2.1 Don V. Zahniser Oh, thank God! Another non-power user! ;-) You know you can update to MacOS 9.1 for free, right? It'll fix some known problems you may be having. Email me aside? How long have you been using v4.2.1? RC Rein Ciarfella Cape Cod Sailmakers Cape Cod Sailing Brokerage Old Valley Road/POB 3046 Waquoit, MA 02536 508-540-8264 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Do not add my email to any group. Always blind copy)
05/03/08-RC (ANNA, ET AL)
Hi, I am also relatively new here. I am using OS X.3.5 with PM 5.1. I moved to OS X at the end of December, and before that was still using 9.1 with Claris Emailer. It has been quite a project transitioning to a new OS, but I am happy I did it. So far I am happy with PowerMail. Yeah; I'm still working out how to transfer Address Book groups out of AOL. I've downloaded Claris Emailer and the last updates because I looks like that's what it will take. Had to do similar contortions to get tens of thousands of bookmarks out of AOL and into iCab. I didn't respond to your question earlier because it looked like a lot of people were responding with the same answers, and I thought it would be redundant. --Anna G4 MDD, 1.25 dual, 1.5G RAM, OS X.3.5 Well, I thank you, just the same! Thanks also to all those who let me know what OS and PM version they were using. It *is* helpful to me to know what sort of support group I have out there for my (now) outdated version. As usual, a *real* manual would have been nice... ;-) RC Rein Ciarfella Cape Cod Sailmakers Cape Cod Sailing Brokerage Old Valley Road/POB 3046 Waquoit, MA 02536 508-540-8264 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Do not add my email to any group. Always blind copy)
05/03/08-RC (CHRIS)
You can always look at the headers to see which versions people are using. Lurk a little and they'll show up. Duh! (slap myself up side the head) I *did* know that, but totally forgot! Brilliant, and *done*! Looks like (for those who could really give a ) that the predominant version is 5.1 with a handful using the latest alpha and one (Jerome, of course) using the 5.2 alpha. There appears to be perhaps as many still using 4.2.1 as using the alpha, so at least I'm not totally alone. :) Since I've moved on to Jaguar/Panther I've kept a version of PowerMail on my OS 9 partition just in case. Haven't had the need to use it, so it recently got deleted and I'm now version 5.1 in Panther. ...and if I were using one of those Cats I'd be right there with ya, dude! It is courteous to ask if there's an archive before posting questions, as you did, and as many people have done when getting started with the list here. From the number of messages people reported saved from the PowerMail list, you might get some idea of what an archive would look like/how useful it would be, of course, were it now existing. So from the 4.2 release date it's been, what, less than two years of messages and a release into version 5. Not much to have missed. ...and I'm always, if not anything else, courteous! ;-) (My mom always told me to be that way; didn't yours?) I guess all that is to say, Ask away! We don't bite. Really. :) ...and it's a good thing, given the number of inane questions I've got! :) Brace yourself for the barrage! RC Rein Ciarfella Cape Cod Sailmakers Cape Cod Sailing Brokerage Old Valley Road/POB 3046 Waquoit, MA 02536 508-540-8264 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Do not add my email to any group. Always blind copy)
05/03/08-RC (Barbara)
It took me a long time to decide to upgrade from 4.2, since it really met my needs. As far as 9.1, isn't 9.2 a free upgrade? I don't tend to migrate rapidly either (although I wouldn't mind migrating annually to the BVI). ;-) When I do migrate, the upgrade has to be a finished release with all the bugs worked out; I'm not interested in bug testing (that's what I pay my money for). No, MacOS 9.2 is not a free upgrade, to my knowledge. Only *updates* are (free) and they are labelled as such. I've never used a MacOS that was in it's initial stages, so I've gone from 7.1 to 7.6.1 to 8.1 to 9.1, skipping merrily right over all the updates that exhibited multitudes of problems and caused so many Mac users to pull their hair out in frustration. In my opinion Apple has never perfected (as far as humanly possible) OS X and I have no intention of upgrading until I'm absolutely forced to for reasons of software requirements. My wife has 10.3 on her machine and what I've seen of OS X so far (over the last couple of years) is bells and whistles with no substance. It has far less intuitive user control over interface or function, the primary reasons I've liked the Mac for the last decade. I stopped upgrading at 9.1 because the primary motivation for the design of 9.2+ was migration to OS X and there were bugs in it that were never fixed as Apple pushed OS X out the door. I'm a tool user. I perform exhaustive research prior to the purchase of the best tool I can afford to accomplish a specific task. I then take very good care of it and expect it to last until I have no more use for it. I reject the concept that I should blindly accept, for reasons of affluence or boredom or ignorance, every single software and hardware offering that the whiz kids at Apple (or anywhere else) decide they think we might want or they can persudes us we somehow can't live without. If I decide I want to acquire a tool (read - hardware, software) it's because I have a genuine requirement for the task that tool will accomplish, not a desire generated by some sales person or designer whose raison d'etre is not connected with service to my needs or providing reasonable product for compensation but instead only the golden pot at the end of the IT highway. Harumph! Have I finished ranting for the day? Sheesh! Sorry! ;-) To take myself down a couple pegs, yes, I was an AOLamer for a decade and yes, it's the tool (I use that term lightly here) which I utilized to get me connected to the Internet. It took years for me to deduce that there might be a better way. Hey, we all had to start SOMEWHERE! :) Could I blame this on Apple for including AOL connection software in my Performa 575 package? Yup! Hey; all I really wanted was a word processor! Who knew the durned thing would connect to the Internet too! By the way, anyone want to buy a perfectly good Performa 575? ;-) RC Rein Ciarfella Cape Cod Sailmakers Cape Cod Sailing Brokerage Old Valley Road/POB 3046 Waquoit, MA 02536 508-540-8264 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Do not add my email to any group. Always blind copy)
05/03/07-RC (PM ARCHIVE AND PM USER'S OS/PM VERSION)
1-My initial question was related to whether there existed a PM List archive and got transmuted to how many PM *List* saved messages a few individuals had. Someone then transmuted that to how many archived PM messages one had altogether. Although those are very interesting statistics to me (and I'm sure others, because it brought up an interesting point of file capability), I question how useful a PM file might be to me in troubleshooting and learning PM. If the experienced group members think I could actually glean information effectively from acquiring one of those files (from a helpful member) and performing PM searches on it then I might be game for that solution. 2-Some individuals have given their input (Thanks!) on their OS, PM version, etc., but quite a few members have not responded, which makes me wonder whether they are receiving the List as a digest and how often/when that goes out (?) or whether my question is just being viewed as coming from a goofy newbie and not worth wasting time on. 3-So far not one other individual has mentioned that they are still at OS 9.1 or using PowerMail 4.2.1. I'm getting really lonely here! ;-) RC Rein Ciarfella [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIMM=rcsails OS 9.1 (holdout) PowerMail 4.2.1
