powermail-discuss Digest #2628 - Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Re: powermail-discuss Digest #2627 - 05/07/07
by "Joe Hallett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: PowerMail and IMAP
by "Finke Finke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: PowerMail and IMAP
by "Bill Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: powermail-discuss Digest #2627 - 05/07/07
From: "Joe Hallett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 11:39:15 -0700
I recently switched from Emailer which had even less support for IMAP.
But several years ago I started to use a small application called Mail
Forward <http://www.sspi-software.com/> which automatically forwards
mail from several IMAP accounts to a central POP account where PowerMail
takes over. This allows me to apply all filtering, saving and sorting
actions to IMAP mail.
The only downsides that I have found are that occasionally I will
accidentally shut down MailForward and there always is a short delay in
receiving mail
Joe Hallett
5/7/07
>I am evaluating it for use with an IMAP account. It connected to the
>IMAP server and retrieved the folder list just fine. I'm also able to
>browse messages. However, I am unable to do the following and
>wondering if these are indeed limitations or am I missing something:
>
>- IMAP folder counts for new messages do not show up. Folders
>containing new messages simply show up emboldened.
>
>- I cannot filter to IMAP folders since only local folders appear in
>the target folder list for the action to move messages.
>
>- It would seem that only the Inbox is checked for new messages.
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Subject: Re: PowerMail and IMAP
From: "Finke Finke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 10:22:59 +0400
On May 7, 2007, at 11:00 PM, Curtis inscribed:
> Subject: Re: PowerMail and IMAP
> From: "Curtis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 11:02:21 -0500
>
> On Mon, 7 May 2007 09:34:21 -0400, Sean McBride wrote:
>
>>> with highspeed internet connections IMAP becomes more and more
>>> popular.
>>> So I think it would be nice, if these limitations within the IMAP-
>>> implementation of PM would be removed in the near future.
>>
>> I agree. IMAP is much beter than POP, and I'd like to switch, but
>> for
>> now PowerMail is holding me back.
>
> Webmail has made serious inroads into the popularity of IMAP. Webmail
> offers portability of email across machines, and with adequate
> functionality to please the majority of users interested in such
> portability.
While webmail has come a long, long way - I would argue that the
"majority of users" that is pleases aren't the same ones who use
PowerMail. From a business perspective - they often still see using
multiple machines to access email [via any protocol] as a bit
insecure. I am afraid that having amazing POP3 support at the expense
of mediocre IMAP support will cause more harm than good. In the long
run it is something that will likely be seen as a black mark against
an otherwise great application.
I've used PowerMail for years, but like Wayne B. I've given the nod
to Mail for now for it's IMAP support. The trade off is I'm more
inclined to pare down the total size of messages to try and keep it
lean. In PM it was nice [in fact exceedingly beneficial] to be able
to reference 2-3 year old emails conversations about an ongoing
project without losing speed or functionality. Using Mail I try to
extract the relevant bits to other documents and rely on searching
for them [DEVONThink].
Fin Kename
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Subject: Re: PowerMail and IMAP
From: "Bill Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 07:42:15 -0400
Yes, like Fin and Wayne, I've finally switched over to Thunderbird, for
the two reasons that are regularly raised on this list... support for
IMAP, and support for html. I would have liked to stay with PowerMail
but I must admit, everything seems to move a lot more smoothly in
Thunderbird. Although I don't like the search engine as much.
Too bad...
BILL.
Finke Finke wrote:
> On May 7, 2007, at 11:00 PM, Curtis inscribed:
>> Subject: Re: PowerMail and IMAP
>> From: "Curtis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 11:02:21 -0500
>>
>> On Mon, 7 May 2007 09:34:21 -0400, Sean McBride wrote:
>>
>>>> with highspeed internet connections IMAP becomes more and more
>>>> popular.
>>>> So I think it would be nice, if these limitations within the IMAP-
>>>> implementation of PM would be removed in the near future.
>>>
>>> I agree. IMAP is much beter than POP, and I'd like to switch, but for
>>> now PowerMail is holding me back.
>>
>> Webmail has made serious inroads into the popularity of IMAP. Webmail
>> offers portability of email across machines, and with adequate
>> functionality to please the majority of users interested in such
>> portability.
>
> While webmail has come a long, long way - I would argue that the
> "majority of users" that is pleases aren't the same ones who use
> PowerMail. From a business perspective - they often still see using
> multiple machines to access email [via any protocol] as a bit
> insecure. I am afraid that having amazing POP3 support at the expense
> of mediocre IMAP support will cause more harm than good. In the long
> run it is something that will likely be seen as a black mark against
> an otherwise great application.
>
> I've used PowerMail for years, but like Wayne B. I've given the nod to
> Mail for now for it's IMAP support. The trade off is I'm more inclined
> to pare down the total size of messages to try and keep it lean. In PM
> it was nice [in fact exceedingly beneficial] to be able to reference
> 2-3 year old emails conversations about an ongoing project without
> losing speed or functionality. Using Mail I try to extract the
> relevant bits to other documents and rely on searching for them
> [DEVONThink].
>
> Fin Kename
>
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