Re(2): Time for an update!

2010-03-12 Thread Peter Lovell
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010, Michael J. Hußmann wrote: >> The other thing that I find tiresome with PowerMail's monolithic >> database is that the entire database needs to be backed up on a daily >> basis. With Apple Mail, the only mailboxes that get backed up in an >> incremental backup are the ones th

Re: Time for an update!

2010-03-12 Thread MB
Jeremy Hughes said: >Here in the office, people who have switched from PowerMail to Apple >Mail have much smaller backups. So CTM Dev are responsible for you choosing an inferior backup strategy? I think not and I also find your reasnoning to not be sound in this case. There are backup apps tha

Re: Time for an update!

2010-03-04 Thread Jeremy Hughes
Michael J. Hußmann (26/1/10, 19:58) said: >> The other thing that I find tiresome with PowerMail's monolithic >> database is that the entire database needs to be backed up on a daily >> basis. With Apple Mail, the only mailboxes that get backed up in an >> incremental backup are the ones that have

Re: Time for an update!

2010-03-04 Thread Jeremy Hughes
Michael J. Hußmann (26/1/10, 19:58) said: >> The other thing that I find tiresome with PowerMail's monolithic >> database is that the entire database needs to be backed up on a daily >> basis. With Apple Mail, the only mailboxes that get backed up in an >> incremental backup are the ones that have

Re: Time for an update!

2010-03-04 Thread Jeremy Hughes
Michael J. Hußmann (26/1/10, 19:58) said: >> The other thing that I find tiresome with PowerMail's monolithic >> database is that the entire database needs to be backed up on a daily >> basis. With Apple Mail, the only mailboxes that get backed up in an >> incremental backup are the ones that have

Re: Time for an update!

2010-03-04 Thread Tobias Jung
Jeremy Hughes wrote (Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:05:50 +): > I've been using PowerMail for maybe eight years, and Claris Emailer for > about six years before that. The only way I have managed to continue > using PowerMail is by moving some of my older mailing list emails > (Carbon-Dev, Cocoa-Dev etc.

Re: Time for an update!

2010-01-26 Thread Michael J . Hußmann
Jeremy Hughes (jer...@softpress.com) wrote: > I've been using PowerMail for maybe eight years, and Claris Emailer for > about six years before that. The only way I have managed to continue > using PowerMail is by moving some of my older mailing list emails > (Carbon-Dev, Cocoa-Dev etc.) into Apple

Re: Time for an update!

2010-01-26 Thread Jeremy Hughes
Tobias Jung (22/1/10, 11:37) said: >Don't get my wrong - I don't want to critisize or anything, I'm really >just curios: >How many messages do you get? 242179 messages at the moment. I've recently had to prune the database to continue using it. >I'm using PowerMail for a year now and PowerMail's

Re: Time for an update!

2010-01-26 Thread Sean McBride
Tobias Jung (new...@tobiasjung.net) on 2010-01-22 06:37 said: >>> 1. Larger than 2GB archive sizes (I have two suggestions: a) a way to >>> create folders that use separate DBs, and/or a DB per email account >> >> That's my #1 request as well. >> >> I have one email account, and PowerMail's 2GB

Re: Time for an update!

2010-01-26 Thread MB
George Henne quoted: > > and so on Man, that HTML was dreadful.

Re: Time for an update!

2010-01-22 Thread Michael J . Hußmann
Peter Lovell (plov...@mac.com) wrote: > The naming is done by the sender as part of the MIME stuff. > Powermail might change the name by adding a number if the name is > already used, but that's all the change I've ever seen. The Image001 ... part would be the filename chosen by the sender. If th

Re(3): Time for an update!

2010-01-22 Thread George Henne
>On Fri, Jan 22, 2010, Michael J. Hußmann wrote: > >>> Here's the html in the message. The attachments get named Image001.jpg, >>> Image002.jpg ..., probably by PowerMail. >> >>That's odd. I've never seen anything like that, in all the years I've >>been using PowerMail. > >The naming is done by t

Re(2): Time for an update!

2010-01-22 Thread Peter Lovell
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010, Michael J. Hußmann wrote: >> Here's the html in the message. The attachments get named Image001.jpg, >> Image002.jpg ..., probably by PowerMail. > >That's odd. I've never seen anything like that, in all the years I've >been using PowerMail. The naming is done by the sender

Re: Time for an update!

2010-01-22 Thread Michael J . Hußmann
George Henne (g...@nsbasic.com) wrote: > Here's the html in the message. The attachments get named Image001.jpg, > Image002.jpg ..., probably by PowerMail. That's odd. I've never seen anything like that, in all the years I've been using PowerMail. - Michael Michael J. Hußmann E-mail: mich...@

Re(2): Time for an update!

2010-01-22 Thread George Henne
>George Henne (g...@nsbasic.com) wrote: > >> An html mail with embedded images is a perfectly reasonable thing to >> expect your browser to display properly. > >And PowerMail does. Depending on your preferences settings, PM will >either display all the embedded images in HTML mail, or just those se

Re: Time for an update!

2010-01-22 Thread Tobias Jung
Jeremy Hughes wrote (Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:51:15 +): > Lane Roathe (19/1/10, 20:38) said: > >> 1. Larger than 2GB archive sizes (I have two suggestions: a) a way to >> create folders that use separate DBs, and/or a DB per email account > > That's my #1 request as well. > > I have one email a

Re: Time for an update!

2010-01-22 Thread Lane Roathe
on Sat, Jan 16, 2010 PowerMail discussions may have said: >I've been a Powermail fan for years, but I'm getting impatient for some >improvements. I an agree with that, there are several things I'd like to see improve; my list: 1. Larger than 2GB archive sizes (I have two suggestions: a) a way to

Re: Time for an update!

2010-01-22 Thread Michael J . Hußmann
George Henne (g...@nsbasic.com) wrote: > An html mail with embedded images is a perfectly reasonable thing to > expect your browser to display properly. And PowerMail does. Depending on your preferences settings, PM will either display all the embedded images in HTML mail, or just those sent with

Re: Time for an update!

2010-01-22 Thread Jeremy Hughes
Lane Roathe (19/1/10, 20:38) said: >1. Larger than 2GB archive sizes (I have two suggestions: a) a way to >create folders that use separate DBs, and/or a DB per email account That's my #1 request as well. I have one email account, and PowerMail's 2GB limit combined with its monolithic database i

Re: Re(2): Time for an update!

2010-01-22 Thread A-NO-NE Music
On 2010/01/19, at 12:25, George Henne wrote: > PS. What is the danger in displaying inline images? My question exactly :-) -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pearflame&search_type=&

Re: Time for an update!

2010-01-22 Thread Ben Kennedy
Lane Roathe wrote at 2:38 PM (-0600) on 1/19/10: >Well, for one they are almost always used as a way to track you. In my experience, they are almost always used as a way to... include images with the message. The tracking thing probably happens, but come on, isn't your e-mail address already bom

Re(2): Time for an update!

2010-01-22 Thread George Henne
>>1. .ics files can't update Calendar. > >Works for me, this is actually a OS thing, PM is just telling the system >to open the file; whatever application is assigned to that filename >suffix with handle it. (Don't get me started on losing one of the best >features of Mac OS X w/the loss of creator

Re: Time for an update!

2010-01-19 Thread Ben Kennedy
Paul, some decorum please. Now you're just spamming the list (i.e. the rest of us) with your profanities. -ben Paul Schatzkin (mobile) wrote at 11:19 AM (-0600) on 1/19/10: >AT LEAST MY APPLE MAIL DOESNT CONTINUOUSLY SPAM ME. > >--PS > >Sent from my iPhone, which is why it's so short. > >On Jan

Re: Time for an update!

2010-01-19 Thread Michael Lewis
Does your Apple Mail not show you the headers like my Apple Mail does? You can find the unsubscribe email address there, as is usual for most compliant email list services. You will, most likely, need to unsubscribe from the original address you used to subscribe. -- Michael Lewis Off Balance P

Re: Time for an update!

2010-01-19 Thread Tim lapin
On 19/01/2010 12:16 PM, Paul Schatzkin (mobile) wrote: And I would NEVER used an e-mail program whose "support" srvice t relentlessly spams NON USERS with unwanted support e-mails without so much as an " unsubscribe" link in the msgs. This is lame, stupid and fucked up. How do I make it stop??

Re(2): Time for an update!

2010-01-19 Thread George Henne
I think you're missing my point. An html mail with embedded images is a perfectly reasonable thing to expect your browser to display properly. I used Apple Mail as a comparison, since it's reasonable to expect PowerMail to work at least as well. I could have used almost any other modern mail read

Re: Time for an update!

2010-01-19 Thread Paul Schatzkin (mobile)
AT LEAST MY APPLE MAIL DOESNT CONTINUOUSLY SPAM ME. --PS Sent from my iPhone, which is why it's so short. On Jan 16, 2010, at 11:05 PM, Michael Lewis wrote: On Jan 16, 2010, at 10:20 AM, Michael J. Hußmann wrote: Anyway, if Apple Mail was the yardstick against all other mail clients w

Re: Time for an update!

2010-01-19 Thread Paul Schatzkin (mobile)
And I would NEVER used an e-mail program whose "support" srvice t relentlessly spams NON USERS with unwanted support e-mails without so much as an " unsubscribe" link in the msgs. This is lame, stupid and fucked up. How do I make it stop??? --PS Sent from my iPhone, which is why it's so sh

Re: Time for an update!

2010-01-19 Thread Michael Lewis
On Jan 16, 2010, at 10:20 AM, Michael J. Hußmann wrote: > Anyway, if Apple Mail was the yardstick against all other mail clients > were to be measured, why would anyone be using something else? I for one > am glad there are alternatives to Apple Mail. PM could surely be > improved, but making it

Re: Time for an update!

2010-01-19 Thread Richard Hart
I agree with Michael. I would never allow my employees to use an email client that did not allow me to turn off the display of inline images. To display inline images by default is inconsiderate because it is too dangerous. Richard Hart You wrote: >A-NO-NE Music (anonemu...@mac.com) wrote: > >>

Re: Time for an update!

2010-01-16 Thread Michael J . Hußmann
George Henne (g...@nsbasic.com) wrote: > The messages are in html, with embedded images. Once again, something > PowerMail should handle gracefully. But PM already does display images inline if they are embedded within HTML messages (if you have set its preferences that way). What it doesn't do i

Re: Time for an update!

2010-01-16 Thread Michael J . Hußmann
A-NO-NE Music (anonemu...@mac.com) wrote: > What standard now is Apple Mail. Apple Mail has a hidden preference ("DisableInlineAttachmentViewing"; you can set it using the shell) governing whether attachments are displayed inline. Contrary to what George supposed, Apple Mail doesn't care about th

Re(2): Time for an update!

2010-01-16 Thread George Henne
>George Henne (g...@nsbasic.com) wrote: > >> For me, the attachments end up as part of the body of the text version >> of the message - Powermail does not detect the attachment. The mail >> program on the iPhone recognizes the attachment properly. > >I've just tried sending from iCal 4.0.1 to PM 6

Re: Time for an update!

2010-01-16 Thread A-NO-NE Music
On 2010/01/16, at 9:35, Michael J. Hußmann wrote: > I was wondering about the "as the author intended" part - is there > actually a standard way to specify that images should be displayed > inline, other than using HTML? Because technically those inline images > are still attachments. What stand

Re: Time for an update!

2010-01-16 Thread Michael J . Hußmann
George Henne (g...@nsbasic.com) wrote: > For me, the attachments end up as part of the body of the text version > of the message - Powermail does not detect the attachment. The mail > program on the iPhone recognizes the attachment properly. I've just tried sending from iCal 4.0.1 to PM 6.0.3 and

Re(2): Time for an update!

2010-01-16 Thread George Henne
More inline... >George Henne (g...@nsbasic.com) wrote: > >> 1. .ics files can't update Calendar. > >Works for me; double clicking an .ics attachment opens iCal which offers >to add it to some calendar. For me, the attachments end up as part of the body of the text version of the message - Powerma

Re: Time for an update!

2010-01-16 Thread Michael J . Hußmann
George Henne (g...@nsbasic.com) wrote: > 1. .ics files can't update Calendar. Works for me; double clicking an .ics attachment opens iCal which offers to add it to some calendar. > 2. Links inside html emails do not open in many cases. Yep. Works a little better than before, but still not compl

Time for an update!

2010-01-16 Thread George Henne
I've been a Powermail fan for years, but I'm getting impatient for some improvements. These are basic things that other mail clients (like Apple's Mail) do just fine. 1. .ics files can't update Calendar. 2. Links inside html emails do not open in many cases. 3. Emails with inline pictures do not