There are a few things that irritate me about PowerMail's address book integration. (Currently using PM 4.2.1.)
I don't use the PowerMail address book to create contacts. In the preferences, I've checked the "Open contacts Apple Address Book by default." I also don't allow PM to update anything to Apple's address book. (Tried that when I first got PM and I had duplicates and triplicates and a bunch of addresses that looked like obvious spam addresses that I'd never added. I immediately became distrustful of anything to do with PM's address book integration.) Any time I want to create or modify a contact, I switch to the Apple Address Book. But, in every version of PM, any action that requires use of the Address Book, it opens PM's address book, though I've always had that preference checked. It really bothered me when I first got PM, but I tried to just ignore it. The spammers are getting too smart for PM. In the last few days, I've received several spams that were addressed to me and from my email address, but had "Douglas" as the display name. For some reason, PM leeched onto the fake display name, and each attempt to use the contact auto-complete feature, by typing "ches" it dutifully provides my address [EMAIL PROTECTED] along with the display name "Douglas" - that is NOT what I want. I had created some QuicKeys scripts that I'd put into action. The QK shortcuts type in the full "cheshirekat" ... but PM still changed it to "Douglas" before I went in and cleared PM's address history. So, now I've completely disabled the address history. Why is it that when I open a new outgoing mail message and decide not to compose a message, I'm still prompted by PM to save the message that I haven't even written in - nor have I moved the insertion point? PM seems to be a little too obsessed with saving which costs me time and energy considering how frequently I've checked and rechecked and modified or glanced at preferences and filters. Each time I modify a preference, I have to save. Though, at one time, I had to sometimes save more than once before it would allow me to close the preference window. There are several "little" things like the above examples that really irritate me about PM. The more I try to find workarounds for all the "little" irritations each and every day, the more they feel like a big mountain of PM frustrations. Some of them I was going to inquire about to the list, but as you can tell, once I get started ... sigh. So, I haven't really had the time to go into a lot of detail and each time I just feel like I'm venting. After realizing how much these problems bother me, I guess that means it's time to move on to another application that won't get me so steamed. cheshirekat
