Thanks Jerome, At first I could not believe it, but indeed, StuffIt was the culprit. And I did move all my data over via the assistant (in itself incredibly practical). In any case, I could now launch PM succesfully.
Willem 11:47 am Thursday, February 10, 2005 PowerMail PowerMail Engineering sent the following message: >Willem Smelik wrote: > >>Hi, I just received a new iBook and installed PM on it, but it refuses to >>launch. Before any window appears, or even PM in the menubar, it crashes. >>What could be the reason? > >If you used the Mac OS assistant to transfer your data from your previous >mac, it could have installed StuffIt incorrectly. Try to reinstall StuffIt. > >Best regards > > >Jérôme - PowerMail Engineering > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > "With fairly flexible filters and mail options built-in, PowerMail shows > that a great deal of thought has gone into striking the balance between > a Über-geek tool (i.e. w/full-blown Boleean instructions) and something > a mortal can use (pull down menus)." > PowerMail user comment on www.macupdate.com > > > Download a demo version from www.ctmdev.com >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >

