Mikke Byström [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tuesday, March 11, 2003 stated:
Those of you users that also have insights into the scriptability of PM,
could possibly tell me this. Or if, there is such an existing
script/product already that some of you use for backing up your mail. Am
I really alone in
Barbara Needham said like this:
You can export the entire PM database, Or you can
export folder by folder. Or you can export selected messages. It is under
File:Database.
You can export into PowerMail format. You can export into MS Entourage
exported mailbox [never tried that]. You can export
Andy Fragen said like:
PM saves the message database in a single file. It would logically be
very difficult for Tri-Backup or any backup solution to only backup the
changes to the message database without backing up the whole message
database. This is the problem with all email clients that
Jonathan Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tuesday, March 11, 2003 stated:
You need More Internet which is a pref pane you can grab from version
tracker or macupdate
I probably need to read these messages closer... ;-)
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sans la Musique la Vie serait une Erreur
Without music, life would be a
This probably isn't a PowerMail question, but when I get a message with
an ftp link in it, and I click it, it opens Netscape rather than Safari.
I couldn't find a preference in PM for this, and I couldn't find an
Internet preference related to this either. Where is this set? TIA.
Ron
Marvellous! :-)
Thanks!
/Max G
At 11 mars 2003, 10.31 CET, Karel Gillissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I get som html spam mails I the Show Simple/Full Header commands
are greyed out, and I can't see were the mail comes from. In Entourage
(and most other emailers, I believe) the is a View
On 10/3/03 Barbara Needham wrote:
I do find it works better folder by folder than doing the whole thing at
once, but I do that sometimes also.
Doing it folder by folder (at least for me with OS9) means the 'linkage'
for some of the contextual menu items is lost. EG ctrl-click on msg and
'find
Received from: Max Gossell
At: 7:33 am (GMT) on Tue, Mar 11, 2003
Yes, so I've understood. But you're a bit more scrupulous than me, and
you seem to know far more about tech stuff. I just wanted a confirmation
that's the folder to backup. When talking about a file that is some 30
times smaller
At 10 mars 2003, 19.59 CET, PowerMail Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Perhaps I messed something up when I directed PowerMail to Spell Catcher
in Preferences? What should the default look like?
It works for me for english and french. It has nothing to with with the
external spell checker
At 10 mars 2003, 20.46 CET, Marlyse Comte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
next to be a desktop clogger, I am an utility hoger
wow, even rimes ;-)
This is such a rare and unique discussion list. Not only do you get a
friendly treatment and valuable tips -- you also get high class poetry...
;-)
When I get som html spam mails I the Show Simple/Full Header commands
are greyed out, and I can't see were the mail comes from. In Entourage
(and most other emailers, I believe) the is a View Source command, but
I can't find it in PowerMail.
What to do?
(My preference settings for HTML Reader
At 11 mars 2003, 03.35 CET, Mikke Byström [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I take it I just back up the PowerMail Files folder then. Right?
Well, yes and no.
Yes, you can do that from time to time. But what I'm asking for is
incremental backup. That is when only the new messages are added to the
How do I do to delete the message but _keep_ the attachment (without
manually move/copy it directly from the finder first)? Is this
possible?
you will need to move the attachment manually from the attachment folder
if you want to keep it but trash the message.
control-click onto the
Mikke Byström on 3/11/03 said
For now, I'd be satisfied if somone knowing told me, that PM supports
exporting messages and grouops of messages to standardized formats that
perhaps can be automated with scripting in order to be imported to PM or
elsewhere.
We did tell you that. You can export
Ever tried DragThing http://www.dragthing.com/ ? I'm like you
myself, but with this app you can have a set of folders in an extra
dock, and then you just drag and drop the files there...
thanks for the tip. yes, I do use dragthing.
next to be a desktop clogger, I am an utility hoger
wow,
Mikke Byström said it like:
Resploder: explodes a Macintosh file into a folder (and back). I'd
definitely use this on a copy. As you always should of course.
http://ljug.com/sw/resploder.html
Most promising of these three despite it's hardcore tactics.
Well, having said the above, let me add
Max Gossell sa:
I take it I just back up the PowerMail Files folder then. Right?
Well, yes and no.
Yes, you can do that from time to time. But what I'm asking for is
incremental backup. That is when only the new messages are added to the
backup. Clearly this needs to be done with another
Thanks Barbara. That's how I set it at first for spam, but thought I
should check before I delete, since sometimes I am a bit too quick on the
draw with deletions... This does seem like the best way though to
maintain a clean view in RMW, since there is no way to easily mark as
read and remove
Thanks for the legwork and research...Maybe PowerMail should just
natively support OS X sound formats.
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kind word alone. -Al Capone
on Tue, 11 Mar 2003 02:16:02 +0100 /Mikke Byström said:
Karel Gillissen
Karel Gillissen sa:
I don't think there is a way at the moment. This is an issue that CTM dev
will need to fix. They need to come up with another method of doing this
since new Macintosh computers can't startup in Mac OS 9. Right now, the
best solution might be to have somebody else who can
At 10 mars 2003, 18.57 CET, Marlyse Comte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just drag the attachment from the message window to my desktop. PM
only moves files from the attachments folder to the trash when
deleting the message. No need to go to the actual attachments folder
in the finder.
Ouch -- I just found out...
Seems like Powermail managed to un-embedd some attachments when I
transferred everything from Entourage. These attachments found their
place in the Attachment Folder inside the PowerMail Files folder before
I changed the attachments to another folder. Some pretty
I just drag the attachment from the message window to my desktop. PM
only moves files from the attachments folder to the trash when
deleting the message. No need to go to the actual attachments folder
in the finder.
ahhh see, I am one of those people who easily collects hundreds of
After having read the backup discussion I'd like to know:
What, exactly, do I have to back up?
I presume it's the database files in the folder PowerMail Files. But I
don't understand one thing: These 4 files* are together about 30 Mb on my
disk, and then there a few other Mb in the other
If you still have your OS9 boot disk use that temporarily. I had my OS9
disk crash so for a month i had to run on OSX only. I used my OS9 boot
disk a couple of times to fix things that OSX wouldn't let me touch. Not
a neat and tidy way but it worked.
Also thanks for the info on Tri-edre. I
Jonathan Greene on 3/10/03 said
Any way to select messages NOT to display in recent mail? I have a JUNK
folder where spam goes and would love to hide that from recent mail views
Posted on Monday by Rick Lecoat:
One way of getting around even the slight chore of clicking the 'delete
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