>>CTM probably has little incentive to help you as >>well because spending time studying bugs in a version of the software >>that's not even sold anymore wastes their time, and may even hurt sales, >>because it would give you a disincentive to finally upgrade (if the old >>version worked great). > >Well, you still can [at least the last time I looked] buy version 3. Also, the main problems I have had all remain in Powermail 4.1.3 so Scott is out on a bicycle ride here. Especially so, as I have never asked that CTM should fix this is 3.1.3. I want them fixed in 4.1.4, or at least 4.2. The reason Scott choose to speculate on what I want is unknown to me. Maybe he just don't have any arguments otherwise.
The issues I've had are: 1. import with messages with ISO-8859-1 char sets and extended ASCII in subject, From field or in body from Emailer 2 via OE 4.5 OR via Eudora mailbox compliant files - that import well to any other app that can do that kind of format- do not display properly. Either just the subject and from field are affected or both those and the body. The OE 4.5 path gives "char set=X-user-defined" instead of 2char set=ISO- 8859-1". 2. Erratic behavior when checking mail have been verified by several to remain in 4.1.3. Same here, but as 4.1.3 is faster it's not as bad as in 3.1.3. Still unacceptable behaviour in an OS X application. 3. messages get stuck on several accounts in a magnitude I've never experienced before. 100+ messages on 5 accounts on 3 separate servers, including one fresh account and over 2 different PM DBs was affected. The problem remains in 4.1.3, unless I delete when I get the messages. While this *may* not be PM problem, fact is it was not just a few messages and PM was not coping well with the situation. I've never experinced anything similar the last 150 000+ messages I've received since 1994. I will check the transactions the next time I have the problem to determine if the problem is not so well formed requests from OM or if it's the servers that are acting up. I doubt it's the bearvirus as most servers are on Mac OS, but one never know for sure before one looks deeper.
