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
