, nothing
changes, it still wants the admin password each time PM opens.
I don’t know if it’s relevant, but she’s using about a 5 year old iMac with PM
version 6.2.1 build 4668 and OS X 10.10.4
Thanks for your patience.
Cheers,
John
On Aug 6, 2015, at 12:54 AM, PowerMail Engineering jer
The password has been typed in any number of times, Disk Utility and Disk
Warrior were just run, as well as a Drive Genius defrag. All with no change in
the situation.
Thanks,
John
On Aug 5, 2015, at 12:05 AM, PowerMail Engineering jer...@ctmdev.com wrote:
John Maylone wrote
This is clearly not the issue. It asks for her admin password every time she
opens PowerMail. The computer is hers alone, no user account switching is
involved.
Thanks for the response.
John
On Aug 4, 2015, at 2:27 AM, PowerMail Engineering jer...@ctmdev.com wrote:
John Maylone wrote
Thanks for the suggestion, Winston, but no luck with this solution, either.
Your time is very much appreciated.
Cheers,
John
On Aug 3, 2015, at 8:08 PM, Winston Weinmann weinm...@mindspring.com wrote:
This is a guess, but I wonder if PowerMail is trying to store login
information
My wife is a PowerMail user. Every time she opens her PowerMail, she gets this
message: PowerMail wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this.”
Does anyone know what it is and how to make it stop?
Thanks for any advice,
John Maylone
I just bought PM6 for my wife but the PM Key that I was emailed will not work
using either of the prescribed methods. Is there another way?
Thanks for any help.
John
No, it came directly to my Apple Mail.
John
On Feb 26, 2012, at 2:26 PM, CTM info wrote:
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
?
Any ideas, suggestions greatly appreciated,
John
On Jul 19, 2011, at 11:26, Mirko Kranenburg wrote:
Any insights in the outlook for PowerMail under Lion?
It's been working fine for me in the developer seeds. But since it's an
old Carbon app, it doesn't support some of the new features
I got a series of errors, one for each database
component that needed rebuilding. In each case, the error codes were
the same:
Class-DB what=100 err=130
I have a similar issue as Don had, but worse. I woke up to find
Powermail locked up. It would not quit and I needed to do a force quit.
Upon
On 19-Nov-10, at 11:59 AM, Bob Parks wrote:
Please reply publicly to this list, just to let us know someone is
actually there!
Bob Parks
They are around, Bob. We get occasional responsive missives...
--
John Snippe
clear .txt files, so the OS itself could search within the email
content.
--
John Snippe
On 9-Nov-10, at 9:31 PM, Sean McBride wrote:
Which email client are you all switching to? I'm not sure which to
choose
Currently using mail.app, but don't like it. I may try mailsmith.
--
John Snippe
On 5-Nov-10, at 3:13 PM, Paul Schneider wrote:
Since I didn't get any reply to my mail from 22.10.2010, I now repeat
my question:
Are there plans to give up the 2 GB limit?
P
I saw the reply to that email...
Synopsis:
1: no
2: use archive feature
--
John Snippe
locations and
only had one PM license (and didn't want to buy a second). That 'part
time' finally ended up being full-time... I now no longer use PM.
Still miss some of it's features, but one gets over such things ;)
--
John Snippe
) tend
to be so primitive, and lack control.
Anyone here have experience with Mailsmith?
--
John Snippe
department did get through to me this AM with a multi-
license promo coupon... thanks, Chantal ;-)
--
John Snippe
are absolutely right. I could use Coda to browse my
email ;-)
Do you know if there is a trick to getting Mailsmith to resolve
aliases? I am attempting to store the 'user dababase' outside the
default location, and the docs say this is possible, but so far no
joy...
--
John Snippe
I filled in the form asking for a promo code for multi-license
discounting on the ctmdev website, but nobody seems to be listening...
are they on holidays?
--
John Snippe
and that
inherent risk of corruption. Yes/no?
--
John Snippe
On 7-Jul-10, at 1:30 AM, MB wrote:
Here's one: http://www.mail-archive.com/powermail-
disc...@ctmdev.com/
Thanks
--
John Snippe
: is it possible to have separate databases on a single install
for different email accounts?
Does this even make sense to you? It does to me, but I fear my
explanation may be somewhat lacking...
--
John Snippe
1: if this interests you, please sign in via this link... we both
benefit
New (well, new again) to this list... it's been quite a few years at
this point, I guess.
Anyhow... I do not remember: is there an archive of past posts to
this list?
--
John Snippe
other application defaults to All and
PowerMail has defaulted to All in the near past.
Thank you in advance, John Payne
MacBook Pro 2.16
10.4.8
PowerMail 5.5.2
HP LaserJet 1200 series printer
~~~
Gotham Graphix
540-887-0015
www.gothamgraphix.com
#1 - I have a gmail account and I forgot the password. The only place
that has the correct password is my powermail settings. How can I
retrieve my password from powermail in order to log in to gmail and
change some of the settings there?
#2 - I received the mailing for Powermail 6 beta and I
opened it up again and started a low level database
rebuild. It crashed while doing that. Her PM runs, but there is
obviously a problem. Where do we go from here?
Thanks for any help.
John
opened it up again and started a low level database
rebuild. It crashed while doing that. Her PM runs, but there is
obviously a problem. Where do we go from here?
Thanks for any help.
John
-submit the
answer.
Thanks for any help.
John
Roland,
Open Apple Mail preferences, the General window, and set your
preferred e-mail reader there. Kind goofy, but it works.
Cheers,
John
On Feb 20, 2008, at 12:40 PM, Roland Kayser wrote:
Hi,
each time I log myself out, Apple Mail makes itself default e-mail
program. How can I
Has anyone set Powermail up to handle Gmail? I've used most of the
possible configurations listed on the Gmail page, but none of them work
(they're all about the same anyway). Any success stories out there?
John
Long Beach, CA
Thank you! The dedicated secure port option did the trick.
John
Has anyone set Powermail up to handle Gmail? I've used most of the
possible configurations listed on the Gmail page, but none of them work
(they're all about the same anyway). Any success stories out there?
John
Long Beach, CA
Let me ask a different question here that may help me sort out my mess:
What is the DEFAULT location and name of the PM 5.5 message database?
I don't recall ever changing those things from the defaults.
Regards,
John
On Nov 14, 2007, at 8:22 PM, T.L. Miller wrote:
On 11/14/07, at 9
for the embarrassed old guy will be greatly appreciated.
John
, BTW, has worked for me BEFORE) and here I am
staring another big loss in the face.
Maybe this will help someone solve your problem.
I can only hope that this is the case. Thanks again to you and all
for replying.
Cheers,
John
Since SuperDuper is not compatible w/ Leopard yet, I did a CCC
apparent problems as a result of the upgrade to Leopard.
BTW, I'm still stumped here.
Thanks for replying!
Cheers,
John
Your most recent database should be in your USER folder NOT the
Applications folder.
Friday, November 2, 2007 at 6:04 PM*Ocean City* Standard Time
Hi Paul,
I'm not on Leopard, but as you predicted, the usual road bumps are
rearing their ugly heads. This, on PowerMail(TM) in the OSX forum:
next problem was with PowerMail and passwords. This was fixed by
using
10.4.8
POP mail account
No Safari beta
This is very disappointing because I’ve been forced to begin using
Apple’s Mail which I rather dislike. I began using Power Mail because
it was very close to Claris Emailer which I loved.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Many thanks in advance! John
fine again,
fingers crossed.
Cheers. John
~~~
Gotham Graphix
540-887-0015
www.gothamgraphix.com
generates the same error.
Apple mail works and is able to connect and download the mail.
Does anyone know how to get Powermail to work for this kind of connection?
Thanks,
jrh
John R. Hopper
However, nslookup is able to find the correct IP address, and replacing
the hostname with the IP address generates the same error.
Apple mail works and is able to connect and download the mail.
Does anyone know how to get Powermail to work for this kind of connection?
Thanks,
jrh
John R. Hopper
My system clock is set to 24-hour mode (00-23) and I have customized
date formats. Powermail has always seemed to respect this - The date
sent column correctly matches the system settings (both dates and
times), the short headers on mail messages (I'm using 3 pane - long list
view mode) correctly
. . . oh well, I know it's not PowerMail so you don't need
to spend forever on this.
Any suggestions appreciated though, otherwise I will eventually do a
full os reinstall when I have time to get clean again.
I appreciate all the support.
John
*long ago*, PM did support PGP, it was even stated on their website. I
presume this was through applescripts. But while I've dreamed to see it
again and in a reasonable user-friendly way, the PGP interface seems to
have silently disappeared.
Doesn't Services work under Tiger, John? That's what I
Yes, I understand, agree, and applaud PowerMail for taking this stance.
Was just asking. Thanks, John
9/16/05 Rick Lecoat issued the following and I have taken literary
license to pass it along on a Need to Know Basis . . . ?
snipped if you need to *send* HTML email then PowerMail
Just wondering out loud.
I want to incorporate an in-line graphic into one of my albeit text
signatures, which probably by the looks of the title text signatures
means just that and only that, i.e. text only, no graphics.
But still asking, for example, if I wanted to configure a signature for
Apple's mail.app has a feature whereby when you select a message all the
other related threads get highlighted automatically, thus showing the
user some history. Does PowerMail do this and I'm just missing it?
Failure is human. To pick up and start again is divine. This is how we
learn. Just
I finally got mine to work...after rebuilding the schedule for a
fourth time. I had previously had it set up the way I wanted it.it
just quit working for some strange reason shortly after I did a clean re-
install of Tiger.
John
Derry Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
PowerMail
To make things a bit more confusing, it WILL send if I use the
connection/send waiting messages method. The schedules don't run
automatically, and if I initiate the connection, it will receive but not
send, and clicking the send button on a composed mail will not send either.
John
[EMAIL
processed data at a much
slovwer rate.
Cheers,
John
I had a .Mac account when they were free and dropped it when I had
to start paying for it.
. As PGP 8 won't work under Tiger, and PGP
9.0.1 Beta 2 doesn't support Applescript yet, you'll not find much joy in
Tigerland.
Hope this helps someone out there!
--
John Keegan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://RackShare.com
I was wondering if there is an actual signature file in
Powermail? I would like to clear my signature entries
out but would also like to save them to a text file
if possible for future use.
Has anyone used the new PGP 9 with PowerMail in Tiger? The old
Applescripts for encryption and decryption don't seem to work on this
new version of PGP...
Anyone have any ideas about scripting PGP 9 with Powermail? Are there
any facilities for PGP/Powermail integration?
--
John Keegan
[EMAIL
Has anyone used the new PGP 9 with PowerMail in Tiger? The old
Applescripts for encryption and decryption don't seem to work on this
new version of PGP...
--
John Keegan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://RackShare.com
Just as I thought, but had to make sure of the facts from
the PowerMail users... thanks for the info - I'll let you know
if any scripts work with PM. It'll probably be like looking for
a needle in the hay stack! lol Thanks for the input folks!
On 5/10/05 at 8:01 Barbara Needham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is there any way to access a Yahoo Mail account
through Powermail - and if so, how is it done?
Thanks in advance.
it back to where it was and where I want
it.just showing the simple headers. I have not changed my
preferences for the display, and don't recall having had this problem before.
Thanks for the wake up smack.
John
YES, I do a daily backup - or rather I let the Mac do it
for me. lol BTW, love your website! :)
On 4/26/05 at 8:01 PM, Marlyse Comte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
is it safe to assume that most users have had a trouble-free
conversion or have I missed something there too?!
nah, I think you're
Thank-you to everyone who've contributed to this thread - you've all been
most helpful. :) I particularly found Steve Abrahamson's challenge sobering:
...but of course, he wasn't relying on the beta in a real-world
production situation, and therefore everything he did in the beta is
disposable
I was wondering if there would be an upgrade fee for moving from
5.1 to 5.2? I've opened my 5.1 database in the 5.2 beta version...
will I be able to revert back to 5.1 using the database I'm using in
5.2? (I've made a back-up of the old 5.1 database as is suggested.)
Why is there so many copies
switching to Powermail earlier than I
did. Over the years I've learned to live without it - but it would be
great to have it back.
--
John R. Hopper
Whatta putz! I don't even want to guess how many thousand emails I've
written and never noticed that box.
Sigh!
I'll go back to my corner now.
(Thanks Barbara)
John
Barbara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
John Maylone on 3/6/05 said
It would be nice if there were an icon
I wish that was the problem..I'd understand that. To make it even
weirder, it was only doing it part of the time. I switched the html
setting to have it NOT prefer html when plain text is
available..maybe that will fix it.
Thanks for everyone's help.
John
Pat O'[EMAIL PROTECTED
can better define what I
can and can't do in that mode.
Regards,
John
Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005, John Maylone said:
I have two questions/ issues.
First, is there a way to set PM 5.1 up so that when I reply, the reply
to address shown for me matches my address
!!! This is hugely annoying, and I feel like an idiot sending out
replies to butchered mails.
Thanks for any help,
John
Is it possible to filter like this:
if (A || B) (C)
Basically I want to check a message to see if the From line is one of two
possible email addresses. If it is, and if the subject contains a certain
keyword, to file the message into folder. It looks like the filter
criteria can be strung
From my recollection, if one changes IE's own preferences this
might help?
On 11/26/04 at 8:01 PM, PowerMail discussions (powermail-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Although Safari is my default browser across my system, whenever I get an
email that requires HTML the message always opens up in IE
Thank-you Jerome - you've put my mind at ease! I would
hate to upgrade to V.5 if the excessive HD activity were
to persist while using the full version.
From: PowerMail Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 09:39:30 +0200
John Leiher wrote:
since I had
already tried out a demo
- as I mentioned previously, works without fault on
my system. I would really like to upgrade PM to V.5 but until I can
resolve the CPU and HD activity, I can't.
John
I'm investigating the possibility of upgrading PM from V. 4.1.2 to
version 5. I downloaded the 5.1b3 demo this morning and since I
I'm investigating the possibility of upgrading PM from V. 4.1.2 to
version 5. I downloaded the 5.1b3 demo this morning and since I had
already tried out a demo 5xxx when it had first been released some
months ago, the demo has expired. No problem with that however, my
impressions of the original
thanks jerome. that did the trick.
--
John Patricio
Creative Lead
www.intiendo.com
480.446.7486
John Patricio wrote:
i have six accounts that i have set up, but when i try to download via
connect again or connect, i get in the bottom right corner that it's only
checking five.
Choose Connect
nope that didn't work.
--
John Patricio
Creative Lead
www.intiendo.com
480.446.7486
Am 13.10.2004 hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] geschrieben:
i have six accounts that i have set up, but when i try to download via
connect again or connect, i get in the bottom right corner that it's only
checking five
this problem, or maybe a solution?
--
John Patricio
480.446.7486
.
Not that this helps, but you are not alone with command-option crashing.
--
John R. Hopper
Wrangelstrasse 14
D-24105 Kiel, Germany
+49-431-888-6406
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
John R. Hopper wrote on 04.09.04 at 11:14 +0200
ran
repair permissions for disk utility,
I recently had some disk problems which Disk Utility failed to fix. I did
sort myself by starting up in Safe Mode - hold down the shift key until
the spinning disk appears. This forces a proper disk repair
?
--
John R. Hopper
Wrangelstrasse 14
D-24105 Kiel, Germany
+49-431-888-6406
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
be that a setting in 'Outgoing SMTP Server' needs changing.
Have a word with your ISP.
Brian Jacobs
Mon, 28 Jun 2004 21:23:48 +0200 John R. Hopper wrote:
I hope someone can help - my wife can't send mail from Powermail anymore
(powermail version is 5.0.1). I really don't understand. I suspected
her Powermail to send mail again?
John R. Hopper, Research Scientist
IfM-GEOMAR/Leibniz-Institute for Marine Science
Dynamics of the Crust and Mantle Research Division
GEOMAR Geb. 8/C
Wischhofstrasse 1-3
D-24148 Kiel, Germany
Tel: +49 431 600 2325
Fax: +49 431 600 2922
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED
, but that may be a good use for
Spam Sieve if I end up using Mac mail.
John
Jim Pistrang on 6/5/04 said
Hi John,
Given this, is there any value for me to get SpamSieve with PM? It does
not seem to add anything for my situation, but I don't want to overlook
anything when ordering the PM upgrade
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004, it is attributed to John Snippe to have said:
BTW: what is the anticipated pricepoint to upgrade?
Never mind. I read the readme.
--
later,
JS
Silence is the virtue of fools.
Sir Francis Bacon
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004, it is attributed to John Snippe to have said:
Does that answer your question?
Sure does. Will pass on the beta ;-)
Whoa. Offlist took a wee spike there!
Will make a copy of the database, and try the beta.
Soorryy!
BTW: what is the anticipated pricepoint
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004, it is attributed to Ben Kennedy to have said:
Will conversion of db's affect possible future post-beta use in 4.2?
Once you upgrade your DB, it will no longer work in 4.2.
Does that answer your question?
Sure does. Will pass on the beta ;-)
--
later,
JS
I
search through first?
-john
through first?
-john
Just put the messages into a folder and drag the folder to the desktop or
some folder. PM will ask you what format to save to.
--
Andy Fragen
On Sun, Apr 4, 2004, John Keegan said:
Hi, new to PW and I notice that it does not appear to be able to save
multiple messages to disk. Does anyone
On Sun, Apr 4, 2004, it is attributed to Tim Lapin to have said:
That is why I propose to have signatures tied to both accounts AND
address book entries. Thus if I'm mailing to a friend from this account,
my standard signature shows up. If, instead, I'm mailing to this list,
the signature you
Scott at [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on 5/4/04 5:03 pm
These days, I generally find those bits of
wisdom that many people insist on appending to their mail to be
pretentious and cloying, frankly.
pretentious and cloying... perfect. Thanks for appreciating! Had you
only written it with more
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004, it is attributed to Wayne Brissette to have said:
What's wrong with the current Forward option? You can add groups and
people by entering parts of their name and/or address.
Nothing 'wrong'. It would simply be more efficient. It's one of the
bitties I miss from Eudora.
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004, it is attributed to A-NO-NE Music to have said:
It does fine for me. I can't live without it!!
Do you Cmd+Shift+; which is OSX default?
Oooh! I didn't know that one!! What spellchecker does that call?
--
later,
JS
We see them come. We see them go.
Some are
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004, it is attributed to Chris Walker to have said:
Hi all,
Can anyone tell me how to set up Cocoaspell with PM? At the moment it
seems to work in the background and flags up errors but does not offer
any suggestions for corrections.
If I use PM prefs to set up spelling as
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004, it is attributed to Bob Salsburg to have said:
I have admired PowerMail from afar for quite some time while using lots
of other mail clients on the Mac and (lamentably), on Windows too.
The one thing that has stopped me from using it beyound the demo, is
he large
Thanks for your advice, if I redirect it all, i'm imagining I will lose
the correct date/time on my sent messages?
Don't know for sure, but maybe this is a task for a little AppleScript to
change the message status?
On the powermail scripts page that Wayne Brissette maintains, there is
such a
On Sat, Mar 13, 2004, it is attributed to Jay to have said:
On 3/13/04, John declared:
On Sat, Mar 13, 2004, it is attributed to matthew test to have said:
TAKE ME OFF YOUR LISTUNSUBSCRIBE!
no
I am in complete agreement with John. LET'S NOT TAKE MATTHEW OFF THIS LIST!
Actually, my
On Sat, Mar 13, 2004, it is attributed to matthew test to have said:
TAKE ME OFF YOUR LISTUNSUBSCRIBE!
no
On Sat, Mar 13, 2004, it is attributed to Victor Eijkhout to have said:
Like it says. It doesn't seem possible. I can attach, but not paste into
the body.
Which is precisely as it should be, IMHO ;-)
--
later,
JS
When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
Albanian Proverb
On Sun, Mar 7, 2004, it is attributed to Jim Pistrang to have said:
Absolutely! There are instructions in the SpamSieve documentation on how
to do this. Basically, you set up a filter in PM to Execute the
Applescript 'Spamsieve - Move if Spam'.
Du-oh! And I even SAID I wanted it to act like
I have installed Spamsieve, and started adding to the Corpus, ect. Seems
to work well.
I have one question:
Is it possible to have Spamsieve be enabled to work without user
intervention? Currently I have to invoke actions via the 'scripts'
menu... I would much prefer to have Spamsieve be able
On Fri, Mar 5, 2004, it is attributed to Marlyse Comte to have said:
might be time to trash all PM cache or other PM preference files
Where are they located?
(I assume you did all of the common PM first aid options via option-cmd when
launching PM).
Not prior to reading this, no. However, I
On Fri, Mar 5, 2004, it is attributed to Derry Thompson to have said:
If you use mail2web to DELETE those 11 emails you'll find that those
phantom 3 will vanish.
I did.
They didn't.
Just to be sure, I checked my email in PM, went to mail2web and checked,
(it confirmed that the inbox on the
On Fri, Mar 5, 2004, it is attributed to John Snippe to have said:
-if I hit command-option-k again *immediately* after the process is done,
PM reports that it is retrieving 3 (and only ever 3, and always 0.4K
each) messages, but nothing ends up coming into the browser window,
whether filtered
On Fri, Mar 5, 2004, it is attributed to Derry Thompson to have said:
Ideas?
Hi John :)
These are spam e-mails with zero content. You can delete them by using
www.mail2web.com
At least Powermail just ignores 'em, Outlook and the rest of the MS spawn
crash when attempting to retrieve them
I have an oddity here that is making me a bit nervous: every time I
check email, I get the status bar showing me that it is downloading three
messages (or more, but never fewer), yet those three never make it into
any mailboxes... and I can check several times immediately in succession
with the
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