Re: PowerMail lost all my messages, recovery help requested

2006-06-09 Thread Douglas Carnall
At Thu, 8 Jun 2006 18:16:05 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>I too was bitten by this identical situation and I finally bit the dust >>and got hold of PowerMail Salvage. It cost me $52 in total and it was >>worth every penny. What's so great about a proprietary mail program that trashes your mes

Re: if I have really deleted all my mail I will just kill myself

2006-04-07 Thread Douglas Carnall
At Fri, 7 Apr 2006 08:38:09 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >May I suggest that you use a back-up system? Quite so. I'd got in a bit of a jam with lack of disk headroom, and had just bought a new firewire hard drive to back up to. I wanted to just copy the contents of my hard drives to it and be

Re: if I have really deleted all my mail I will just kill myself

2006-04-07 Thread Douglas Carnall
At Fri, 7 Apr 2006 11:49:48 +0900 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >The one with the last modification date will be the one. >It might be called Message Database.old, that's the one you're looking for. Whoops. I am an idiot, though fortunately no longer suicidal. I had three Powermail folders on my har

Re: if I have really deleted all my mail I will just kill myself

2006-04-07 Thread Douglas Carnall
Fri, 7 Apr 2006 03:28:54 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >This is a major disaster. > >Please help Tried launching Powermail with cmmd + opt keys depressed as per This did not work. D. -- dougie carnall +44 (0)207 241 1255 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

if I have really deleted all my mail I will just kill myself

2006-04-07 Thread Douglas Carnall
Hi, I'm using Powermail 4.2.1 on OS X 10.3.9 I was performing a long overdue backup, selected "Compact database". Powermail crashed at the end of this lengthy process (15mins) Now when I launch Powermail it seems to have reverted to an early version (2004?) of the database, all my folders, fil

Re: Big font for bad sight

2005-10-21 Thread Douglas Carnall
At Fri, 21 Oct 2005 05:48:42 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >OK, this is the only good reason for me to use HTML mail ! Doh! The whole point of using plain text in emails is to make no assumptions about what kind of mail browser your recipient is using. If they want to render your text at 96 poi

Re: FINALLY: PM ARCHIVES!

2005-10-08 Thread Douglas Carnall
At Sat, 8 Oct 2005 01:36:32 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I think it is a >disservice to Powermail owners NOT to archive this. Hear hear! I'd quite like to delete my own personal archive (merely a filter in a folder named 'powermail'), plus we'd get the goodness of Google. D. -- Dougie Carn

Re: Still Love PowerMail but...

2005-03-08 Thread Douglas Carnall
At Tue, 8 Mar 2005 02:02:06 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Must norms always be static and prevent natural evolution? If something works, is efficient and cheap it does not need to "evolve." Such biological metaphors in computing are tempting but possibly misleading. There are lots of people o

Re: Love PowerMail but...

2005-03-07 Thread Douglas Carnall
At Mon, 7 Mar 2005 09:47:10 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >There are just as many reasons for not having HTML emails as there are to >having it, but end the end it's a religious war. It's a war about standards. () Text based email is a perfectly good standard that

Powermail 4.2.1 (OS9 - OS X) import problem

2004-10-11 Thread Douglas Carnall
Hi, Recently I migrated to Powermail 4.2.1 on OS X. (I had used Powermail 4.2.1 on a G3 Powerbook running OS 9.0.4, but a motherboard problem on that machine meant I had to remove the hard drive and hook it up in an enclosure as an external FireWire drive on a G4 under OS X) So I want to import

Re: 4.2.1 licensing issue

2004-10-09 Thread Douglas Carnall
Fri, 8 Oct 2004 13:20:34 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sorry if this is an FAQ. I am a happy Powermail 4.2.1 user, or was >>until today, when the laptop (OS 9.0.4) I was running it on died >>mysteriously. (a power supply issue?) I also have a G4 running X and >>would like to use Powermail on this. >> >>