Hello, I reported a bug in Powermail a few days ago, and I would recommend that you not follow Jérôme's advice if you are using a PM database that is mounted on a shared volume. I haven't tried the "move attachments to trash" filter, but I suspect it will cause problems.
A alan at Fri, 17 Sep 2004 20:05:29 -0700 said: >I have a crashing bug in Powermail. > >1) Mount the file system with your Powermail database from another >computer under Apple file sharing >2) Open the database in the latest version of Powermail (5.0.1) >3) Find an email with an attachment, click on the attachment icon and hit >command-delete, respond yes to the dialog. >4) Now Powermail will hang >5) Worse, every time you click on that email in the browser window, >Powermail will hang again > >The problem can be fixed by loading the database from a local disk and >deleting the offending email. PowerMail Engineering at Fri, 24 Sep 2004 14:43:06 +0200 said: >Ismaldo wrote: > >>My DownLoad Folder is filled with miscellaneous GIF's everyday that are >>graphics contained in garbage HTML messages. One of the reasons that I >>use PM is to avoid annoying HTML spam, but it seems to have tracked me >>down anyway. > >Images in HTML messages can either be attached, or on line (just >referenced by an URL in the HTML code). In the first case, as other >attachments, they are moved to the Finder trash when the message >containing them is deleted (mail trash is emptied). In the second case, >the image is never stored in the attachment folder. >If you are using SpamSieve, you can also add a "move attachments to >trash" action to the "Spam: action" filter to move them to the Finder >trash immediately. > > >Jérôme - PowerMail Engineering >
