I am also willing but pay for updates if it helps CTMDev maintain PowerMail. Despite its creaking Carbon foundations it's easily the best mail client available for the Mac.
However, I fear Sean is right. CTM is unlikely to rewrite PM for Cocoa at this point, and it would probably hard to justify the effort. With Apple offering Apple Mail for free, and things like Thunderbird also available, there would be a limited audience for the application. It may be much better than Mail or TB, but not enough people would be willing to pay for that benefit, if they find free alternatives acceptable. I am reluctantly using TB for IMAP mail, but prefer to use PM for all my mail if I could. Mark At Wed, 22 Aug 2012 10:48:54 -0400, the quick nimble fingers of Sean McBride wrote: >On Aug 17, 2012, at 03:57, Koen Keevel wrote: > >> So what are the future plans from ctmdev? > >You guys are all dreaming. PowerMail is dead. It's sad but true. > >It's still a 32 bit Carbon app after years and years now of Apple >telling developers they needed to move to Cocoa. Since PowerMail still >hasn't made that switch, it's not likely to now. > >I appreciate that CTM is keeping it on life support, and still use it at >work, but a dozen users offering a few pennies isn't going to change anything. > >I wouldn't be surprised if OS X 10.9 drops support for 32 bit, and then >PowerMail won't work. :( > >Sean > >
