powermail-discuss Digest #2944 - Saturday, September 3, 2011
Additional Comment on upgrade to PowerMail 6
by "Winston Weinmann" <[email protected]>
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Subject: Additional Comment on upgrade to PowerMail 6
From: "Winston Weinmann" <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 12:31:48 -0400
6. For HTML messages I cannot use the cursor to select text. I can double click
on a word to select that word, or triple click and select a line, but I can't
click and drag over HTML text to select it.
This means I often have to take the extra step to either switch to text-only
view, or open the message in a web browser, in order to copy something from an
email.
- Winston
Winston wrote:
>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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