powermail-discuss Digest #2940 - Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Comments on upgrade to PowerMail 6
by "Winston Weinmann" <[email protected]>
Re: Comments on upgrade to PowerMail 6
by "Michael J. Hußmann" <[email protected]>
Re(2): Comments on upgrade to PowerMail 6
by "Winston Weinmann" <[email protected]>
Re: Comments on upgrade to PowerMail 6
by "Michael J. Hußmann" <[email protected]>
Re(2): Comments on upgrade to PowerMail 6
by "Winston Weinmann" <[email protected]>
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Subject: Comments on upgrade to PowerMail 6
From: "Winston Weinmann" <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 21:20:06 -0400
I was a late upgrader from PowerMail 5 to PowerMail 6. Here are a few
impressions.
1. Great that I can now print HTML documents (without opening them in a web
browser first).
2. Wish I could forward HTML documents. This really is essential these days.
(Yes, I suppose I could open them in my web browser, then print to a PDF, then
send an attachment. But really.)
3. Dragging a message from the In Tray to a folder doesn't show the message
dragging. This is very disconcerting. The destination folder highlights when
the cursor goes over it, but I can't easily tell that I'm still dragging
something. And if I mis-drag I'm not sure I'll ever see where the message went
as it's invisible.
Is there a fix for this?
4. The highlight on a message being read in the In Tray is too bright. It's
also almost impossible to read a message name that has been labeled, as these
go dark against the blue highlight. Nor can you see how it's labeled.
Definitely a step backward.
5. Hiccups
- a calendar item that came as text originally, then as a calendar attachment
that opened in iCal when someone else forwarded it to me. I suspect PowerMail
could have handled the first one more elegantly.
- HTML sometimes still doesn't show up. I have to click on another message,
then back to the one in question. Sometimes several times.
- could not copy the PowerMail 6 application from the downloaded Disk Image
directly to my computer. Had to open it on an Intel Mac and hide it in a Zip
file to get it onto my PowerPC computer.
- HTML messages, which I suspect were improperly formatted without a text only
section, come in as attachments instead of opening in PowerMail.
I'm sure there are some benefits I am missing, but other than (FINALLY) being
able to print what I see in an HTML document, I do not see much change. I am
still getting used to the brighter blue and white bands separating messages and
folders. They seem more distracting than helpful.
I do appreciate the Rich Text formatting option, although I've not used it yet.
I'd have preferred being able to forward HTML documents.
- Winston
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Subject: Re: Comments on upgrade to PowerMail 6
From: "Michael J. Hußmann" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 03:53:01 +0200
Winston Weinmann ([email protected]) wrote:
> 3. Dragging a message from the In Tray to a folder doesn't show the
> message dragging.
It does on my Macs (iMac and MacBook Pro) so that's quite odd; PM displays a
semi-transparent letter icon and subject text when dragging a message. (I'm
using PM 6.1 under Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7.)
> 4. The highlight on a message being read in the In Tray is too bright.
> It's also almost impossible to read a message name that has been
> labeled, as these go dark against the blue highlight. Nor can you see
> how it's labeled. Definitely a step backward.
The highlight color is the highlight color selected in the system-wide
preferences, i.e. the same color used by the Finder etc.. Do you see a
different color?
- Michael
Michael J. Hußmann
E-mail: [email protected]
WWW (personal): http://michael-hussmann.de
WWW (professional): http://digicam-experts.de
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Subject: Re(2): Comments on upgrade to PowerMail 6
From: "Winston Weinmann" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:56:14 -0400
3. I'm on OS 10.4 on a PPC PowerBook. So effectively I'm running a different
version of the program (PPC vs. Intel).
4. The highlight color looks slightly darker to me in PM than in the Finder,
but that's probably optical illusion. Maybe it's just that messages that are
labeled have black text in PM when highlighted. Unlabeled messages have white
text when highlighted. The black text is very hard to read with the highlight.
I don't think that was true in PM 5. (Can't open it to check while I've got PM
6 open.)
- Winston
Michael J. Hußmann wrote:
>Winston Weinmann ([email protected]) wrote:
>
>> 3. Dragging a message from the In Tray to a folder doesn't show the
>> message dragging.
>
>It does on my Macs (iMac and MacBook Pro) so that's quite odd; PM
>displays a semi-transparent letter icon and subject text when dragging a
>message. (I'm using PM 6.1 under Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7.)
>
>> 4. The highlight on a message being read in the In Tray is too bright.
>> It's also almost impossible to read a message name that has been
>> labeled, as these go dark against the blue highlight. Nor can you see
>> how it's labeled. Definitely a step backward.
>
>The highlight color is the highlight color selected in the system-wide
>preferences, i.e. the same color used by the Finder etc.. Do you see a
>different color?
>
>- Michael
>
>
>Michael J. Hußmann
>
>E-mail: [email protected]
>WWW (personal): http://michael-hussmann.de
>WWW (professional): http://digicam-experts.de
>
>
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Subject: Re: Comments on upgrade to PowerMail 6
From: "Michael J. Hußmann" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:34:05 +0200
Winston Weinmann ([email protected]) wrote:
> 3. I'm on OS 10.4 on a PPC PowerBook. So effectively I'm running a
> different version of the program (PPC vs. Intel).
I've got a G5 with 10.4 somewhere, but not here, so at the moment I cannot
check this.
> 4. The highlight color looks slightly darker to me in PM than in the
> Finder, but that's probably optical illusion. Maybe it's just that
> messages that are labeled have black text in PM when highlighted.
> Unlabeled messages have white text when highlighted. The black text is
> very hard to read with the highlight.
What I am seeing is that the black text of unlabeled messages is displayed
inverted (i.e. as white) when highlighted whereas the colored text of labeled
messages retains its color even when it is highlighted. Not all the
combinations of highlight color and label color make for equally readable pairs
but I haven't found a combination that was really unreadable. My preferred
highlight color is yellow, though; that may make a difference.
- Michael
Michael J. Hußmann
E-mail: [email protected]
WWW (personal): http://michael-hussmann.de
WWW (professional): http://digicam-experts.de
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Subject: Re(2): Comments on upgrade to PowerMail 6
From: "Winston Weinmann" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:46:35 -0400
Even the yellow labeled text looks almost black when highlighted on my Mac.
Unlabeled text, as for your Mac, inverts and shows white and it quite readable.
But no label color is easily read when highlighted.
I'm not having any trouble seeing any other colors on my computer. Videos play
normally, etc.
- Winston
Michael J. Hußmann wrote:
>Winston Weinmann ([email protected]) wrote:
>
>> 3. I'm on OS 10.4 on a PPC PowerBook. So effectively I'm running a
>> different version of the program (PPC vs. Intel).
>
>I've got a G5 with 10.4 somewhere, but not here, so at the moment I
>cannot check this.
>
>> 4. The highlight color looks slightly darker to me in PM than in the
>> Finder, but that's probably optical illusion. Maybe it's just that
>> messages that are labeled have black text in PM when highlighted.
>> Unlabeled messages have white text when highlighted. The black text is
>> very hard to read with the highlight.
>
>What I am seeing is that the black text of unlabeled messages is
>displayed inverted (i.e. as white) when highlighted whereas the colored
>text of labeled messages retains its color even when it is highlighted.
>Not all the combinations of highlight color and label color make for
>equally readable pairs but I haven't found a combination that was really
>unreadable. My preferred highlight color is yellow, though; that may
>make a difference.
>
>- Michael
>
>
>Michael J. Hußmann
>
>E-mail: [email protected]
>WWW (personal): http://michael-hussmann.de
>WWW (professional): http://digicam-experts.de
>
>
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