[ANN] PowerMail 6.2.1b1 available for testing

attention: PowerMail-discuss listmembers Greetings. We are pleased to announce the release of PowerMail 6.2.1b1, available from: This version brings: ? Fix for an occasional SMTP sending problem introduced with the Mavericks networki

Re: Still can't pick up IMAP mail

Jaede, Below is the configuration for IMAP on iCloud: Receiving pane: User account ID: your icloud user id , ie mic...@icloud.com Incoming mail server: imap.mail.me.com [X] Save password: Advanced: [X] Use secure connection (SSL/TLS) [X] Use port: 993 (*) On a dedicated secure port Kind rega

Re: invalid helo cmd - bug or what?

Matthias, all, YES there seems to be a bug in our new networking code for dealing with certain SMTP servers, possibly (but not certainly) having to do with SSL. IF YOU ARE NOT RUNNING Mavericks: PLEASE REVERT TO 6.1.5 for now until we resolve this:

Re(2): [ANN] PowerMail 6.2b5 available for testing [corrected]

Folks, I just reposted it here, and the download does work so please use this link instead of the original: <http://powermail.simplenet.com/pm6.2b5.dmg> Thanks, jean michel/ctm qa On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 10:39:37 -0400, T.L. Miller wrote: >On 9/18/13, at 4:16 PM, CTM in

[ANN] PowerMail 6.2b5 available for testing [corrected]

attention: PowerMail-discuss listmembers Greetings. We are pleased to announce the release of PowerMail 6.21b5, available from: This version brings: ? OS X 10.9 Mavericks networking rewrite and fixes since 6.2b1 ? Latest version of SpamSiev

[ANN] PowerMail 6.2b5 available for testing

attention: PowerMail-discuss listmembers Greetings. We are pleased to announce the release of PowerMail 6.21b5, available from: This version brings: ? OS X 10.9 Mavericks networking rewrite and fixes since 6.2b1Mountain Lion developer buil

PowerMail 6.2b1, now with Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks support !

Greetings from the sweltering Swiss summer, Please be advised that a new version of PowerMail, 6.2b1, is now available for download and testing from: The main feature brought in by this new release is a complete rewrite of our networking code to do

Re: PowerMail and iCloud

Chris, Yes, within the design limits of PowerMail's lightweight IMAP implementation, we use it all the time. Settings are: protocol: IMAP4 User account id:your_main_icloud_name Incoming mail server: imap.mail.me.com Once you mount the inbox, copy messages in it to a loca

Re(2): Address Change

Chris, Please see the private email resent to you from ctm...@mac.com ; this message had indeed been answered to the said day, it appears that your mail server is bouncing messages from our mail server but not from our list server. Kind regards, Chantal Favre On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:28:18 +010

Re: CTMDev

Hello Chris, ctm-i...@ctmdev.com is the right address for us. We have had pretty massive DNS problems lately but these should have been corrected by now. I will be happy to assist you ASAP and research our server-side spam log to see if your message may have been caught there. Kind regards, C

[ANN] PowerMail 6.1.1b2 available for testing

attention: PowerMail-discuss listmembers Greetings. We are pleased to announce the release of PowerMail 6.1.1b2, available from: This version brings: ? OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion developer build compatibility - Quick-looks testing with

Of iCloud and Lotto...

Dear PowerMail users, We have been carefully pondering the consequences on some of your following Apple's drop of POP3 support in iCloud. We certainly are MobileMe users and understand the issue. Let me start with the positioning statement for PowerMail: "An excellent POP3 mail client with bes

re: PowerMail Key will not unlock PM6

Hello, Have you possibly used a webmail interface to retrieve the PMKey file ? Is there a chance you could, in that case, refetch it with a mail client ? Webmail interfaces tend to corrupt PMKeys. Kind regards, Chantal Favre CTM Development SA ctm-i...@ctmdev.com -

Re(4): Fwd: Really need a way to forward HTML messages

Winston, Use Redirect instead of Forward. Redirect will leave the message content as it was. Kind regards, Chantal Favre CTM Development SA ctm-i...@ctmdev.com - "In my first minutes with PowerMail 6, I've already been able

[ANN] PowerMail 6.0.6b1 for testing

attention: PowerMail-discuss listmembers Greetings. We are pleased to announce the release of PowerMail 6.0.6b1, available from: This version: - fixes the systematic bug when attempting a low-level rebuild in 6.0.5 - includes the latest S

Re(6): Deleting Attachments

ng again? >It is a bit a roundabout way, and it will take a lot of time for a large >archive, but it should work, or am I wrong? > >Mirko > >On 22 nov 2010, at 23:24, CTM info wrote: > >> Peter, >> >> On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:31:49 -0500, Peter Lovell wrot

Re(4): Deleting Attachments

Peter, On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:31:49 -0500, Peter Lovell wrote: >I wonder if there's a way to identify orphans? > >Anyone know of one? Perhaps CTM has a suggestion? The behavior is that message moved to PowerMail's mail trash should see their attachments moved to the Finder trash upon emptying P

Fwd: Your personal PowerMail 6 registration info !

Hello Bob, As far as I could tell, this case was closed over two months ago when we sent you your second key. Please see the actual key forwarded to you in separate mail; you asked for a public reply here so the excerpt is snipped below. Our system for issuing licences has been automated for a wh

Re(3): 2 GB limit

Mark, On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:01:20 +, Mark S. P. Smith wrote: >for people trying to work >around the 2GB limit, being asked to buy another application is not a >good answer, IMHO. I can agree to this point of view. There is something we can do here: if a consensus builds that our approach t

Re: 2 GB limit

Hello Paul, Contrary to popular belief, removing the 2GB per database maximum size limit is a considerable endeavour indeed; we have favored two alternate routes instead: - the archiving feature that appeared in PowerMail 6 which makes it practical to reduce the size of an active database while

Re: 2 GB limit

Paul, No, we haven't ceased support or answering, we have tied up amidst releasing new versions of our FoxTrot line of products [and the associated technical answers] and personal issues, it is true that PowerMail support has languished and I apologize for this. It really shouldn't take this long

[to be tested] PowerMail 6.0.5b1

Dear PowerMail-discuss members, CTM Development is pleased to announce the beta release of >> PowerMail 6.0.5b1 > Latest changes - PowerMail 6.0.5b1: - Multi-lingual spell checking: On Mac OS X 10.6, PowerMail now supports the new multi-lingual spe

[ANN] PowerMail 6.0.4

Dear PowerMail-discuss and PowerMail-announce list members, CTM Development is pleased to announce the release of >> PowerMail 6.0.4 > Latest news: - Search speed optimizations - Updated build system - performance gains - 64-bit Spotlight & FoxTrot Search plugi

Re(2): trying to fix pop gmail problems - report, solution in sight

Michael, The only way for us to move forward on this, and we do want to get down to the bottom of what causes this, is to reproduce it on this end and run the application under the source debugger. In order to do so, please send and emptied and compacted set of database files: Address Database M

Re: Bounces

Matthias, On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:11:03 +0900, Powermail wrote: >Hallo, >could someone please remove this guy from the list or configure >LetterRip in way that it doesn't forward bounces. > > - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - > Done. jean michel/ctm qa

Re(2): Anyone at home?

MB, I agree that we do not broadcast what is being implemented in the product, and for a reason: no matter how much you announce that you are going to do, there will always be varying opinions and substantial debate on relevance, priorities and so on. Hence we announce things either when they are

FYI: PowerMail 6.0.4 internal testing

Folks, Further to my message from Saturday just reposted regarding our list and mail server malfunctions (and the obvious negative support perceptions) I would like to mention that, although we have some structural technical limitations in PowerMail that preclude us from fulfilling several of the

Re: Anyone at home?

Beatrix, (FYI - THIS MESSAGE WAS FIRST POSTED ON 13-MAR in response to Beatrix; case in point: it never arrived; seee below): Yes indeed - we're up and running now. We've had pretty intriguing list and mail server issues: the list server is sporadically processing old message,s while our mail que

[ANN] FoxTrot Professional Search 2.5 & server announced

attention: PowerMail-discuss listmembers Greetings, We are pleased to announce the release of PowerMail's sidekick, FoxTrot Professional Search 2.5, available from: One of the primary advantages of PowerMail is its blazing e-mail sea

Re: AppleScripting in PowerMail

Don, Sorry if I may have missed your message regarding scripts. FYI, we have left our former website up and running for cases such as this one, where information had not been migrated over. Check out: for a list of scripts, and

Re(2): Current Version (quite usable ! )

Mark, Isolated case relating to your licence specifically. Please see private e-mail regarding this, thanks. jean michel/ctm qa On Sat, 5 Sep 2009 13:27:16 +0900, Mark Smith wrote: >I have downloaded the current version (6.0.3). It will not except my >existing PMKey, and will only run in Demo

Re(2): why this search failed??

). Cheers, jean michel/ctm qa On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:22:07 +0100, m. osti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >CTM info 10-12-2008: > > >>FoxTrot searches on words by default. If you're looking for >>"stresspoint" you will find it by typing "stresspo*" a

Re: why this search failed??

Marco, FoxTrot searches on words by default. If you're looking for "stresspoint" you will find it by typing "stresspo*" as well. Cheers, jean michel/ctm qa On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:42:32 +0100, m. osti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i did a search - using as key "stresspo" - for a message i receiv

[ANN] PowerMail 6.0 universal released

attention: PowerMail-discuss listmembers Greetings. We are pleased to announce the release of PowerMail 6.0, available from: Now in its 13th continuous year as the consummate alternate client for fetching, managing and searching e-mail, PowerMail 6 offers over

Re: PowerMail 6 vapourware?

Sean, list, Stay tuned... we are up to 6.0a21 right now and looking at beta as a matter of weeks. jean michel/ctm qa On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:37:54 -0400, Sean McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 2008-04-15 MacWorld said in an article: > >"anyone who buys PowerMail after March 31, 2008, will b

Re: reason for zipping zip file

Hi, I dimly recall that what we deemed smart was smart in the days before Zip was implemented... and had to do with encoding rather than compressing. This being said, you don't need to further file it as a bug since we're right at work on PowerMail 6 as we speak and this will should get addressed

Re(2): Wherefore art thou, CTM Dev?

Jay, Not the least, we are up and runnning. We've had an interesting succession of mail server THEN DNS outage, just at the time we're in the process of relasing FoxTrot Pro. As to your question and the question on the list: for reasons we cannot explain, there was mail probably stuck in the List

How the search index rebuild techniques work

e the operation in the PowerMail First Aid dialog which is more thorough as it declares all messages as unindexed before reindexing all. Kind regards, jean michel / ctm qa On Thu, 15 May 2008 11:15:28 +0200, MB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >CTM info sa såhär: > >>Afterwards, th

Re: Database issues

Derry, Doesn't sound too good. Inability to copy the mail database indicates a file-system level problem, first make a backup and then try Disk Utility ! Afterwards, the one file that you can safely delete is "Message Database index" and then try rebuilding this. jean michel/ctm qa On Wed, 14 M

[ANN] PowerMail 5.6.4 universal released

Greetings, We are pleased to announce the release of PowerMail 5.6.4, available free of charge to PowerMail 5 users, from: > POWERMAIL 5.6.4 RELEASE NOTES - APRIL 14TH, 2008

Re: Feature Request: Quick Look support

Marco, Good thinking - this is already in our plans for the future. Cheers, jean michel On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:15:59 +0100, Marco Piovanelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello, > >It would be nice if PowerMail allowed me to preview attachments >of suitable types (pictures, PDF documents, etc.)

PowerMail 5.6.4 to be OS X 10.3.9 compatible

Fellows, FYI, we will be coming out with PowerMail 5.6.4 this week-end which restores 10.3.9 compatibility. I've been busy with FoxTrot and a bit behind on actually releasing this, apologies to those involved. An announcement will be made to the list as soon as it is available. Kind regards, je

Re(3): PM and unexpected "quits"

Bill, On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:02:36 -0600, Bill Schjelderup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm wondering if this is a widespread Powermail issue, and if so, >perhaps CTMDEV will spend a bit of time on solving it. > >If not, well, then I'll just keep moving forward hoping that some >combination of upd

[ANN] PowerMail 5.6.3 universal released

Greetings, We are pleased to announce the release of PowerMail 5.6.3, available free of charge to PowerMail 5 users, from: > POWERMAIL 5.6.3 RELEASE NOTES - MARCH 2ND, 2008 -

[ANN] PowerMail 5.6.2 universal released

Greetings, We are pleased to announce the release of PowerMail 5.6.2, available free of charge to PowerMail 5 users, from: > POWERMAIL 5.6.2 RELEASE NOTES - FEBRUARY 12TH, 2008 -

[ANN] PowerMail 5.6.1 universal released

Greetings, We are pleased to announce the release of PowerMail 5.6.1, available free of charge to PowerMail 5 users, from: > POWERMAIL 5.6.1 RELEASE NOTES - DECEMBER 13TH, 2007 -

Re: Keychain Bug [was: Password (was DNS restored for PowerMail's ...]

Matthias, We are dealing with a large number of support e-mails right now. The reason we did not do an external test was the pressure to release a new version for Mac OS X 10.5, as we had no access to it before release - not a good idea, but that's how things happened. Expect a version 5.6.1 befo

DNS restored for PowerMail's and FoxTrot's domains

All, Just as we are in the final stages of releasing PowerMail 5.6, a complete DNS server meltdown removed us from the face of the earth for about 48 hours. For reasons unexplained, the network is up again. Expect possible disruptions as we try and determine the root cause and solution to this -

Re: PowerMail(TM) Leopard issues...

Hello all, A quick note to let you know that we are committed to making sure PowerMail 5.6, which contains undisclosed improvements, will be fully qualified for 10.5 which is now our main operating system in house. Cheers, jean michel / ctm qa On Fri, 2 Nov 2007 18:05:02 -0400, John <[EMAIL PRO

Re: PowerMail and IMAP

Curtis, Yes, there are indeed limitations. We position PowerMail as a full-blown POP3 e-mail client with high speed indexing, but with lightweight IMAP support i.e. for occasional use. The limitations you see are those of our design goals. Cheers, jean michel/ctm qa On Sun, 6 May 2007 18:16:03

[ANN] PowerMail 5.5.3 universal released

Greetings. We are pleased to announce the release of PowerMail 5.5.3, available from: > POWERMAIL 5.5.3 RELEASE NOTES - JANUARY 22ND, 2007 ---

(disregard one paragraph from notification e-mail)

Folks, Please disregard the paragraph in the PM 5.2.2b3 notification e-mail regarding the merger of the PowerMail-testing list, since that text was only destined to be sent to the former members of that list and is of no relevance to current powermail-discuss members. Thanks, jean michel/ctm qa

[powermail-discuss] PowerMail 5.2.2b3 private testing seed

Greetings, PowerMail 5.5.2b3 is now available for download and testing from: Please make a backup of your PowerMail Files folder before installing this. Also, upon launching, 5.5.2b3 will prompt you to choose which folder you want to use; sel

[ANN] PowerMail 5.5.1 universal released

Greetings. We are pleased to announce the release of PowerMail 5.5.1, available from: > POWERMAIL 5.5.1 RELEASE NOTES - NOVEMBER 9TH, 2006 ---

Re(2): 2GB limit: the Official Pronouncement

Mikael, One good way to reconsolidate databases is to export each of them in PowerMail Exchange format (one single export for all folders) and then drag all the files from the finder to the folder list in the consolidating database. And then during the import, you have free time to do something (

Re(2): 2GB limit: the Official Pronouncement

tions, alas that means less waiting time. Cheers, jean michel On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 01:36:32 +0200, Christian Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >CTM info wrote: > >> >>Instructions on creating the e

Re(2): 2GB limit: the Official Pronouncement

Just one more comment: On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 17:20:20 -0400, Michael Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If the database were tied into Spotlight, then I could >search my Powermail and Archive right in it -- only one place to look. In our FoxTrot-leaning lyricism, I did forget to mention what Michae

Re(2): 2GB limit: the Official Pronouncement

Steve, On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:40:41 -0500, Steve Abrahamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I still have no idea *how* someone is supposed to get to a point where >they have two user environments or databases or whatever in PM, short of >just starting a new one from scratch (which really doesn't do a

2GB limit: the Official Pronouncement

Ladies and Gentlemen, In the process of moving PowerMail to XCode and Intel, we discussed long and hard the matter of maximum database size and have decided, for technical and philosophical reasons, that the right thing to do was to keep the 2GB limit. First, a foreword: our strong feeling is tha

Re(2): Kanji (was: Problems with Attachments in 5.5)

Mark, Don't throw the towel in just yet on this, we'll have to investigate. jean michel/ctm qa On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:28:39 +0900, Mark S. P. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >At Wed, 25 Oct 2006 09:34:53 -0400, A-NO-NE Music wrote: > >>Matthias Schmidt / 2006/10/25 / 09:00 AM wrote: >> >>>I th

Re: 5.5 refuses to 'retrieve completely' a partial message

Sean, Try displaying the Online Status column in the View Options... dialog for the In Tray. Does this display that the message you want to download is still on the server ? If not for whatever reason, you would indeed be stuck with a broken envelope. Also, make sure you try to select Retrieve Co

Re(2): 256 User License (was: Re: PowerMail 5.5 final candidate)

Marco, On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:56:55 +0200, marco osti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >gotcha marco, 1 license on my G5 PPC but 256 on the macbook Seems like a multiple-personality disorder on Intel, about 128 per core. I tell you, what endians do you... Seriously now: this is fixed for 5.5. Cheers

[ANN] PowerMail 5.5 final candidate

Ladies and gentlemen, Please be advised that we are making available, on an exclusive basis for members of the PowerMail-discuss list ONLY, the following 5.5 final candidate from: There are no release notes as of yet for the final version

Re: PM Discussion list

Sead, Jérôme had forwarded your manual unsubscribe request last week and I looked into it immediately. However, having found that you are positively, absolutely not registered under: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or any entry with your first, last or complete name Sead Lejlic, I had ass

[ANN] PowerMail Universal 5.5b2 now available

Dear PowerMail user, The PowerMail team is pleased to announce that a new version is now available for download and testing from: > PowerMail Universal 5.5b2 (public beta) change