[ANN] PowerMail 4.2b8/fin. candidate 4 now available

[PowerMail info]

Greetings,

We are hereby pleased to announce the availability of PowerMail 4.2 beta
8/final candidate 4, which can be directly downloaded from:
 
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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:

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What's new in the PowerMail 4.2b8/final candidate 4 (from version 4.2b6)
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- 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

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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: [ANN] PowerMail 4.2b8/fin. candidate 4 now available

[Don V. Zahniser]

So far, I can confirm the following:

1) The problem I had with inability to log into my POP server has been fixed;

2) The problem with crashing when selecting a searched message has been fixed;

3) When the empty Mail Trash on quit preference is set, the problems with
the folder name remaining boldface when empty, and the message count
inaccuracy seem to have been fixed.  It appears to me that the unread
message count now only appears when there are unread messages in a
folder.  Previously, I seem to recall having seen an unread message count
when there were no unread messages in a folder.

4) I had tried to make a couple of very quick, rudimentary attempts to
filter message content in earlier versions of 4.2b, but without success.
 I may have made errors in the attempt.  However, I am now able to filter
messages by content.  

No problems so far...

Powerbook 1400cs/117, Mac OS 8.6, 64MB RAM, RamDoubler 9

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Don V. Zahniser
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re(2): [ANN] PowerMail 4.2b8/fin. candidate 4 now available

[Emily Jackson]

At 7:33 PM -0500 on Saturday, August 30, 2003, Don V. Zahniser
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>No problems so far...

I'm still having problems with seeing a negative number of unread
messages in my In tray (this has plagued the last few betas for me). I
have PowerMail set to skip messages over 40 kb, and when I have it
retrieve incomplete messages, the unread count is thrown off. For
example, today I had 76 unread messages in my In tray, 3 of which were
incomplete. I selected the 3 messages and had PM retrieve complete copies
of these messages; afterward, the unread count had been changed to 73, so
reading all my new messages eventually led to my In tray's current state
(30 messages, -3 unread). Running the PM first aid routine will fix this,
but it will return the next time I have skipped messages that need to be
retrieved. There is a workaround (mark the incomplete messages as read
before retrieving them), but I was hoping this would be fixed soon. I've
reported this to PM support twice.

Emily

[iMac G3 600 MHz (Summer 2001), Mac OS X 10.2.6, 512MB RAM]