Re: Powermail support (Was: Re: Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread)

2007-09-21 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Bernd, Am/On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:07:57 +0200 schrieb/wrote Bernd Fröhlich: >Winston Weinmann schrieb: >> While I love PowerMail, it has some bugs in it that are like beta level >> software. CTM should be embarrassed, and probably is. >> > >That pretty much confirms my suspicion. I was thinking ab

Re: Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread

2007-09-21 Thread Steve Abrahamson
Winston, Thank you for your testing on this, as it certainly pinpoints the point of failure. Not what I'd wanted to find, but glad to have found an answer. See my post to Barbara's following this for more. Just wanted to thank you for the detailed testing work you did to uncover this very odd fla

Re: Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread

2007-09-21 Thread Steve Abrahamson
Barbara, Wow, is that ugly - and yet, I cannot help but agree with your conclusion that this is actually the simplest way to manage this. And it's ponderous, to say the least. Sadly, it leaves me feeling like PM is keeping me hostage, and I really, really don't like to feel that way. My feeling i

Re: Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread

2007-09-21 Thread Richard Davis
If you reach the 2 GB limit you can make another user. Wouldn't be much different from searching your mail archive with another mail app.

Re: Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread

2007-09-21 Thread Steve Abrahamson
On 9/21/07 at 7:28 AM, Richard Davis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: >If you reach the 2 GB limit you can make another user. > >Wouldn't be much different from searching your mail archive >with another mail app. I can have PowerMail and Mail.app running at the same time; I cannot have both users runnin

Re(2): Powermail support (Was: Re: Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread)

2007-09-21 Thread Winston Weinmann
Matthias - With all due respect, I think it is more accurate to say that the flaws which PowerMail has (such as not being able to print HTML mail) do not bother /you/. That does not mean PowerMail does not have flaws, nor does it excuse CTM for not acknowledging or addressing those flaws if they a

Re: Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread

2007-09-21 Thread Jeremy Hughes
Steve Abrahamson (21/9/07, 14:05) said: >On 9/21/07 at 7:28 AM, Richard Davis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > >>If you reach the 2 GB limit you can make another user. >> >>Wouldn't be much different from searching your mail archive >>with another mail app. > >I can have PowerMail and Mail.app running

Re: Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread

2007-09-21 Thread Steve Abrahamson
On 9/21/07 at 3:44 PM, Jeremy Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: >Steve Abrahamson (21/9/07, 14:05) said: > >>On 9/21/07 at 7:28 AM, Richard Davis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: >> >>>If you reach the 2 GB limit you can make another user. >>> >>>Wouldn't be much different from searching your mail archive

Re: Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread

2007-09-21 Thread Michael J . Hußmann
Jeremy Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > It's disappointing that no one from CTM has commented on this, or on the > basic problem of the 2 GB limit. > > The last official comment I saw about the 2 GB problem was that they're > not planning to do anything to address it. I suppose the 2 GB limit

Re: Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread

2007-09-21 Thread Barbara Needham
Michael J. Hußmann on 9/21/07 said >Jeremy Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> It's disappointing that no one from CTM has commented on this, or on the >> basic problem of the 2 GB limit. >> >> The last official comment I saw about the 2 GB problem was that they're >> not planning to do anythin

Re: Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread

2007-09-21 Thread Jeremy Hughes
Barbara Needham (21/9/07, 17:13) said: >I have 700 MB since 2002 but that is after compacting the database. And I >do not get huge volumes of e-mail. I have 1.15 GB - but that is after compacting the database earlier today. Before compacting, it was 1.7 GB. I need to compact once a month to avoi

Re: Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread

2007-09-21 Thread PowerMail Engineering
Winston Weinmann wrote: >In every case PowerMail had this for both messages: >Status: U The "status" header is not a standard one (it is not specified in RFC 2822). I suppose it is used to indicate the status of the message on the server. It is not set by PowerMail. And mail seems to ignore i

Re: Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread

2007-09-21 Thread Steve Abrahamson
On 9/21/07 at 5:27 PM, Jeremy Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: >Barbara Needham (21/9/07, 17:13) said: > >>I have 700 MB since 2002 but that is after compacting the database. And I >>do not get huge volumes of e-mail. > >I have 1.15 GB - but that is after compacting the database earlier >today. Be

Re: Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread

2007-09-21 Thread Tim Lapin
Barbara Needham wrote: Michael J. Hußmann on 9/21/07 said Jeremy Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: ... my message database is still under 200 MB. As you can guess, I am not at all concerned about the 2 GB limit, as I am not likely to ever hit that 2 GB limit during my lifetime. Maybe that's

powermail-discuss Digest #2695 - 09/21/07

2007-09-21 Thread PowerMail discussions
powermail-discuss Digest #2695 - Friday, September 21, 2007 Re: Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread by "Steve Abrahamson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Re(2): Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread by "Winston Weinmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Re(3): Exporting from Pow

Re: Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread

2007-09-21 Thread Barbara Needham
Tim Lapin on 9/21/07 said >Barbara Needham wrote: >> Michael J. Hußmann on 9/21/07 said >> >>> Jeremy Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >>> >... > >>> my message database is still >>> under 200 MB. As you can guess, I am not at all concerned about the 2 GB >>> limit, as I am not likely to ever hit

Re: Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread

2007-09-21 Thread Tim Lapin
Barbara Needham wrote: Tim Lapin on 9/21/07 said Clearly, an email package with strengths in one place (eg searching) and weaknesses in other places (eg smaller database sizes) needs to be put into the context of the expected use. Well, huge is anything that makes your database get "too bi

Re: Powermail support (Was: Re: Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread)

2007-09-21 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Winston, you are wining here around on the list since you subscribed. Understand Powermail is a textmailer, so if you want to have html use something else. Powermail is not a 1200$ product, it is shareware and in this price-range. Recently I wrote a E-Mail implementation for a database and I teste

Re: Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread

2007-09-21 Thread Matthias Schmidt
How many mails do keep? How do you get so many mails? I receive around 200 to 300 mails per day. But most of the mails are from technical lists. All mails from lists, which don't contain important information, I delete at once - they are still on some webarchives - In the beginning of the year, I a

Re(2): Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread

2007-09-21 Thread Winston Weinmann
Jérôme - Thank you for your work around. I will admit, however, that I do not fully follow the method for changes using Text Wrangler. What do these mean: >Search For: [x] Use Grep >[x] Muti-File Search (maybe this would be clear if I had a copy of Text Wrangler)? Can other text editors be used?

Re: Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread

2007-09-21 Thread Barbara Needham
Winston Weinmann on 9/21/07 said >Jérôme - > >Thank you for your work around. I will admit, however, that I do not >fully follow the method for changes using Text Wrangler. What do these mean: >>Search For: [x] Use Grep > >>[x] Muti-File Search >(maybe this would be clear if I had a copy of Text W

Re(2): Powermail support (Was: Re: Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread)

2007-09-21 Thread Winston Weinmann
Matthias - I think you have missed my point. I also think you have overlooked at least an occasional attempt to be helpful. As to html, I am not asking for anything new. I am asking for an existing feature to work as expected (printing). How many other Mac programs do you know of which can't pri