Hi Shell, and welcome. I think that you may have gone about it slightly back to front. If memory serves (and it's been a while since I registered a copy of PM so I might be wrong) you should *drop the application onto the key*, not the other way around.
If you drop the key on the app, PM, instead of becoming registered, thinks that you're trying to send the key as an attachment. It will launch itself to do this if it was not already active, but of course since it still is not registered at this point is will give you the warning about expiration. The bit about it looking like an excel file was a bit worrying though, and might point to a problem with your decompression software (whether you're using OSX's own or Stuffit) not correctly identifying the file type when it decodes it. But I don't think that's a PM issue, unless CTM did something weird when they compressed it sent it to you. HTH Rick -- G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM :: 10.4.3 :: PM 5.2.2 :: 3 pane mode Shark Attack: A Design Studio <www.sharkattack.co.uk> -- Original message: Received from Shell Olson on 3/2/06 at 23:57 >For whatever it's worth, my problem isn't over. I had hoped it was. >I got a key, downloaded it (is it really an Excel binary file? early >versions' >keys looked different), and dropped it on the new PowerMail 5.2.2 icon. >It opened PowerMail automatically, >gave me the same message about expiring in 27 days, told me I couldn't >send or receive unless I trashed all but fewer than 200 messages, and >it opened a new message window with Subject line PMKey 5 olson. >And that's all. So I still can't use it. > >Actually, I've never figured out how to get MAIL to work, either. I tried >when I got >this iBook, but with all the written instructions in Japanese--and I had >PowerMail-- >and I was trying to deal with my Internet server in Japanese, well, I didn't >think it >worth taking the time to figure out how to get intelligible instructions in >English. >Guess I need to do that. (not asking, not on the subject of PowerMail, just >replying) >I'm not quite as computer illiterate as I sound... >PS Special thanks to Tim's PowerMail FAQ which helped to get on this list at >all. > >On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 08:00:19 -0800 > "Barbara Needham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Marlyse Comte on 2/3/06 said >> >>>This seems to me a good moment to point out (not for you in particular, >>>just as a general comment) that there IS a good reason to keep Apples >>>MAIL around: create all your accounts in MAIL but set them all to LEAVE >>>MESSAGES ON SERVER and to. MANUAL CHECKING (and you could also set to >>>automatically send a BCC to yourself). Then, if there are any problems >>>with PM - i.e. like missing key, database crashed, whatever else - or >>>for any other reason why you want to check/write email outside of PM - I >>>for example use it sometimes on my desktop machine to respond to some >>>email embedded in a website link - it's already all setup and there is >>>no down time trying to get to your mail or to write and it's also >>>ensured that what you send out will endup in PM (if set to send BCC to >>>yourself). >>> >>>It's just one of these things which have made my life smoother in the >>>past and so I thought I'd pass it along. >> >>I do this, also. Although rather than use Apple Mail, I use Thunderbird >>for this purpose. >> >>-- >>Barbara Needham > >
