I've just managed to lose some PM scripts during a reformat/install.cMy
particular need is the 'send again' script but it would be good to know where
they are archived now - Wayne Brisette's archive seems to have gone with the
demise of mac.com.
-- Charles
Karsten
CTM has a site collecting all those old scripts:
http://securessl.ctmdev.com/support/main.php?S=toolsPROD=powermail
Thanks - invaluable for a script dummy.
-- Charles
I'm trying to find the script archive. I think that it was here
http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/powermail.html. But that page is now closed.
Does anyone know if the archive still exists and where I can find it? Right
noew I'm looking for the delete aged messages script but it would be good to
Try this:
http://securessl.ctmdev.com/support/main.php?S=toolsPROD=powermail
Thanks. Couldn't find the link on the main CTMDEV site.
-- Charles
Has anyone been able to send and receive mail to/from a
Hotmail account using PowerMail?
Yes without problem - using the same settings as for any other address.
-- Charles
I'm using:- Incoming: pop3.live.com
Use secure connection (SSL/TLS) Use port 995
On a dedicated secure port - I've also checked Always use
APOP suthentication
I don't use any of these 'Advanced' settings, only those that handle mail size
and retention of retrieved messages on the
On 25 February Peter Lovell plov...@mac.com wrote:
I'm also having a *lot* of problem with PM not dealing with
multi-part MIME content boundaries, such as
Content-type: multipart/alternative;
boundary*0=;
boundary*1=000
I get
On 2 September Peter Lovell wrote:
I'm trying to track down an issue that started recently.
I'm afraid that I can't offer a solution. I have been having this
problem for a while now, generally the message in question does not
offer a 'View message in web browser' alternative. If I want to read
Jérôme - CTM Engineering wrote:
PowerMail does not currently support international domain
names or email addresses.
Almost as annoying is PM's inability to transfer accented characters to
the 'Display Name' field in is Address book. Indeed entering an accented
character stops the filling of
On 13 March Beatrix Willius wrote:
Is anyone at home at this list?
Yes though not too many I guess from the level of list traffic.
Support isn't working, submitting a bug doesn't get a result.
A fairly constant complaint it seems and not good for CTM's reputation.
Sending a message to the
Jeremy Hughes said:
another problem with the monolithic file format is that
incremental backups (Retrospect, Time Machine, whatever)
have to back up the entire database each time it changes.
I'm not sure that this is always so. I've been using QRecall http://
www.qrecall.com/ for some time
On 12 April I wrote:
I'm having difficulty getting MM to connect to a POP account
with a French ISP and would appreciate help, as I can get to
the account easily with both Thunderbird and MyPopBarrier
to which Mikael offered some advice.
I have, I believe, now cracked the problem.
In
Mikael wrote:
Listen in on the stream with Net Tool Box or similar and
send the results to the list. Sans passwords and other not
needed info of course.
I'm afraid that you are pushing me well beyond my competence. I have
downloaded Net Tool Box but I can't get the detail required,
I'm having difficulty getting MM to connect to a POP account with a
French ISP and would appreciate help, as I can get to the account easily
with both Thunderbird and MyPopBarrier.
The ISP offers POP, IMAP and webmail access. I have configured PM
exactly as I have the other two programmes, all
Richard Hart wrote:
I thought there were backup apps that actually could
backup only the data that was different in the file.
Not that I'm aware of. Incremental backup is for FILES that
have changed, not data inside a file.
You might like to have a look at QRecall http://www.qrecall.com
On 9 May Barbara Needham wrote:
On the other hand, I turn on IMAP in PowerMail when I need
it [for .mac mail]
I use my .mac account as a POP3 one. Works fine. Any advantage to using
it as IMAP other than access to one's Sent mail from several machines?
My young grandson accesses his .mac
Mikael Byström wrote:
What about OS X services? Noone have done that?
Yes - both GPGDropThing and Gpg Tools show in Services. And they can
be made to work but neither is as smooth as PGP was in OS 9.
-- Charles
PM 5.5.3 - Intel iMac - OS 10.4.8
I have background indexing turned on and I'm using a relatively quick
machine. My message database is around 90 Mb, and when I do search PM
can take more than 5 minutes to 'sort and optimize' my database. For
this reason I don't search very often (perhaps every two or three
days). Looking in my
I have recently started getting this message from the smtp server that I use:
'Unexpected error on sasl.smtp.pobox.com
Class='NetC',what=1,when=6,err=268435556'
Ir arises after the email appears to have been sent (the blue bar is
full). PM will generally wait for several minutes before
I have always used the Recent Mail window. In the current version, I
observe that I can get two well-separated emails highlighted at the same
time although I have only chosen one. The second highlight sometimes
stays in the same relative position in the window; this means that it
moves as I move
On 10 October Alan Harper wrote:
Open PowerMail's address book, open a contact in the address
book, click on an email address for that contact and Copy. A
message pops up: An error occurred: Error -4989.
Can't reproduce it on my machine. That sequence of keystrokes works
perfectly.
--
I'm finding that 5.5b2 stops 'hiding' some hours after my log-in. To
explain further, in PM the 'Hide Others' command works OK all the time.
After I've been logged in for a while, a 'Hide Others' command issued
in, say, Firefox, hides all the other programme windows except PM. And
at that time
I'm finding that 5.5b2 stops 'hiding' some hours after my
log-in.
Do you have Application Enhancer installed by any chance? I
found that this had exactly that effect.
I do, thanks for the tip-off. I'll add PM to AE's Exclude list.
-- Charles
PM 5.5b2 - Intel iMac - OS 10.4.7
On 2 August Jay S. wrote:
... there are ways to archive emails in PowerMail, and I'm
sure that somebody who has done that will contribute to this
thread.
I got into the habit of archiving my emails with the arrival of Emailer
2. I use two methods, one 'direct' and the other 'indirect'.
The
In other words, which file contains the user code?
AFAIK the file is called PMKey and it is located in the PowerMail
Additions subfolder.
I'm afraid that I probably can't help with your main problem. I have an
ISDN connection through a Sagem Geoport adpter. A peculiarity of my set-
up is that
On 7 July FH Sainct wrote:
Please read my entire message. POPmonitor can delete messages on the
server without affecting what has already been downloaded by your email
client (e.g., PowerMail). You highlight the messages you want to delete
(selectively) and click on the Delete icon (a
On 5 July George Slusher wrote:
It has a fairly simple spam filter that will either
internally mark suspicious emails or delete them
automatically. I've chosen to have POPmonitor mark the
emails, as there are some mistakes (e.g., commercial email
that I want). I then choose which to delete
Thank you cheshirekat for making these scripts available.
On 25 June Subhash wrote:
No, one cannot download the text file. I tried the script
TextSelection2NewSmileDoc.sF452, that works. Why give the text file for
download? Just upload the .txt version without .hqx and everything should
work
On 17 November Jérôme wrote:
You can try to compact your index (from the file/database menu),
preferably after you have emptied the trash so deleted messages will be
removed from the index, but I think the problem is elsewhere... Maybe you
need to allocate more memory for PowerMail?
Having
On 17 November Jérôme wrote:
So if you have received thousands of messages since the
last time you performed a search, you can have a delay of a
few seconds to prepare the index before searching. What do
you call very slow?
I receive no more than 150 messages/day and keep perhaps 30. I guess I
Using OS 9.0.4 and PM 4.2.1, I have checked the preference Automatically
index messages in the background yet every time I want to search the
message database, PM sorts and optimises its index. Depending on the
frequency of my searches, this can makes searches very slow (almost back
to Emailer
add 1 line to your existing filter (for your wife): after the resend
action add 'set status to unread' - this should bold it again. not sure
if it will show in the recent window (I doubt it though), but the folder
for your wife should show bold.
Thank you, I hadn't found these Mail Action
I have PM set-up to open the Recent Mail window whenever I get new mail.
I also have a Mail action which files mail addressed to my wife in her
folder on my machine and then redirects it to her own real address. As
she uses her computer less than I do, she asks me to let her know if/when
mail
On 12 September Scott at HobbyLink Japan wrote:
The only reasons for sticking with OS 9 or earlier at this point are
inertia, psychological resistance to change, or unwillingness to invest
even a modest sum of money
[SNIP]
What's that? You're still using an old Mac that won't even run OS
This is probably a simple case of my not reading the manual properly - if
so, apologies. By the way I'm running PowerMail 4.2 under OS 9.0.4 so
must use PM's own address book.
When someone already in my address book advises an address change, I
control-click on the name and am offered the
I'm trying to perform another Emailer 'trick' - to delete folders/
subfolders without emptying the mail trash - but can't find a way to make
this happen.
I like to keep about 10 days of rubbish in my trash just in case I get
hungry or, more likely, have trashed something I find I need to
On 2 September cheshirekat wrote:
It's in the Account options. You were probably looking in the PowerMail
application preferences.
Setup Mail Accounts... Receiving (See options on lower half of pane.)
Thanks. You're right, I was looking in the wrong place.
Nice to hear a kat from the
I'm sure that this info' is available somewhere but I've failed to find
it, apologies in advance. I want to delete attachments and messages that
have only been partially downloaded. How do I do this?
In Emailer it was simple, I just marked every message that I didn't want
and it was deleted
On 19 August David Gordon wrote:
I'm running the latest Beta 4.2b3/final candidate (may or
may not be relevant..)
I have a folder with 0 messages, -1 unread. The folder
icon is bold suggesting I have unread messages.
Same version, I have one folder whose icon did not bold when it received
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