Am 16.12.2012 um 17:29 schrieb Mark S. P. Smith: > 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.
if and only if CTM decides to rewrite PowerMail, because that would be necessary (no 64bit support in Carbon, Textengine non-utf, limited imap-support) , then it might give PowerMail a boost and bring many new users. As I wrote in the croatian thread, I reviewed all of the currently available mail-clients for the mac and the result was pretty frustrating. There is currently no mail-client on the market, which can compete with the clear design and the power of the search-engine of PowerMail. So again, please Jérôme, think about it, thank you. > > I am reluctantly using TB for IMAP mail, but prefer to use PM for all my mail > if I could. imho AppleMail handles imap better than TB. cheers Matthias > > 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 >> >> > > >
