If you want notification of when email arrives and set a schedule, you can hear the chime (preferences - notifications) in OS 9, even with PowerMail hidden while you are working in other applications if you set the volume loud enough.
While I can understand your hold out, I will tell you that my oldest son (an Engineering PhD student) told me 2 weeks ago that I could have saved myself a lot of grief if I had been all OS X. After using macs for my livelihoold for 18 years with NO problems that could not be easily recovered, I had a crash in the middle of some work that was not recoverable. I was not at home, had Tech Tools and Disk Warrior cds with me, but could not recover. When I finally got things sorted out, Excel had crashed and the time stamps on the Excel file, application and systems folder were all the same. I had to reinstall from scratch OS 9 (fortunately I saved a lot to my OS X partition) and am still reinstalling software. Software that ran fine before the crash required upgrades, reinstallation, etc. It cost me 4 days and a 3 week delay in payment for some work. (I know 4 days in 18 years isn't bad, but it wasn't pleasant.) As soon as I finish this project, I will shift to OS X. Almost all the software I use is OS X now. Midi Bill caused electrons to sail in cyberspace with: >Comment from new user of PM: > >Am a system 9.2 holdout... Running beige G3/ 448 mgs ram, add-on usb, >firewire etc., I push >huge art files around and send them worldwide, do loads of emailing to my >established >customers and prospects... a few hundred contacts a week... also use >Photoshop, Graphic >Converter, MS Office, Filemaker, etc., daily and am on the machine >constantly and email an >integral part of my work and Netscape has been fine (v 4.79). > >Am just not seeing point of X's bells & whistle, and ditto newer re all >Netscape design >changes since 4.79, but lately occasionally Communicator browser doesn't >work for me anymore >with new web sites... so am considering dump of Netscape and a switch to >PM to run with IE >5.1. and now trying PM. Accordingly spent many hours sheparding over a >gig of large email >records into PM and have been fiddling with it all day... but now think >I may be coming >down with a sever case of buyer's remorse. > >Just now realizing how much more I had with Netscape 4.79... PM doesn't >allow linking of >regular mail text to urls or to email addresses within mail, doesn't >notify when messages >arrive or even regularly the check server for me without an add-on... >And it seems kinda >clunky overall compared to Netscape. Maybe I'm just a creature of habit >but am really >wondering what the point of PM is. I have plenty room for Netscape and >IE in my machine, so >am really beginning to think I'm better off as is. > >Can anyone show me where I'm wrong here? > >BillB > > > > > > > >Larry Samberg wrote: > >> Yeh, I was a bit leary of this, initially, since most of the mailers I >> have been using for the last few years could display HTML...but the globe >> at the bottom makes it pretty easy and the reality is that my browser can >> display HTML faster and more consistently than most mailers....So I find >> that I really don't miss it... >> >> /lss >> >> -- >> Larry S. Samberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> VM/Fax: 508-861-0261 >> >> "The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal >vigilance; >> which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his >> crime, >> and the punishment of his guilt." >> John Philpot Curran >> >> On Sat, 3 May 2003 20:57:57 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> >On 5/3/03, at 8:29 PM, Barbara Needham wrote: >> > >> >>Then you can click on the globe >> >>icon at the bottom if you wish to see what the html mail really looked >> >>like. Mostly its not worth it but every once in a while I get an email I >> >>want to see the original of. >> > >> >I didn't know about the globe thing. That's slick. Thanks. >> > >> >Fred > > >
