Negative unread messages in the inbox
Hi, In the past two weeks I have started to experience the strangest thing. Having read all the messages in my In Tray, the In Tray will continue to remain bold, and where the number of messages in the box and number of unread messages is shown, it will show something like 933 messages, -3 unread The only way that I can make the -3 unread and the bold In Tray go away is to compact my mailboxes. When that completes, there are no new unread emails in the inbox, and unread and bold are gone. I am using version 5.5 build 4456 on my Intel Macbook Pro with 10.4.8 and 2GB of RAM. Robert Snyder Outreach Technology Services The Pennsylvania State University 151A Outreach Building University Park PA 16802 Phone: 814-865-0912 Fax: 814-865-4406 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Database Rebuild FAILED
On Jan 23, 2006, at 5:02 PM, Andy Fragen wrote: Agreed. But my experience differs. I've never had an unfixable db error with PM and I've been using it since v3 Andy, I also have had PM since v.3 and until Sunday had not encountered a problem that PM could not recover. An interesting side note, and one that really disturbs me, is that just prior to the PM failing to compress with DB errors my account on my OS X server mail server became corrupt and had to be recovered by doing a rebuild on the server. Since I use PM in pop mode for this account, the server only has messages on it for a very short period of time (the build up between checks and logins). This leads me to believe that perhaps the root of this could be a single bad email. As to PowerMail Salvage, I purchased it--given how long it took to run through just 1% of the DB, I didn't want to have run the tool twice since you have to quit to enter the purchase key, and then start the salvage all over again. PMS has been running on my system for over 24 hours, and so far it it reports that his recovered 219,798 messages in 825 folders. The progress bar shows about 10% left to go. Of course until I actually am able to finish the salvage and export the recovered emails, I won't be sure this has worked, but things are looking good. A suggestion to anyone in my shoes. Buy the license key for PMS before running the salvage all the way through once on a large DB. You will just have to start it from scratch again once you get the license key. Second, do the salvage on desktop system and not on a laptop. I have had to drive to and from work with the powerbook open on the passenger seat to keep the salvage running. I would guess that the beefier the machine, the better. Thanks for the feedback from everyone. Robert
Database Rebuild FAILED
Hi, My database was nearing 2GB, so I tried to compress it, but that tailed with a database error. So I tried to perform a low level database rebuild, but that failed. HELP. This has all of my important data in it--licenses, serial numbers, job histories, etc. Is there any way to extract data from the database? How can I get PowerMail to launch again--it keeps failing with a database error when I try to launch it. Robert Snyder
Why does rebuilding database mount file systems?
I have an odd situation where every time I rebuild my mail database, PowerMail opens four, network attached file systems. While I have migrated my mail from various systems over the years, this situation is particularly odd since none of the file systems it opens could possibly have been systems I used my mail on. Typically, it happens during the verify consistency portion of the process. While it is usually just annoying, it becomes a real problem when I am trying to rebuild my database without a network connection. In that case, it keeps trying to open the file spaces and does not progress. How can I get this behavior to stop? Robert Robert Snyder, Director World Campus Data Management Services The Pennsylvania State University 105 Mitchell Building University Park PA 16802 Phone: 814-865-0912 Fax: 814-865-4406 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu
PowerMail and CodeTek VirtualDesktop?
I have started to use Code Tek's VirtualDesktop application and noticed some odd behavior with PowerMail windows. Specifically, There are times when I have selected the Mail Browser, picked a message, and can see the vertical scroll bar in the message, but it remains grey and cannot be moved. This usually happens if I have PowerMail messages on more than one desktop. I also find that if select a PowerMail message anywhere, except the top window Bar, that I cannot actually type in the message area. It is sort of half selected, but not fully active. Is anyone else experiencing these types of things with the combination of VirtualDesktop and PowerMail (5.1)? Robert Robert Snyder, Director World Campus Data Management Services The Pennsylvania State University 105 Mitchell Building University Park PA 16802 Phone: 814-865-0912 Fax: 814-865-4406 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu
Re: Please Make PowerMail a Good Security Player
On Sat, Nov 20, 2004, PowerMail discussions wrote: Robert Snyder wrote: If PowerMail supported CRAM-MD5 and/or Kerberos, it would be an acceptable mail client. PowerMail automatically use CRAM-MD5, if the server supports it, for SMTP authentication. It uses plain text authentication only if the server does not tell it supports CRAM-MD5. Jérôme, This is wonderful news. And the proof is in my server's SMTP logs: Nov 20 17:25:25 mitwc67 postfix/smtpd[16155]: 1CB363FE7B9: client=pool- 141-158-216-4.alt.east.verizon.net[141.158.216.4], sasl_method=CRAM-MD5, sasl_username=rns3 I only wish that is was mentioned somewhere in the documentation. I feel much better about using and recommending PM; however, I would still like it if you could Please add the support SSl SMTP on Panther Server. Is there any chance that you can change the SSL SMTP support to also include port 25 using the STARTTLS command? Since Panther server release there have been a number of requests made to this list for that support. Thank You for correcting my error. Robert Robert Snyder, Director World Campus Data Management Services The Pennsylvania State University 105 Mitchell Building University Park PA 16802 Phone: 814-865-0912 Fax: 814-865-4406 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu
Re: powermail-discuss Digest #1977 - 11/20/04
On Sat, Nov 20, 2004, PowerMail discussions wrote: Robert at [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on 20/11/04 4:58 pm The Sys Admin side of me wants to ban the use of PowerMail (until it can support either encrypted SMTP passwords or SSL SMTP using STARTTLS on port 25). Just as an aside, what would you use instead? Derry, Our University has a site license for Eudora, so it is free for me to use. However, I use PowerMail for a number of reasons, not the lease of which is that PM adopted and delivered a stable OS X version much earlier that Eudora. Robert Robert Snyder, Director World Campus Data Management Services The Pennsylvania State University 105 Mitchell Building University Park PA 16802 Phone: 814-865-0912 Fax: 814-865-4406 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu
Please Make PowerMail a Good Security Player
As both a system administer and a PowerMail user, I am at a cross roads with PowerMail. I have used PowerMail for over four years, purchasing upgrades as those have come up. I like it a lot. I have been pleased with the advances that PowerMail has made (the search engine and html rendering upgrades) and I like that PowerMail allows me to use plain text as my default for sending and receiving. However, as a system administrator, concerned about the security of my mail server, I am at my wits end with the how PowerMail handles Password Authentication of SMTP and SSL SMTP. Since most of my mail server users have laptops and they connect from a broad array of networks, I cannot nail down SMTP relay to just specific networks. I need to rely on Authenticated SMTP. PowerMail supports this, but only using unsecured, clear text passwords. This means that I must allow my users to send their system passwords over the network in the clear if they want to use PowerMail as their mail client. We have completely blocked all FTP traffic on our networks because of the clear-text password problem inherent with FTP. If PowerMail supported CRAM-MD5 and/or Kerberos, it would be an acceptable mail client. However, I could get over the clear text SMTP password authentication if only the SSL support was not limited to SSL on a separate port. I run OS X Server 10.3.6 on my mail server and have it configured for SSL on SMTP, POP, and IMAP. However, OS X Server 10.3.x and above support SSL on port 25 using the STARTTLS command. This means that my PowerMail users can encrypt the whole transaction including the password the send to retrieve mail from my POP and IMAP server, BUT they have to send their password in the clear when they send mail. The Sys Admin side of me wants to ban the use of PowerMail (until it can support either encrypted SMTP passwords or SSL SMTP using STARTTLS on port 25). The PowerMail side of me wants to give a blind eye to this security breach. I have over a gig of compressed mail messages in my current account, and have archived another gig. I love how fast I can search on my mail to find relevant messages. PowerMail Engineering, PLEASE help me out. I am guessing that updating the code to allow SSL SMTP using STARTTLS on port 25 is the easier of the two paths to being a good security player. It would also encrypt the whole SMTP transaction. It would also be my preference, but I would happily take CRAM-MD5 support on the password. Please Make PowerMail a good security player before I am forced to move on to another, more secure mail client! Sincerely, Robert Snyder PowerMail User and System Administrator Robert Snyder, Director World Campus Data Management Services The Pennsylvania State University 105 Mitchell Building University Park PA 16802 Phone: 814-865-0912 Fax: 814-865-4406 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu
Re: powermail-discuss Digest #1866 - 07/13/04
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004, PowerMail discussions wrote: c) if I get such a failed message, I can just select send from control- click onto the exclamation point and then send and it sends, no dancing through draft nor copy/paste etc. I wish this worked, but I can document that mail that failed and was resent using all but actually creating a new message and copy/pasting failed to send the message. I am using the most current version of PowerMail. It would also be nice if there was ANY documentation of this symbol and what it means in the PowerMail documentation. Robert Robert Snyder, Director World Campus Data Management Services The Pennsylvania State University 105 Mitchell Building University Park PA 16802 Phone: 814-865-0912 Fax: 814-865-4406 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/my.campus
What does the yellow Triangle with the ! mean in Outr Tray mail?
Hello, I sent a number of messages while at WWDC that originally got bounced by my mail server. If I look in the Out Tray, they are all tagged by yellow triangles (think caution road signs) with exclamation points on them. Once I realized that they had been bounced, I fixed the problem with my smtp server firewall, but even though other mail was getting through, each time I tried to resend the Yellow Triangle ! notes they would change to the Watch symbol for waiting to send then once sent would return to the Yellow Triangle !. It appears that even though I have resent these email with a good smtp connection, they are not getting through. I check the documentation but could find no mention of this symbol, what it means, or how to send the messages again. Help Robert Robert Snyder, Director World Campus Data Management Services The Pennsylvania State University 105 Mitchell Building University Park PA 16802 Phone: 814-865-0912 Fax: 814-865-4406 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/my.campus
Cannot get rid of old mailserver
Hello, I recently switched mailservers, and set up the information for the new mailserver, but could not get to work until I called it primary.mail. Then all worked fine (pop account). Since I had taken down my old mail server, I deleted all the accounts related to that server. However, when I check mail, powermail still says it is trying to connect to the old mail server in the status bar at the bottom of the mail window. I am running 5.0.1, but have been a licensed customer since the early 4.x versions. This is particular problem because I am traveling hand have a very limited internet connection. Robert Robert Snyder, Director World Campus Data Management Services The Pennsylvania State University 105 Mitchell Building University Park PA 16802 Phone: 814-865-0912 Fax: 814-865-4406 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/my.campus
PowerMail 5.0 License?
I am sure this has been answered on this list, but I missed it. I have a valid PowerMail 4.x license and would like to try PowerMail 5.0 beta, but my mail folder far exceeds the demo's limits. Earlier today I went to the PowerMail site and purchaed the $29 upgrade to 5.0 from 4.x, but have gotten no reply other than that my card will not be billed until the full 5.0 version is released. Is that when I will get my 5.0 key? Also, I already have a SpamSieve license. I like that PM now includes SpamSeive, but I don't like that I now have to purchase it a second time. Any advice? Robert Snyder, Director World Campus Data Management Services The Pennsylvania State University 105 Mitchell Building University Park PA 16802 Phone: 814-865-0912 Fax: 814-865-4406 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/my.campus
RE: PowerMail support case #BYLOSE
I have a problem with PowerMail that I sent to support several days ago, but have not heard back from them I will bring it here to see if anyone has experienced this or knows how to fix it. I was reading mail from my In Tray when my powerbook decided to suddenly shut down. When I rebooted and opened PM all the messages were still in the In Tray--good, I thought. However, once I finished reading the all the messages in the In Tray, it failed to become unbolded. I tried first to compact my databases, but after compacting the addresses it would fail when it tried to compact the mail boxes, saying that there in use error. The next thing I tried was low level rebuild of the DBs from the repair menu by launching with option-command held down. This rebuilt went fine, but when my Mail Browser opened, the In Tray was still Bolded, even though I had no unread messages in the Tray. PM seems to be working OK, but it is very annoying not being able to tell if there really is new mail in my In Tray. Any suggestions? PowerMail support case #BYLOSE PowerMail version: 4.2 carbon Mac OS version: 10.2.6 Customer ID: BFLFG-ACGLR-AALRH-GBGDL-FGDTB-CFEDL Robert Snyder, Director World Campus Data Management Services The Pennsylvania State University 105 Mitchell Building University Park PA 16802 Phone: 814-865-0912 Fax: 814-865-4406 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/my.campus
Powermail 4.2b1 Carbon Crash on reading HTML formatted mail
r10: 0xfffe r11: 0x04099d40 r12: 0x919f1670 r13: 0x0085b1c4 r14: 0x0001 r15: 0x02504960 r16: 0x047b6510 r17: 0x r18: 0x r19: 0x r20: 0x r21: 0x0001 r22: 0x00860e30 r23: 0x028f r24: 0x04099d40 r25: 0x048129e0 r26: 0xbfffe0e0 r27: 0x r28: 0x04099cc0 r29: 0x041fcbc0 r30: 0x r31: 0x919ba3e8 Robert Snyder, Director World Campus Data Management Services The Pennsylvania State University 105 Mitchell Building University Park PA 16802 Phone: 814-865-0912 Fax: 814-865-4406 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/my.campus
SpamSieve Problems in 4.2.1b?
I installed the new 4.2 public beta over the weekend. Since doing so, my registered copy of SpamSieve has stopped automatically shunting spam to the Spam folder in PowerMail. I have reinstalled SpamSieve, and the manual Add Spam script works fine. Just not the automated spam filter. Has anyone else encountered this? Are there changes to the AppleScript/ Filters functions of PowerMail 4.2.1b that would explain this? Robert Robert Snyder, Director Distance Education/World Campus Data Management Services PThe Pennsylvania State University 105 Mitchell Building University Park PA 16802 Phone: 814-865-0912 Fax: 814-865-4406 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/my.campus
Useful Additions to Powermail (more)
For what it is worth, I would really like to search other fields than the message content. Specifically, I often need to find all email from or to a specific person. In addition, it would be ideal to have the ability to search by date, and in addition to be able limit a search by dates (between mm/dd/ and mm/dd/). This one area where Eudora search tools excel (or at least best I can remember since I switched from Eudora to PM more than a year ago). I have nearly a GB of stored mail. Adding these search refinements to the excellent PM search tools would really be great for someone like me who keeps his memory in in his email boxes. Robert Snyder, Director Distance Education/World Campus Data Management Services Project director, my.campus LAAP Project The Pennsylvania State University 105 Mitchell Building University Park PA 16802 Phone: 814-865-0912 Fax: 814-865-4406 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/my.campus
