Dear PowerMail list member,
We are hereby pleased to announce the availability of the PowerMail 5.0b12
public beta release, which can be directly downloaded from:
<http://www.ctmdev.com/download.shtml>
Release notes and information on managing your subscription to this list
are included below.
Best regards,
Marie-Therese Lamagat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CTM Development <http://www.ctmdev.com>
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> POWERMAIL 5.0B18 RELEASE NOTES - MAY 2004
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Incremental release notes (since previous seeded version)
5.0b18/ final public beta
New features
* The reply popup menu, in the toolbar, now enables replying to any of
the from/sender/reply-to/to/cc address
* When replying to a message, or clicking on a mailto URL, you can now
close the message with no confirmation dialog if you didn't type
anything in it
* Reply single message is now available also in the reply button popup
within the toolbar
* A new popup menu appears at the bottom of the message when the header
contains some usefull URLs (to manage mailing lists for example)
* When clicking a mailto URL in a message, the message is now created
with the same account as the message containing the URL
* The "perform mail filters again" option, in the "mark as good"
preference, automatically resets the label to none before filtering the
message again
* The attachment folder is now primarily identified using a path relative
to the database, then an alias is used if it has been renamed or moved.
* The toolbar settings are now saved in the PowerMail database, in
addition to the user's library folder; consequently, using the database
from another user or another machine will keep the toolbar settings
* Now inclused the German-language resources in addition to French and
English
* Compacting the database now automatically performs a verification of
the database consistency
* When verifying the consistency of the database, the attachment
references are now updated, in case they have been moved or renamed; it
is recommended to go through this step of compacting before you copy
your database and your attachment folder to another machine, disk or
volume, or before making a backup or archive.
* A dot is now drawn in the close box of windows that needs to be saved
Bug fixes
* Clicking a mailto URL that specify a BCC recipient now works properly
* Some square characters were displayed in particular incorrectly encoded
messages (when line-feed characters were quote-printable encoded)
* When displaying a message whose attachments have been renamed or moved,
the internal attachment reference is updated so it will be more
reliable
* Increased the size of the text pane margin
* Messages that were in the trash prior the upgrade to PowerMail version
5 could be deleted at a random time when using the "Delete from trash
after n days" option
* Rebuilding the search index from the PowerMail First Aid did not work
if background indexing was turned off
* Some problems could occur when sending a message using an SMTP server
the requires authentication
* Some filter conditions did not work: label is, folder is, number of
recipients is more than
* The status bar was not drawn correctly in 2 panes mode
* The tab key did not work properly when the keyboard system preference
was set to "full keyboard access"
* Reply, forward and redirect did not work from a script called from an
incoming filter
* The AppleScript "move message to message container" did not work in
5.0b12
* Improved the way exceptions are handled upon compacting
o Formerly, we would try to delete the .tmp file when it was not yet
closed, which caused a -47 secondary exception within the
exception itself (file is busy)
o Now, the .tmp file gets closed before deletion and primary-cause
errors get displayed properly
* When an attachment has no filename (or when a message contains multple
HTML parts), the attachment is now created using the message subject as
filename, instead of "Enclosure" or "Enclosure.html".
PowerMail 5 feature overview
* Better at fighting spam:
o Built-in filters enhancement for dealing with spam
o Tight integration with SpamSieve for best efficiency
* Improved performance and functionality:
o Now ships as Mac OS X-only Mach0 binary (requires Mac OS
X 10.2 or later)
o Much faster when fetching, filtering and storing
messages
o Many more filter actions (including by content)
o Delete messages after "n" days in the Mail trash
o Ability to process incorrectly-decoded messages again
o Long file names and alias support for attachments
o Ability to export attachments along with messages
* User interface enhancements:
o Fully customizable toolbars in mail browser, recent
mail, message window, address book and setting dialogs,
with extra addable toolbar buttons
o New multiple "Undo" feature on moving messages, change
status, marrk read/unread, mark as spam/mark as good
o Ability to use System sounds and custom sounds
o New filter interface eases editing of complex rules
o Configurable Address history and Recent mail views
o Supports .sitx decompression if Stuffit Engine is
present
o Integrated and customizable Mac OS X toolbar
o Live resizing of windows
o Better organization of the Scripts menu
A screen dump can be viewed at:
<http://www.ctmdev.com/powermail5.shtml>
PowerMail 5 feature details can be read at:
<http://www.ctmdev.com/release_notes.htm>
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> SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICING UNTIL MAY 31 FOR
> UPGRADING FROM EARLIER POWERMAIL VERSIONS OR
> BUYING NEW POWERMAIL 5 LICENSES AND SPAMSIEVE
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Until May 31st 2004 only, upgrades from previous PowerMail versions
are just US$ 29, or US$ 45 including SpamSieve(TM) while new licenses
are just US$ 49, or US$ 65 including SpamSieve(TM) (Note: SpamSieve
alone usually costs US$ 25 !).
Orders can be placed now, but will only be charged and processed
upon final release of version 5.0:
<http://www.ctmdev.com/sales.shtml>
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