Re: PowerMail crashes in WebCore while rebuilding search index
Sean McBride wrote: >Does the backtrace give a hint as to how I might work around this? It >occurs when rebuilding the search index. Perhaps there is an email I >could delete to stop the crash? But how to find it… You may disable HTML indexing from the indexing preference pane, rebuild your index, then re-enable HTML indexing for new messages. You can also export some folders to the PowerMail Exchange format, then re-import them, to re-index their HTML parts, with the hope that the offending message is not part of these folders. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - "With FoxTrot, I was finding files that I didn't remember having. It was waay better than Google Desktop search." FoxTrot Professional Search user comment on macupdate.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: PowerMail not emptying trash at quit
Winston Weinmann wrote: >My PowerMail is set to delete messages in the trash which are "there for >60 days" when the program quits. It has stopped doing this. No idea why this could have suddenly stopped working. Since how many time are your oldest messages there? Does this coincide with something like a macOS upgrade or other change in your environment? Jérôme - CTM Engineering - "Whoa!!! Seriously cool Indeed!! FoxTrot takes Spotlight to another level entirely!!" FoxTrot Personal Search user comment on www.versiontracker.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: High Sierra compatibility - shortcut cmd-del missing
Karsten Liere wrote: >I'm running the latest public beta of High Sierra >the command cmd-delete for moving messages into the trash is noc longer >working. We have reported this bug to Apple. However, Apple has announced that macOS 10.13 is the "last macOS release to support 32-bit apps without compromises", so I am not sure they will invest many resources to fix bugs that only affect Carbon 32-bit apps like PowerMail. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - "[FoxTrot] gives you a feeling a good search engine should provide: ‘Aha, good I found this one! I’ve completely forgotten about it!’ (instead of ‘Oh. What does this one have to do with what I am looking for?’)" FoxTrot Professional Search user comment Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: High Sierra compatibility - shortcut cmd-del missing
Karsten Liere wrote: >I'm running the latest public beta of High Sierra >the command cmd-delete for moving messages into the trash is noc longer >working. Thanks for the report, we didn't notice this. We'll take a look at it. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - "With FoxTrot, I was finding files that I didn't remember having. It was waay better than Google Desktop search." FoxTrot Professional Search user comment on macupdate.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: powermail-discuss Digest #3156 - 01/01/17
Judith Beiss wrote: >This message is totally unreadable. What do you suggest? Sorry, this is an issue with our list server, when dealing with unicode-encoded messages for users subscribed in digest mode. And my message was sent in unicode because of an ellipsis character... Here was my message: >Filtering [Other Field...] [X-Mailer] [contains] [iPhone] should work. BTW, you can decode such base64-encoded messages online with tools like: http://www.motobit.com/util/base64-decoder-encoder.asp Jérôme - CTM Engineering - "I used to spend hours and hours looking for a file that I swear that I had on one of my drives, but just could not locate. FoxTrot Personal Search has saved me countless hours of frustration. I strongly recommend this to anyone who is tired of misplacing files and then having that bad feeling when you can't find it." FoxTrot Personal Search user comment on download.cnet.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: Filtering an incoming message based on Header info (X-Mailer info)
Winston Weinmann wrote: >Specifically, I'd like to filter based on whether the X-Mailer line in >the Header is iPhone or PowerMail: >X-Mailer: iPhone > or >X-Mailer: CTM PowerMail > >I've tried using "Any Field" with "contains" and "Other Field..." with >"Header", and neither works to filter incoming messages. Filtering [Other Field…] [X-Mailer] [contains] [iPhone] should work. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - "FoxTrot Personal Search is what Spotlight should have been." FoxTrot Personal Search user comment on macupdate.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: Powermail slow after security update
Jeremy Hughes wrote:
>A single short message takes minutes to retrieve, and PowerMail
>beachballs and is unusable during that time.
You can take a sample of the PowerMail process using Activity Monitor (while it
is unresponsive), and send it to me. If you are using SpamSieve, you can also
sample it if it may be involved.
Does the problem persists after relaunching PowerMail (and SpamSieve), and
after a reboot?
In case the problem is related to SpamSieve, you can quit both applications,
then delete the folder "{home}/Library/Application Support/PowerMail", then
relaunch SpamSieve, then PowerMail.
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Re: PowerMail wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this.
John Maylone wrote:
The password has been typed in any number of times, Disk Utility and
Disk Warrior were just run, as well as a Drive Genius defrag. All with
no change in the situation.
Quit PowerMail, then right-click on the PowerMail.app icon in the Finder, and
choose Show Package Contents; navigate to Contents/PowerMail Additions, and
remove any PMKey file(s) you find there. Move the PMKey file (which should
probably be named PMKey 6 mrkoala) from the {home}/Library/Preferences folder
to another location, then drag and drop it to the PowerMail.app icon. This
should launch PowerMail, and reinstall the PMKey in both locations, asking for
the administrator password if you don't have permissions to modify the
application. Does this work?
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serendipity using FoxTrot Professional is worth just as much as
the ability to pull any document I have a vague and incomplete
memory about it.
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Re: PowerMail wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this.
John Maylone wrote: This is clearly not the issue. It asks for her admin password every time she opens PowerMail. The computer is hers alone, no user account switching is involved. Does she accept to type the password, or not? If not, she will be prompted every time. If yes, then she should not be prompted again. She might also try to repair disk permissions using Disk Utility. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - I've used PowerMail for over 10 years; it is a simple, elegant program that has made every necessary upgrade over the years in a nearly transparent, flawless form. It runs cleanly, never hogs resources, and does exactly what I tell it to. Beth Livingston, PowerMail user Download a demo version from www.ctmdev.com -
Re: PowerMail wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this.
John Maylone wrote: My wife is a PowerMail user. Every time she opens her PowerMail, she gets this message: PowerMail wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this.” Does anyone know what it is and how to make it stop? I think this happens when backuping the registration file (PMKey). It is stored both in the preferences folder, and inside the PowerMail.app package, and if you are using multiple OS X user accounts, you may have to provide an administrator password for this. However, this should only happen once (if you enter the admin password). Jérôme - CTM Engineering - I recently have purchased a license of FoxTrot Professional and it's really one of the best software investments I've made. [...] With FoxTrot I can find the context in the document I'm looking for, and not just the file to search in it. And the time scroll also lets me narrow the results, in real time. FoxTrot Professional Search user comment on macupdate.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: Underlining does not work
Winston Weinmann wrote: Why doesn't underlining work with Rich Text (HTML) formatting? Any underlining goes away when a message is sent or saved. Not so for bold or italics. I can't reproduce the problem; which font are you using (either in the display preference for rich text, or in the format menu)? Jérôme - CTM Engineering - FoxTrot is way better and faster than Spotlight and seriously more usable. With around 20 docs on my 60Gig drive, using Spotlight is just hopeless. Searches with FoxTrot are just instantaneous and you can view them in all sorts of ways. The preview is just wonderful. FoxTrot Personal Search user comment on www.versiontracker.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: Magic - wasThe end???? was: I did it again -- what a dummy!
T.L. Miller wrote: Anyway, a copy my PowerMail folder from back then was in the partition. ... I don't think I have lost a single sent or received message. THIS MAKES NO SENSE TO ME! Sure am grateful, however! You have certainly switched to this database, on the alternate partition, when using Spotlight, a long time ago. If Spotlight finds a message from another database, and you open that message, then PowerMail switches to this database. Then you kept using this database since then. I don't know exactly how, maybe using Spotlight again, but you switched back to the database from your boot drive recently, and it was missing all messages since you stopped using it (2013). Again, you can see where is stored the currently used database: select the file / database / switch user environment, and check which folder is show in the open dialog. Do you understand what I mean? And again, to avoid inadvertently switching database again, make sure you have one and only one database on your usually mounted drives and partitions. As previously explained, search for files named Message Database in the Finder, and if you find some other than the current one, compress then delete the folder containing them, and empty the trash. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - Whoa!!! Seriously cool Indeed!! FoxTrot takes Spotlight to another level entirely!! FoxTrot Personal Search user comment on www.versiontracker.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: The end???? was: I did it again -- what a dummy!
Thomas L. Miller wrote: I saved an unsent message, quit PowerMail and cloned my iMac’s hard drive to two external hard drives — nothing unusual, I do every week. I restarted from the internal drive, and after PM started, I saw that except for some very recent messages, I was missing all the messages sent after mid-September 2013. Obviously, PowerMail is now using an older version of your database, and has only retrieved very recent messages still present on the server. First possibility: instead of copying your database to the backup drive, you copied in the wrong way, replacing your main database with the backup. However if your backup was 1 week old, then you should not have lost all messages since September 2013. Second possibility: PowerMail has switched to another database, which was a backup you made in September 2013. If your two external drives were still mounted when you started PM, then maybe the 2013 backup was on one of these drives; if not, then the 2013 backup was on your internal drive. How PowerMail can switch to another database? Multiple possibilities: - you switched manually from the file / database / switch user environment menu, then selected your 2013 backup - you switched manually by double-clicking in the Finder the Message Database file from your 2013 backup - you used Spotlight, which found a message in this backup, and opened the message - if your main drive is entirely cloned (which software are you using for this?), and you boot from your backup drive, then maybe at some point there will be a confusion between two drives, and the database has been opened from the cloned drive instead of the main drive. But again, if the clone is more recent than 2013, then you should not have lost recent messages. As previously suggested, launch PM then use the file / database / switch user environment menu. The open dialog will point to the location of the currently used database. You will see on which drive it is, and in which folder, and you can select your main database if you are currently using an old backup. You can search in the Finder for files named Message Database to see if you have multiple copies on your drive. I suggest that you first zip each PowerMail folder containing those database, to be sure you don't destroy anything, then double-click on a Message Database file to open it (PM will then switch to this database) and see if it contains your recent messages. If you find obsolete backups, you can keep a zipped version, but delete the uncompressed one to be sure to never again switch to it inadvertently. PS: Looking at the Message databases in my PM folder, there is only one labeled Message Database,” but one is labeled “Message Database.old” and both show today as when last modified. The .old files are created when you compact your database. You can try to delete the files without the .old extension, then remove .old from the name, to restore the database to its state before the last compact (there are 4 of them: Message Database, Address Database, Server-side Database, and Setup Database; do this for the 4!). Of course, when you do this, PM should not be running, and make sure to zip the containing folder first to have a backup. I hope you will find your messages back! Jérôme - CTM Engineering - The searching is fairly flexible on iOS and the speed is blinding. I mean instant, like you've got a Mac Pro doing it. If you use Foxtrot Search, get FoxTrot Attaché. If you don't use Foxtrot Search and you have a lot of files to search, check it out. FoxTrot Attaché Search user comment on iTunes Store UK Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: Forwarding a mail with full header and attachments
Frank Mitchell wrote: OK, the Redirect option in Power Mail's menu bar sounds to me most likely to do what Apple wants. I'll try that. But is there a way to check whether the full header and attachments were mailed with it or not? Yes, redirect will send the message to the new recipient as it it was the original one (with the exception of the from field, indicating [original sender] by way of [yourself]). This is different than forward as attachment, but this will be OK in this case. The alternative is to export the selected messages to unix mailbox format, then to send this mailbox file as an attachment. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - Foxtrot is amazingly fast, and the built-in highlighting is a fantastic idea. Constantin von Wentzel, Arlington MA Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: Fwd: HTML printing
DDV wrote: This is how French text looks in the html mail message and in plain text: je suis désolé, ça n'a pas marché avec la chambre à laquelle je pensais. This is how the mail looks when printed and when viewed in web browser: je suis désolé, ça n'a pas marché avec la chambre à laquelle je pensais. Are you printing directly from PowerMail, or from the web browser after using view message in web browser? In the later case, you may try to force the browser to interpret the file as UTF-8. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - Foxtrot Professional Search is a fantastic application. I simply couldn't live without it. FoxTrot Professional Search user comment Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: SpamSieve or spam download problem
Anna Silliman wrote: I'm guessing that it doesn't matter to me not to have HTML indexing? Anything with no text is probably Spam anyway. So this sounds like a perfectly fine solution. Some messages have an HTML version, and a plain text version for email clients that can't display HTML; some other messages only have an HTML version. If you disable HTML indexing, messages with no plain text version won't be searchable. Newsletters and commercial messages tend to be HTML only, while personal messages usually have a plain text part. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - With FoxTrot I find files I do not find with Spotlight. With FoxTrot I do not get swamped with 2000 found files in one bunch, under Documents and now I have to scroll through a long list - with FoxTrot I can quickly and easy narrow my search. With FoxTrot with one click I can see a preview with the search term highlighted. One of the very important reasons I like FoxTrot is that it's results seem so much more appropriate. And searches in FoxTrot returns are almost instantly - way way faster than in Spotlight Marlyse Comte, FoxTrot Personal Search user Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: SpamSieve or spam download problem
Anna Silliman wrote: You are right, it's not SpamSieve. I disabled spam filtering and the problem still occurs. I took a look at the sample you sent me, and the hang occurs when indexing the HTML part of the blank message. The hang itself is inside WebKit, that is used by the API PowerMail uses to extract text from the HTML part. The only workaround I can see at this time is to disable HTML indexing in PowerMail's preferences. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - After a month of Tiger, I'd gone back to CTM's excellent FoxTrot Personal Search for finding documents by content Andrew Orlowski - www.reghardware.co.uk Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: View message in web browser
T.L. Miller wrote: I have repaired permissions twice with Disk Utility and also run Disk Warrior, and Top Sites still comes up in Safari. I don't know if the problem is in PM or Safari. It's only an irritation, not a show-stopper. What happens when you double-click an .html file from the Finder? You may try to rebuild your LaunchServices database. OnyX can do this. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - I would like to comment that FoxTrot is so far superior to Spotlight in every way that without it, I would probably have to go back to Windows (shudder) since the ability to search my own files is mission critical. Steven Merley, FoxTrot Personal Search user Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: View message in web browser
T.L. Miller wrote: Lately, when I choose to view a message in my web browser, Safari gives me Top Sites instead of the message. I can't figure out how to get it to perform as it used to. Strange; have you tried to repair your disk permissions? Jérôme - CTM Engineering - FoxTrot is a must have for me. It is simply awesome! Type a few words and it finds and shows you the location in the files. Wow! Got love it. Thank you thank you thank you! FoxTrot Personal Search user comment on www.versiontracker.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: Spotlight can it be a problem?
I wrote: I don't know what you mean by running Spotlight (Spotlight always indexes your files in the background), but it should not interfere with PowerMail. Oh, if you opened a message found by Spotlight then yes, this could make FoxTrot switch to the user environment to which this message belongs. So, if Spotlight found a message on your backup drive, and you opened this message, then PowerMail would close its current database and switch to your backup database. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - When Google Desktop was released I immediately downloaded it. I was hoping to find something better than FoxTrot. What I found was that it didn't find many files that FoxTrot does find, and that the indexing process was uncontrollable, and it brought my Dual-Core MacBook Pro to its knees. The computer was almost unusable while it was being indexed. I understand that they have brought out a new version, but I have deleted it from my disk (and have turned off Spotlight indexing in the FoxTrot preference panel). I don't often need an indexed search of my disk, but when I do, FoxTrot is hands down the best. Alan Harper, FoxTrot Personal Search user Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: Spotlight can it be a problem?
T.L. Miller wrote: I suspect running Spotlight has really messed up my PowerMail database. All was normal, but after I ran Spotlight tonight, it looks like a couple years of messages and folders have disappeared. Other messages from past years appear as unread. I do have a back-up from Sunday, but I'm wondering if I should avoid running Spotlight. Any fixes? I don't know what you mean by running Spotlight (Spotlight always indexes your files in the background), but it should not interfere with PowerMail. When some messages magically appear, disappear, get read/unread or moved to another folder, the first thing to verify is that you are not using an (outdated) backup of your PowerMail files. Select the menu file / database / switch user environment, and verify the folder currently selected in the Open dialog is the one you intend to use, typically on your home's Library/Mail folder. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - I sleep much better since I don't feel quite as disorganized. FoxTrot Professional Search user comment on macupdate.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: PM consistently hangs with POP/Yosemite
Bob Parks wrote:
Several times a
day, PM hangs up while downloading a message. PM becomes totally non
responsive and has to be force quit. It seems like the same message is
hanging it up every time, but its hard to tell.
The sample logs you sent me show that the hang occurs when trying to call
SpamSieve to evaluate if the message is spam.
Quit PowerMail, delete the {home}/Library/Application Support/PowerMail
folder, launch SpamSieve, then launch PowerMail again. This should fix the
problem.
Jérôme - CTM Engineering
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As someone who's in the business of receiving and (ideally) responding
to 50 - 100 emails a day, through three different accounts, using
three different ports. As, someone who's in a constant state of
disorganzation, always losing, confusing, and misusing. As someone who
had to jump between OS9 and OSX machines for much longer than it was
in vogue, and needed his email to jump with him. As a Mac user who's
email is his bread and butter, and sometimes needs it to work better
than he does. I find Powermail to be simply invaluable.
J. Vernet, PowerMail user
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Re: PM consistently hangs with POP/Yosemite
Bob Parks wrote: I did grab several samples if anyone wants to see them. CPU use is a small fraction of a percent. Yes please, you can send me the samples in a private email. Kind regards Jérôme - CTM Engineering - I use PM from years and I can say it is the best mail client. It has its roots in EMailer and is fantastic. PowerMail user comment on www.versiontracker.com Download a demo version from www.ctmdev.com -
Re: Attachments not kept in order
Winston Weinmann wrote: When I select a group of files as attachments to an email, PowerMail reorders them, seemingly in a random order. Are you adding the attachments using the the add attachments toolbar button or menu, or by drag and drop from the Finder? Are you adding them one at a time, or with a multiple selection? If you add them one at a time, the order should be preserved. If you add a selection from the Finder, the order should be preserved as well, but this may depend how you selected the files in the finder (drag-select, command click, shift click, icon view or list view etc). If you add the selection from the add attachments dialog, I think PowerMail receives the file in alphabetical order, and there is nothing we can do about it. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - Powermail soon became the most indispensable program in my life, and now that I've upgraded to the newest version, I'm pleased to report that it's gotten even better. PowerMail user comment on www.versiontracker.com Download a demo version from www.ctmdev.com -
Re: Export Address Book
Chris wrote: I assumed that PM would create a file which I then had to import into Apple Address book which is normal behaviour for this sort of thing. It never occurred to me that it would automatically do it and AFAICT it doesn't. Apple Address Book (now named Contacts) manages both your iCloud contacts, and the local address book (which is where PM exports); make sure to display groups (show groups in the View menu), and check if your PowerMail contacts have been imported to On My Mac. If so, you can then copy them to iCloud. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - Try Foxtrot Personal Search... 1000 times better than spotlight or GoogleDesktop. FoxTrot Personal Search user comment on http://emperor.tidbits.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: Copying HTML text
Winston Weinmann wrote: Increasingly I get HTML formatted emails that do not have a text version. It is very difficult to copy text from an HTML email in PowerMail. Yes, this is a hard to fix bug related to the use of WebKit in a Carbon PowerPlant application. It is usually possible to double-click on the first word to select, then shift-click on the last one. When this does not work, view the message in your web browser. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - The searching is fairly flexible on iOS and the speed is blinding. I mean instant, like you've got a Mac Pro doing it. If you use Foxtrot Search, get FoxTrot Attaché. If you don't use Foxtrot Search and you have a lot of files to search, check it out. FoxTrot Attaché Search user comment on iTunes Store UK Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: Error -10004
Karsten Liere wrote:
just a quick question. I just installed 10.10 on my Mac and starting
PowerMail I get the Error -10004. However, PM is behaving just fine
after clicking OK.
This is an AppleEvent error, so it may be related to SpamSieve, or maybe a mail
filter that triggers an AppleScript. You can try to quit both PM and SS, then
delete the folder {home}/Library/Application Support/PowerMail; relaunch SS,
then PM.
Kind regards
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Indeed!! FoxTrot takes Spotlight to another level entirely!!
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Re: PowerMail on Yosemite?
Geoff Roynon wrote: Here’s the beginning of the latest crash log: This crash seems related to your address book database. Try to replace the Address Database file in your PowerMail folder from a backup. Kind regards Jérôme - CTM Engineering - I'm using FoxTrot for a while now and I'm very pleased with its results. It indexes files (by name, metadata and content) that are not indexed by other app like Spotlight, HoudahSpot, Moru, etc. That includes the contents of packages, like the files stored in DEVONthink or Scrivener. For someone that needs to acess these kind of files and preview some of them (mail, pdfs, rtf, docs, or even xls in a very strange way) this is a very useful application that saves you a lot of time. FoxTrot Personal Search user comment on http://osx.iusethis.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: Disappearing email problem
Frank Mitchell wrote: As an example, my son sent me an email, I opened the email, wrote a reply and sent it to him. But, when I then looked for my son's original mail in my In-Tray to move it with my reply to a different folder, it had disappeared. You probably have view unread checked in the View menu. This is a per-folder setting. When I used command-F to search in selected folder (In Tray) only for all emails with my son's name included in the From field, nothing happened. When you search in a specific folder, and this folder is set to view unread, then the search results will only show unread messages. Yes, this could be considered as a bug because it is not intuitive, and you can't toggle view all/view unread for the search results window. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - FoxTrot is the one app with which I would have to go back to the PC because Spotlight is so profoundly useless for serious research (don't get me started). FoxTrot steps in and does about everything I need to and does it quickly and with grace. Everytime I have emailed the devs, I get a timely and responsive answer. I have a few quibbles of course such as the use of non-standard Boolean operators (| instead of OR for example) but overall I am very, very pleased. Believe me, I am a serous researcher and this is what you want! FoxTrot Personal Search user comment on www.versiontracker.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: Spotlight Messed Up PowerMail
T.L. Miller wrote: Since I had this problem (below) I have tried the full first aid treatment -- low level DB rebuild, etc., etc. several times. During the low level review I always get this error message: Class=DB ; what = 100; when = 100; err = 493 but after that it performs all the other functions. Does this error message indicate that PM will likely have catastrophic problems in the near future? As explained in the confirmation dialog, low level data database rebuild should only be used if you have trouble compacting your database. This error code may be related to a file permission problem on a temporary file, but I am not sure and I can't tell more. If you are note 100% confident on your database, you can run archive and cleanup to export all your messages and settings to a new PM user environment, then use the newly created database with imported messages. Yesterday I was looking for a file on my iMac using Spotlight, and it showed a PowerMail message that I thought would help me find that file. I clicked on it and PowerMail did not like it! Some of PM's folders disappeared, messages in other folders disappeared, fonts changed, etc. The found file was probably found in a backup of your current PM user environment, and when you opened it, PM switched to this database, that's why the recent messages are missing (I don't know why the font changed). When this occurs, go to file / database / switch user environment, and the file open dialog should reveal the location of the currently open database; select the default one instead. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - Powermail soon became the most indispensable program in my life, and now that I've upgraded to the newest version, I'm pleased to report that it's gotten even better. PowerMail user comment on www.versiontracker.com Download a demo version from www.ctmdev.com -
Re: Powermail Import not working
Geoff Roynon wrote:
I'm having problems trying to import a mailbox from Thunderbird. I have
exported the mailbox in eml format and tried using the File/Database/
Import function in Powermail. I go through all the steps but nothing
happens - no error message but no import either.
Thunderbird stores messages in the standard mailbox format, so PowerMail should
be able to import that directly. Choose Thunderbird as the import format,
then PowerMail should direct you to Thunderbird's mail folder (something like
{home}/Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/{something.default}/Mail/Local Folders).
Select this folder and import. A new folder called Local Folder should be
created, and should contain all your Thunderbird mailboxes as subfolders.
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I'm using FoxTrot for a while now and I'm very pleased with its results.
It indexes files (by name, metadata and content) that are not indexed by
other app like Spotlight, HoudahSpot, Moru, etc. That includes the
contents of packages, like the files stored in DEVONthink or Scrivener.
For someone that needs to acess these kind of files and preview some of
them (mail, pdfs, rtf, docs, or even xls in a very strange way) this is
a very useful application that saves you a lot of time.
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Re: PowerMail 6.2.1 build 4668 on X.9.0 Issue
Joseph Farias wrote: It's strange. For awhile I was getting nowhere. I tried a previous backed up mailbase, every suggested fix, reinstalled the program, etc. The reinstall seemed to make it work for a short while. It was happening with all my email sources so it couldn't be an incoming corrupt email file. I thought the culprit was DragThing, then even SpamSeive. This morning it was hanging like crazy and had to constantly force quit. Before, it might come unglued after five minutes or so. But now I would give up after 20 minutes of 'spining.' Then without changing anything, it began to work again. Seems to be sporadic but very frustrating. When such a hang occurs, open Activity Monitor from the Applications/Utilities folder. - Select the PowerMail process in the processes list - From the View menu, select Sample Process - Save the result in a text file, and send it to me. Kind regards Jérôme - CTM Engineering - Try Foxtrot Personal Search... 1000 times better than spotlight or GoogleDesktop. FoxTrot Personal Search user comment on http://emperor.tidbits.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: [ANN] PowerMail 6.2.1b1 available for testing
Geoff Roynon wrote: Every time I start this version of PowerMail it crashes and I have to click on the Reopen button to get it going. Karsten Liere wrote: Same here - I've sent the crash log, however, have yet not received an answer. Are there other people also having this problem? Jérôme - CTM Engineering - Foxtrot is amazingly fast, and the built-in highlighting is a fantastic idea. Constantin von Wentzel, Arlington MA Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: Index file problem
Peter Lovell wrote: for a few days now I have experienced a problem where PowerMail can't open the index file. The sequence of dialogs is ... I have performed the various database rebuilds but the problem remains. It occurs when I try to connect to iCloud SMTP server and also if I try a search. There is a separate search index for each IMAP account, and it seems it is corrupted. PowerMail First Aid only rebuilds the main index (for POP retrieved messages). To rebuild the search index of an IMAP account, clear the cache (clear now button) in the Mail Accounts window for this account. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - Powermail's search capabilities, already mind-boggling fast, seem to be even faster. You'll never say I think I have that in an email somewhere, ever again. Because, you'll know in a half second. PowerMail user comment on www.versiontracker.com Download a demo version from www.ctmdev.com -
Re: Incoming email crashes PowerMail
Winston Weinmann wrote: There are emails from one source (airline sale announcement) that regularly crash PowerMail when I try to download it. Can you send me the raw message source of one of these messages? If the message is still present on the server, you can get it by retrieving the message with Apple Mail, then choose the file / save as menu, and select the raw message source format. Thanks for the report Jérôme - CTM Engineering - Foxtrot Professional Search is a fantastic application. I simply couldn't live without it. FoxTrot Professional Search user comment Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: Cannot get part of emailing script to work: to recipient and cc recipient
PM FT wrote:
I am having problems with setting the to recipient and cc recipient.
Try this:
make new message with properties {subject:Hello!, recipient:{{recipient
type:cc recipient, address:{display name:Mr Foo, email
address:f...@foo.com}}, {recipient type:to recipient, address:{display
name:Mr Bar, email address:b...@bar.com
Jérôme - CTM Engineering
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FoxTrot is way better and faster than Spotlight and seriously more
usable. With around 20 docs on my 60Gig drive, using Spotlight
is just hopeless.
Searches with FoxTrot are just instantaneous and you can view them in
all sorts of ways. The preview is just wonderful.
FoxTrot Personal Search user comment on www.versiontracker.com
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Re: Reliability under Mountain Lion
Daniele Procida wrote: I am finding that I am getting regular crashes from PowerMail, a program that rarely gave me any trouble. Version 6.1.5b1 should have brought more stability when displaying HTML messages, especially when dragging an unread HTML message to the trash or to another folder. If some of you still have recurrent crashes, please let us know! Kind regards Jérôme - CTM Engineering - I recently have purchased a license of FoxTrot Professional and it's really one of the best software investments I've made. [...] With FoxTrot I can find the context in the document I'm looking for, and not just the file to search in it. And the time scroll also lets me narrow the results, in real time. FoxTrot Professional Search user comment on macupdate.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: Should have been smarter!!! Lost stuff.
T.L. Miller wrote: Looks like all my messages since July 30, 2012 have disappeared. That is strange; did you have some error messages or something? As described, I would think that PowerMail has switched to a backup of your database at this date; make sure the good database is selected in File/Database/Switch User Environment. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - As someone who's in the business of receiving and (ideally) responding to 50 - 100 emails a day, through three different accounts, using three different ports. As, someone who's in a constant state of disorganzation, always losing, confusing, and misusing. As someone who had to jump between OS9 and OSX machines for much longer than it was in vogue, and needed his email to jump with him. As a Mac user who's email is his bread and butter, and sometimes needs it to work better than he does. I find Powermail to be simply invaluable. J. Vernet, PowerMail user Download a demo version from www.ctmdev.com -
Re: Croatian
Matthias Schmidt wrote: what do I need to do to write Croatian in PM? When I do it now, I get huge letters, like 72pts. I tried several settings, but nothing worked. In the Display preferences, select For script: Central Europe Roman, then choose an appropriate font. The problem is that PowerMail does not use a unicode text engine, so you need to use a traditional font for eastern Europe, and I am not sure such fonts are still present by default on OS X. The default font that PowerMail used to use for eastern Europe is no longer present. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - With FoxTrot I find files I do not find with Spotlight. With FoxTrot I do not get swamped with 2000 found files in one bunch, under Documents and now I have to scroll through a long list - with FoxTrot I can quickly and easy narrow my search. With FoxTrot with one click I can see a preview with the search term highlighted. One of the very important reasons I like FoxTrot is that it's results seem so much more appropriate. And searches in FoxTrot returns are almost instantly - way way faster than in Spotlight Marlyse Comte, FoxTrot Personal Search user Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: Powermail keeps quitting
Robert Bauer wrote:
My version of Powermail 6.1.3 fails and quits on me at least 4 times a
day now that I am on OS 10.8.1 on my iMac. It is unpredictable and I am
constantly relaunching it. Any suggestions?
Can you send me a crash log? Crash logs are stored in your
{home}/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports folder. On OS X 10.7 or 10.8, press the
option key in the Go menu in order to see this Library folder.
Jérôme - CTM Engineering
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Totally reliable; extremely robust full text search; fast display
of results; capable of indexing huge document collections
FoxTrot Professional Search user comment on download.cnet.com
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Re: unknown error
Matthias Schmidt wrote: that's the problem, I suspect the index file. it happened out of the blue before and after the rebuilt. During the first rebuilt PM crashed then I changed the .old file names back and rebuilt again including index files, then I get the error again. Try to launch PowerMail with the command and option keys pressed, and check temporarily disable scheduled connections. You can also try the last two checkboxes to reset preferences. If PowerMail starts successfully, perform archive and cleanup (menu file / database) to copy your message and settings in a new clean environment. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - The enterprise intranet search space has been a tough one for us to figure out, so we are grateful to have a Mac developer provide such a compelling alternative to the overpriced Google Search Appliance. FoxTrot Search Server user comment Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: unknown error
Matthias Schmidt wrote: what's that for an error: class=file, what=1, when=100, err=-37 after I made a basic rebuilt of the database, PM is crashing: System error -37 is bad file name passed to routine; there may be no bad names in the final system!. Obviously, there may be bad names in the final system... but I have no idea on what file this could happen. Did this error occur after rebuilding, or did you try to rebuild to fix the error? In the later case, do you remember the circonstances where it occurred? Jérôme - CTM Engineering - I used to spend hours and hours looking for a file that I swear that I had on one of my drives, but just could not locate. FoxTrot Personal Search has saved me countless hours of frustration. I strongly recommend this to anyone who is tired of misplacing files and then having that bad feeling when you can't find it. FoxTrot Personal Search user comment on download.cnet.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: Problem w/ Find Function
T.L. Miller wrote: I keep the numbers of my 10 lotto tickets in a 6.1.3 PM folder and do a Find in the Body (includes at least one of) after every lotto drawing. This has worked fine for years, but not today. I have rebuilt the DB twice, asked it to Update the Search Index. I'm not aware of any changes since it worked fine. Rebuild your search index by launching PowerMail while pressing the command and option keys, and checking the Rebuild the search index checkbox. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - I'm using FoxTrot for a while now and I'm very pleased with its results. It indexes files (by name, metadata and content) that are not indexed by other app like Spotlight, HoudahSpot, Moru, etc. That includes the contents of packages, like the files stored in DEVONthink or Scrivener. For someone that needs to acess these kind of files and preview some of them (mail, pdfs, rtf, docs, or even xls in a very strange way) this is a very useful application that saves you a lot of time. FoxTrot Personal Search user comment on http://osx.iusethis.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: PM Update Broken
Anthony R Sanna wrote: What has happened to PowerMail? I'm writing this from Apple's Mail because as soon as I downloaded the latest CTM update, PowerMail 6.1.2 build 4650, it broke. It won't send. It won't receive. It can't remember passwords. What's up? It doesn't like Mountain Lion. Sorry for this; updating PowerMail to be compatible with Gatekeeper (on 10.8) broke the compatibility with the Keychain on 10.6. Fixing this then broke compatibility with the Keychain on 10.7 and 10.8. Version 6.1.3 is now available from the update menu, and should bring back compatibility with the Keychain on all OS versions. Thanks for the reports Jérôme - CTM Engineering - With FoxTrot, I was finding files that I didn't remember having. It was waay better than Google Desktop search. FoxTrot Professional Search user comment on macupdate.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: IMAP stuff
Peter Lovell wrote: - I tried to make a filter to copy new mail from the IMAP InBox to the regular In Tray. Mail filters can't be applied on an IMAP mailbox; they only work on messages stored in local folders. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - FoxTrot is enormously superior to Spotlight. (...) Much more efficient than Spotlight in narrowing down search results to highlight just the ones you want. (...) Absolutely first class product. FoxTrot Personal Search user comment on www.versiontracker.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: Do Text Signatures work?
Winston Weinmann wrote: The buttons you show in that screen shot are not on my Text Signatures window. I only have the normal round close (red), hide (yellow) and size (green) buttons at the top of the window. The toolbar has probably been hidden; unfortunately, Apple has decided to remove oval button at the right of the window title bar in 10.7, so you have to use the View / Show Toolbar menu to reveal it. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - As someone who's in the business of receiving and (ideally) responding to 50 - 100 emails a day, through three different accounts, using three different ports. As, someone who's in a constant state of disorganzation, always losing, confusing, and misusing. As someone who had to jump between OS9 and OSX machines for much longer than it was in vogue, and needed his email to jump with him. As a Mac user who's email is his bread and butter, and sometimes needs it to work better than he does. I find Powermail to be simply invaluable. J. Vernet, PowerMail user Download a demo version from www.ctmdev.com -
Re: powermail-discuss Digest #2979 - 03/23/12
Ben Kennedy wrote: Simply do a select all in the message list, and you might see the logo icon drawing beneath the x messages placard. This is a bug introduced in 10.7.3: icons are no longer clipped when drawn at the limit (or off the limit) of a scrolling view. This bug has been fixed in 10.8 DP 2, although another bug has been introduced, the icons are clipped but semi transparent pixels are drawn as opaque, so this is not very nice either. But we can hope Apple will fix this in 10.7.4... Jérôme - CTM Engineering - I've used PowerMail for over 10 years; it is a simple, elegant program that has made every necessary upgrade over the years in a nearly transparent, flawless form. It runs cleanly, never hogs resources, and does exactly what I tell it to. Beth Livingston, PowerMail user Download a demo version from www.ctmdev.com -
Re: [ANN] PowerMail 6.1.1b2 available for testing
Sean McBride wrote: I've noticed one regression: when doing 'show thread' (cmd-opt-t) the window that pops up doesn't show the right messages. I forget if I was in 10.7 or 10.8, but it reproduced every time. Show Thread performs a search by subject (or by In-reply-to, References or Message-Id header, when pressing the shift key). So, it seems that your search index needs to be rebuilt. If someone else has the same problem with 6.1.1b2, please let us know! Thanks for the report Jérôme - CTM Engineering - It's so fast and the results so complete (on my early 2008 MacBook Pro) that no other desktop search product is worth paying for. FoxTrot Professional Search user comment on macupdate.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: redraw issues on 10.7.3
Sean McBride, Anyone else seeing redrawing issues, especially scrolling tables, when running on 10.7.3? Yes, 10.7.3 had a number of bugs related to drawing icons. Some were fixed in build 11D50b, but not this one. We have sent a bug report to Apple. Another bug introduced in 10.7.3 displays empty buttons for the zoom in / zoom out buttons on the bottom of the browser. We have found a workaround for this one. PowerMail 6.1.1 will be released soon. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - I'd been using Entourage X ever since switching to Macs 2 years ago and was growing frustrated with its slow searches and increasing instability as my database grew. Decided to look for an alternative and tried Mail, MailSmith, Thunderbird and PowerMail. Settled on PowerMail and am extremely happy with this application. PowerMail user comment on www.versiontracker.com Download a demo version from www.ctmdev.com -
Re: Comments on upgrade to PowerMail 6
Winston Weinmann wrote: 3. Dragging a message from the In Tray to a folder doesn't show the message dragging. We changed how messages are dragged for Lion compatibility, however we did not found any problem with the new method on 10.4.11, 10.5 or 10.6, on PowerPC or on Intel. Maybe you have some third party extension causing this? Jérôme - CTM Engineering - Incredibly powerful and useful. If you're thinking Yeah, I have Spotlight, and it was free then think again. FoxTrot is instantaneous. It lets you do those good boolean searches that Spotlight makes impossible to do (or to remember how to do). I can't believe how fast it finds Mail messages, and then shows me the subject line, mailbox location, and the full text of the message in preview. FoxTrot Personal Search user comment on www.macupdate.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: AppleScript Sender Question
Tom Dillon wrote: When using the scrip below, the variable 'theSender' is always populated with what looks like Chinese characters rather than the sender's name and email address as I would have expected. If you examine carefully PowerMail's dictionary in AppleScript Editor, you will see that the type of sender is not text, but address; address itself has two text properties: display name and email address. So the correct syntax is something like this: set theFD to return -- return tell application PowerMail set theMessages to current messages repeat with msg in theMessages set theSender to sender of msg set theTitle to subject of msg as text set theTime to time received of msg as text set theBody to content of msg as text set theText to (display name of theSender) (email address of theSender) theFD theTitle theFD theTime theFD theBody theFD set the clipboard to theText end repeat end tell Jérôme - CTM Engineering - After a month of Tiger, I'd gone back to CTM's excellent FoxTrot Personal Search for finding documents by content Andrew Orlowski - www.reghardware.co.uk Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: PowerMail 6 on G4 Mac running OS 10.4
Winston, Can I run PowerMail 6 on a 1.5 GHz G4 PowerBook with Mac OS 10.4.11? Yes I paid for PM 6, but can't get it to install. When I try to copy PM 6 to my Applications folder I get the message: The alias Resources cannot be copied to the destination, perhaps because the destination does not support this type of alias. Strange; are you copying it directly from the disk image to the application folder? I would guess from this message that the application was copied to/from a FAT (windows) volume, such as an USB stick, or something like this. I'm also having a problem trying to install FoxTrot Personal Search. The web site is not clear which version I should use. The later version (3.4?) won't work, and the previous version (2.6) won't accept the registration code I received via Kagi. FoxTrot 3.2.1 requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later. FoxTrot 2.6 requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later. You have a FoxTrot 3 license code, so we will send you a FoxTrot 2 license code as well. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - Incredibly powerful and useful. If you're thinking Yeah, I have Spotlight, and it was free then think again. FoxTrot is instantaneous. It lets you do those good boolean searches that Spotlight makes impossible to do (or to remember how to do). I can't believe how fast it finds Mail messages, and then shows me the subject line, mailbox location, and the full text of the message in preview. FoxTrot Personal Search user comment on www.macupdate.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: PowerMail in OS X Lion?
Mirko Kranenburg wrote: Previously, when Apple messed with WebKit, PowerMail often misbehaved. Any insights in the outlook for PowerMail under Lion? We have not found any difference in PowerMail on Lion concerning WebKit or HTML messages. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - I'd been using Entourage X ever since switching to Macs 2 years ago and was growing frustrated with its slow searches and increasing instability as my database grew. Decided to look for an alternative and tried Mail, MailSmith, Thunderbird and PowerMail. Settled on PowerMail and am extremely happy with this application. PowerMail user comment on www.versiontracker.com Download a demo version from www.ctmdev.com -
Re: Change Body Text?
Tom Dillon wrote: How can I change the body of a received message? set content of msg to pasteboard Jérôme - CTM Engineering - Foxtrot Professional Search has rapidly become an almost indispensable tool in day to day work... FoxTrot Professional Search user comment Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: Database problems
John Keegan wrote: Does Powermail Salvage even work on Intel Macs? On Powermail 6 message databases? No, unfortunately, PowerMail Salvage does not work for PowerMail 6 databases. You can try to create a new PowerMail User Environment (from the file / database menu), quit PowerMail, then copy your old Message Database file to this new folder, in the hope that the corrupted file was one of the other ones (address database etc). If that does not work, I don't see anything else you can try. Note that if your POP settings are to leave messages on the server for at least a few days or weeks, you should be able to re-download messages received after your last backup. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - FoxTrot is a must have for me. It is simply awesome! Type a few words and it finds and shows you the location in the files. Wow! Got love it. Thank you thank you thank you! FoxTrot Personal Search user comment on www.versiontracker.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: [ANN] PowerMail 6.0.6b1 for testing
Don Zahniser wrote: When viewing a message in its own window (the clone of the Claris Emailer message window), if I choose a folder from the pick list to file the message, the immediate rectangle around the selected folder in the pick list remains visible superimposed on the message window after the folder is chosen and the pick list otherwise disappears. This will also be fixed in version 6.0.6b2. Thanks for the report Jérôme - CTM Engineering - I now save countless hours of searching and have the confidence to know that if FoxTrot doesn't turn it up, I don't have the file. FoxTrot Professional Search user comment on macupdate.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: [ANN] PowerMail 6.0.6b1 for testing
Ben Kennedy wrote: Apparently it also includes Sparkle support (that didn't used to exist previously, did it?) PowerMail was previously using an older version of Sparkle; the newer version can optionally send us anonymous system information statistics, and can install updates automatically. if I do a Paste of some text into a message, then do a Select All, the Cut and Copy commands are subsequently unavailable This will be fixed. Thanks for the report Jérôme - CTM Engineering - I would like to comment that FoxTrot is so far superior to Spotlight in every way that without it, I would probably have to go back to Windows (shudder) since the ability to search my own files is mission critical. Steven Merley, FoxTrot Personal Search user Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: Database problems
Don Zahniser wrote: Everything seemed to work except the low-level rebuild. I got a series of errors, one for each database component that needed rebuilding. In each case, the error codes were the same: Class-DB what=100 err=130 Low-level rebuild is currently broken. However, its only purpose it to fix some cases where compact database could fail. If you can successfully compact, verify the consistency, rebuild sort and search indices, then your database is safe. If you have troubles exporting the entire mail database in PowerMail Exchange format, you can try exporting one or a few folders at a time using the selected mail folders option. You can also search for messages in a given date range, mail account etc, then select them in the search result window, and export the selected messages. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - Foxtrot Professional Search is a fantastic application. I simply couldn't live without it. FoxTrot Professional Search user comment Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: Two New Problems Discovered since 6.0.5
Tim Lapin wrote: I went to the website and while I could not find a specific answer to my question, I did find an entry for a new option involving filter logs. Joy! I was all set to use the filter log but then I noticed that I don't seem to have the menu entry for that either. To debug this problem, save an outgoing message as draft, then go in the Out Tray, and control-option-click the draft message to perform all filters with logging enabled. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - Foxtrot is the product that Spotlight could have and should have been but isn't. (...) If you are tired of dancin' with Spotlight, it is time to do the Foxtrot FoxTrot Personal Search user comment on www.versiontracker.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: nested folder path syntax for apple script
m. osti wrote: i'm not so confident with apple script i _just_ need to put a nested folder path in a field but havent had a good time. property fldrN : message container subfolder of message container parent folder Jérôme - CTM Engineering - With FoxTrot I find files I do not find with Spotlight. With FoxTrot I do not get swamped with 2000 found files in one bunch, under Documents and now I have to scroll through a long list - with FoxTrot I can quickly and easy narrow my search. With FoxTrot with one click I can see a preview with the search term highlighted. One of the very important reasons I like FoxTrot is that it's results seem so much more appropriate. And searches in FoxTrot returns are almost instantly - way way faster than in Spotlight Marlyse Comte, FoxTrot Personal Search user Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: nested folder path syntax for apple script
m. osti wrote:
got me an error (container underlined) in english should be waiting for
an end of line etc got an ID (identificativo in italian)
just to have more chances next time the right path should be: message
container italy of message container europe of message container
world??
Well, you can't specify a folder path as a single string, you should
refer to the folder from its parent folder. For example:
property subj : just try
property msgTxt : ta da da
property rTo : name it...@me.com
property acct : kk
property parentFolder : parent folder name
property childFolder : child folder name
tell application PowerMail
set the newM to make new message with properties
{subject:subj, content:msgTxt, recipient:rTo, account:acct}
at message container childFolder of message container parentFolder
open the newM
end tell
If you need to describe the folder path as a string, and the depth of
the hierarchy is variable, you have to parse the string yourself:
property subj : just try
property msgTxt : ta da da
property rTo : name it...@me.com
property acct : kk
property folderPath : parent folder name\\child folder name
tell application PowerMail
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {\\}
set folderNames to text items of folderPath
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {}
set target to application PowerMail
repeat with folderName in folderNames
set target to message container folderName of target
end repeat
set the newM to make new message with properties
{subject:subj, content:msgTxt, recipient:rTo, account:acct}
at target
open the newM
end tell
PS: the final version of 6.0.5 is available
Jérôme - CTM Engineering
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As someone who's in the business of receiving and (ideally) responding
to 50 - 100 emails a day, through three different accounts, using
three different ports. As, someone who's in a constant state of
disorganzation, always losing, confusing, and misusing. As someone who
had to jump between OS9 and OSX machines for much longer than it was
in vogue, and needed his email to jump with him. As a Mac user who's
email is his bread and butter, and sometimes needs it to work better
than he does. I find Powermail to be simply invaluable.
J. Vernet, PowerMail user
Download a demo version from www.ctmdev.com
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Re: Error -981
H.R. Riggs wrote: When I do a search, and click on a message in the search window, I often get Error -981 When I go to the Mail Browser window, and select the same message there, it does not happen. This error is about an invalid font. That is strange that it occurs only after a search. Is the message in HTML? Does it contain non ascii or roman characters? Have you tried validating all your fonts with Font Book? Jérôme - CTM Engineering - I searched for words inside text documents and was pleasantly surprised when those words were highlighted in the respective text, if viewed in the preview drawer. FoxTrot Personal Search review on www.softpedia.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: Error -981
Tobias Jung wrote: - When I double-click the message to open it in a new window, I get the error message. - But in the preview pane below the messages list, the message is displayed fine. Can you send me the raw message source of such a message? If the message is still present on the server, you can get it by retrieving the message with Apple Mail, then choose the file / save as menu, and select the raw message source format; or you can usually get the raw source if you have a webmail access to this account. I think (but I'm not sure) this happens when the message contains characters that aren't covered in the font that I've set to display messages: I use an old-style bitmap font for display which has a limited character set... that's why I didn't report this before, I just thought: Hey, you chose to use such an old-fashioned font, so don't complain if you're running into problems from time to time... Do you also get this error if you set your preferences to a different font? By the way, when such an message is displayed, it uses a font that I set up nowhere in PowerMail's preferences (Osaka Regular-Mono), so I guess PM automatically switches to font which has a rich character set... Osaka is defined in the preferences as the font to use for the japanese script (you can define a different font for each script). Jérôme - CTM Engineering - Super fast indexing that will find anything anywhere in the database, attractive output even with plain text (much better than Mail.app or Thunderbird), fast synching to IMAP server, easy spellcheck integration, many AppleScript options, numerous mail handling features, very intuitive and configurable process control. PowerMail user comment on www.macupdate.com Download a demo version from www.ctmdev.com -
Re: Cannot print my Emails...
Robert Bauer wrote: All I get is the word, SUBJECT at the top and the rest is blank. I narrowed down the problem to the setup database. You can try the Reset miscellaneous preferences in the First Aid dialog (by pressing the command and option keys during PowerMail startup). Jérôme - CTM Engineering - An altogether different indexer, and I find a more useful one, is FoxTrot by CTM. FoxTrot indexes files overnight instead of on the fly but if I have just created a file, I can usually find it, so I do not find that a limitation. Charles Maurer - FoxTrot user comment on http://emperor.tidbits.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: Bug with international letters eg. ISO-8859-1
Ulrik Larsen - Utopian. wrote: Here in Denmark, we now have the possibility to make international domaines now, with special scandinavian letters like 'æøå' (ae oe aa) .. But it seems that PowerMail 6.0.4 is not capable of handling this? PowerMail does not currently support international domain names or email addresses. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - I searched for words inside text documents and was pleasantly surprised when those words were highlighted in the respective text, if viewed in the preview drawer. FoxTrot Personal Search review on www.softpedia.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: powermail-discuss Digest #2835 - 03/30/10
Ulrik Larsen wrote: Running PM 6.0.4 on PowerMac G5 2x 1.8 Ghz... and this update sucks out the processor bigtime! Slowing the whole system down, even freezing whole Mac OSX 10.4.11 totally, so reboot was needed.. (application hang).. whats up? Does rebooting fixed the problem? If this occurs again, please open Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor, select PowerMail in the process list, then click the sample process button. Save the sample in a file and send it to us. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - Foxtrot Professional Search is a fantastic application. I simply couldn't live without it. FoxTrot Professional Search user comment Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: search index: account not searchable
MB wrote: After I rebuilt the search index during startup, when I search for my main gmail account and status is incoming in all local mail folders then PM finds nothing. I can search for words in the subject line or to/ from or similar, so the index isn't empty. I can search for account is not [any account name]. In the search results, the account column is empty. In the regular interface accounts are visible. So account doesn't seem to be a part of the search index. How can I verify that the search index is healthy? Try to verify the consistency of the database by pressing the command and option key during PM startup. Also, if you have deleted then re- created a mail account, messages retrieved with the old account are no longer associated with a mail account. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - Incredibly powerful and useful. If you're thinking Yeah, I have Spotlight, and it was free then think again. FoxTrot is instantaneous. It lets you do those good boolean searches that Spotlight makes impossible to do (or to remember how to do). I can't believe how fast it finds Mail messages, and then shows me the subject line, mailbox location, and the full text of the message in preview. FoxTrot Personal Search user comment on www.macupdate.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: trying to fix pop gmail problems - report, solution in sight
MB wrote: However, I renewed the settings for enabling POP also for messages that have been already downloaded. This is a possible culprit. PM and gmail obviously don't agree on what messages that have been downloaded because of PM prematurely disconnecting and the gmail servers may have recorded that all messages have been offered already and missed that the connection was dropped. It seems you have a misunderstanding of the retrieve messages left on the server again option of PowerMail. It will re-retrieve messages that Powermail has already retrieved on this account, but not deleted from the server. It has nothing to do with the read flag that gmail has on the server side, as this notion is not part of the POP3 protocol. Gmail does not know which messages have been downloaded by PowerMail. This option should only be used in some special circumstances: - messages are identified on the server side by a unique ID, but there may be some rare circumstances were some POP server re-use a (not-so) unique ID for a different message; in this case, PowerMail could miss some messages, thinking they have already been downloaded. In this situation, if you have configured PowerMail to *not* leave messages on the server, you can enable the retrieve messages left on the server again to be sure that no message will ever be missed. - if you have accidentally deleted some messages, and want to re- download them. In this case, however, you will get duplicates for messages still present on the server and locally. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - I have a variety of indexing and searching tools: Spotlight, PathFinder, EagleFiler. Foxtrot is just head and shoulders ahead of everything else in capability. It finds every instance of a search term within a document and highlights them and allows you to jump from instance to instance and even gives a popup menu that shows all the instances in a short context. FoxTrot Personal Search user comment on www.versiontracker.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: trying to fix pop gmail problems - report, solution in sight
Tom Bulat wrote: Use secure connection on a dedicated secure port: 995 (Use port checked) Outgoing: authenticate (same as ingoing) Use secure connection on a dedicated secure port: 465 (Use port checked) In my case, the my ISP did not allow a STARTTLS Comand The STARTTLS command is normally used on the standard ports (port 110 for POP, 143 for IMAP, 25 for SMTP). When using special ports (995 for POP, 993 for IMAP, 465 for SMTP), the STARTTLS command should not be used; check use a dedicated secure port instead. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - Foxtrot is the product that Spotlight could have and should have been but isn't. (...) If you are tired of dancin' with Spotlight, it is time to do the Foxtrot FoxTrot Personal Search user comment on www.versiontracker.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: Problem with regex match
Ben Kennedy wrote: I am trying to auto-junk attachments whose names are like image 123.jpg. I have a filter with criterion [attachment name] [matches the search pattern] and this pattern: image [0-9]+\.(png|gif|jpg) search pattern here is not a grep regexp, but a FoxTrot search pattern: http://www.ctmdev.com/powermail/manual/foxtrot_search_patterns.html Jérôme - CTM Engineering - Wow, this is an amazing application. I have been looking for a fast local search tool that provides live previews and FoxTrot does the trick. I often have to search thousands of pages of developer references to find answers and this is the only search program I have found that is worth keeping open on my desktop. FoxTrot Personal Search user comment on www.macupdate.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: PM Truncates Text String
Giovanni Andreani wrote: I've just added a new mail account that has a quite long domain name. In the Mail Accounts window Receiving tab Incoming mail server field I've inserted the pop3. prefix followed by a 34 character string. There is a limit of 77 characters for the user account ID concatenated with incoming mail server. So, if your user account ID is 45 characters long and the incoming mail server 39 characters longs, you can't use them in PowerMail. One solution would be to put the IP address instead of the hostname, or to create a DNS alias for this hostname. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - I've used PowerMail for over 10 years; it is a simple, elegant program that has made every necessary upgrade over the years in a nearly transparent, flawless form. It runs cleanly, never hogs resources, and does exactly what I tell it to. Beth Livingston, PowerMail user Download a demo version from www.ctmdev.com -
Re: No SpamSieve
Tom Dillon wrote: It's gotten to where I have to replace the corrupted SpamSieve - Evaluate.scpt file once or more times a week. It's not that big of a problem, but I'm wondering how or why it's getting corrupted? Is PM writing to the AppleScript file? Yes, PM is writing to the script files, because some scripts have global properties whose value needs to be saved when quitting and restored when relaunching. But I don't know why sometimes a script file can get corrupted. If this happens regularly, you can set the script file permission to read only from the Finder's get info window. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - I searched for words inside text documents and was pleasantly surprised when those words were highlighted in the respective text, if viewed in the preview drawer. FoxTrot Personal Search review on www.softpedia.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: Upgrade info needed
Tom Bulat wrote: Actually, I don't think I use Growl either, but the error log mentions it as follows: Growl.framework is mentioned in the Binary Images section of the crash log because Growl integration is built in PowerMail, even if Growl is not installed itself, and not activated in PowerMail's settings. What is more relevant are the first lines of the thread that is indicated as crashed. Could you send me the complete log file privately? Jérôme - CTM Engineering - Wow, this is an amazing application. I have been looking for a fast local search tool that provides live previews and FoxTrot does the trick. I often have to search thousands of pages of developer references to find answers and this is the only search program I have found that is worth keeping open on my desktop. FoxTrot Personal Search user comment on www.macupdate.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: Error Logging
Tom Dillon wrote: I hate to sound like a broken record (anyone remember those?), but I sure would like a third option for error reporting. Rather than displaying and alert or nothing, log the error in an Error folder in the form of an email. The alert is a bit annoying and no record of an error occurring even more so. You can use Growl to display a non modal alert (you can change Growl's preferences if you want the alert to stick on screen or not). Growl can also be configured to log notifications: - stop Growl from it's System Preferences pane - type this command in Terminal.app: defaults write com.Growl.GrowlHelperApp GrowlLoggingEnabled -int 1 - start Growl from it's System Preferences pane With Mac OS X 10.5 or later, to view Growl logs relative to PowerMail: - in Console.app, create a new log database query (command-option-N) - Query name: Growl PowerMail - [Sender] [contains] GrowlHelperApp - click + - [Message] [contains] PowerMail: ( (two spaces between : and ( ) Jérôme - CTM Engineering - When Google Desktop was released I immediately downloaded it. I was hoping to find something better than FoxTrot. What I found was that it didn't find many files that FoxTrot does find, and that the indexing process was uncontrollable, and it brought my Dual-Core MacBook Pro to its knees. The computer was almost unusable while it was being indexed. I understand that they have brought out a new version, but I have deleted it from my disk (and have turned off Spotlight indexing in the FoxTrot preference panel). I don't often need an indexed search of my disk, but when I do, FoxTrot is hands down the best. Alan Harper, FoxTrot Personal Search user Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: Current Version?
A Sanna wrote: What's the current version of PM? I had 6.0.3b1 on my computer, and the PM updater replaced it with 6.0.2. Strange, it should have installed 6.0.3. What happen if you check for updates again (from the PowerMail menu)? Does anyone else have the same problem? Our web site is not yet up to date with 6.0.3. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - Being an old school Mac user, to me searching for a file is the good old Command-F. I never liked Sherlock and never really saw the need for fancy search software, but FoxTrot has made me think again. FoxTrot Personal Search review on www.softpedia.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: Powermail on OS X 10.6?
PowerMail 6.0.3b1 is now available (from the menu PowerMail / Check for Updates), and fixes the Quick Look bug on Snow Leopard. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - I'm using FoxTrot for a while now and I'm very pleased with its results. It indexes files (by name, metadata and content) that are not indexed by other app like Spotlight, HoudahSpot, Moru, etc. That includes the contents of packages, like the files stored in DEVONthink or Scrivener. For someone that needs to acess these kind of files and preview some of them (mail, pdfs, rtf, docs, or even xls in a very strange way) this is a very useful application that saves you a lot of time. FoxTrot Personal Search user comment on http://osx.iusethis.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: Powermail on OS X 10.6? - G3 Alert
Don Zahniser wrote: When I downloaded and installed 6.03b1, it immediately crashed on my PowerBook G3 (Pismo). We have recompiled PowerMail using the latest XCode on Snow Leopard. This might have introduced some incompatibility with old hardware, but we have only tested on G4 and intel. Any other G3 user out there? Jérôme - CTM Engineering - FoxTrot is the one app with which I would have to go back to the PC because Spotlight is so profoundly useless for serious research (don't get me started). FoxTrot steps in and does about everything I need to and does it quickly and with grace. Everytime I have emailed the devs, I get a timely and responsive answer. I have a few quibbles of course such as the use of non-standard Boolean operators (| instead of OR for example) but overall I am very, very pleased. Believe me, I am a serous researcher and this is what you want! FoxTrot Personal Search user comment on www.versiontracker.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: Eavesdropping on email
cheshirekat wrote: It claims to be able to know when the email was received, when it was opened, whether attachments were opened, and how long the email was opened for. Are they able to gather this information from PowerMail? There is no way for the sender to know if a plain text message has been read in PowerMail. If the message is an HTML message that contains an external picture (referenced by an URL to the image on a web server), then the server containing the image can notify the sender when the image is displayed by any email client (and if the URL contains a unique identifier, the sender can know wich recipient have displayed the image). You can disable external pictures in PowerMail's HTML preferences to avoid that. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - I finally downloaded and tried FoxTrot Personal Search. Way faster [than Spotlight], better results, easy to filter. In order to use FoxTrot properly, one clicks a preference to disable Spotlight. Everything on my computer has sped up immensely since I did so. FoxTrot Personal Search user comment on http://emperor.tidbits.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: database problems
H Ronald Riggs wrote: My computer crashed and now it says Your database file has not the expected format and it asks if I want to convert it. But conversion fails. Any help would be very helpful. Thanks. First, make a backup of your PowerMail database folder. Then press the command and option keys while launching PowerMail, and try some of checkboxes of the first group. If that does not help, try to remove the Address Database file from your PowerMail folder (in case your message database file is safe but another database file is corrupted), and relaunch PowerMail. If you still can't start PowerMail, and an Address Database.old file is also present, remove it also. Then you can try the same thing for the Server-side Database or Setup Database. Then, if a Message Database.old file is present in the backup you just made, remove the Message Database and Message Database.old file from your current folder, and replace them with a copy of the Message Database.old file from the backup, and remove the .old extension. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - FABULOUS PRODUCT ! Wonderful ! A real Spotlight Killer ! I'm now able to locate content in documents that I KNEW was there but Spotlight couldn't find. FoxTrot Personal Search is far more efficient and displays a preview of the file when you hiighlight it. Janie Angus, Nevada Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: Printing with too big font size
Urs Gruetzner wrote: The scaling in the page set up is only a first aid. I do not want for every print out first go to the page set up dialog, I want a wysiwyg printout with one inital mouse click as e.eg. Thunderbird does The page layout settings are persistant in PowerMail, you don't need to change them each time you want to print a message. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - Whoa!!! Seriously cool Indeed!! FoxTrot takes Spotlight to another level entirely!! FoxTrot Personal Search user comment on www.versiontracker.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: Printing with too big font size
Urs Gruetzner wrote: Printing mails the font size is too big for my gusto. I have not found where I make the settings for printing in smaller font size. You can change the scaling factor in the page setup dialog, if you want the print font size to be different than the screen font size. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - As someone who's in the business of receiving and (ideally) responding to 50 - 100 emails a day, through three different accounts, using three different ports. As, someone who's in a constant state of disorganzation, always losing, confusing, and misusing. As someone who had to jump between OS9 and OSX machines for much longer than it was in vogue, and needed his email to jump with him. As a Mac user who's email is his bread and butter, and sometimes needs it to work better than he does. I find Powermail to be simply invaluable. J. Vernet, PowerMail user Download a demo version from www.ctmdev.com -
Re: Can't compact database
Joe Hallett wrote: I am unable to run the archive and cleanup or compact database commands. The process appears to start normally, but after a short time it stops with the error message A database error occurred Class=DB ;what=100;when=9;err=158 If this error occurs during the export phase, a part of your database is probably corrupted. You can run archive and cleanup in multiple steps, to copy as much messages as possible to a new, clean database: - Select one folder (or a few folders), then search in the selected folders only for messages whose date received is older than 0 day. - then run archive and cleanup for all messages from the search result window, and import the archived message to a new PowerMail User Environment. Do not try to delete the archived messages or compact the corrupted database at this stage. - repeat these steps with a different set of folder until you are done, importing them to the same user environment. - if a specific folder can't be exported successfully, only export its oldest (or most recent) messages, by adjusting the date in the search dialog - instead of archiving folder by folder, you may prefere to search messages only by date, or by account etc… If some messages are archived multiple times, they will only be imported once to the archive. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - FoxTrot is enormously superior to Spotlight. (...) Much more efficient than Spotlight in narrowing down search results to highlight just the ones you want. (...) Absolutely first class product. FoxTrot Personal Search user comment on www.versiontracker.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: Scripts do not run in 6.0.2
George Henne wrote:
Today, after I started up my system, some of my script do not run. In
particular, the Delete Message Immediately script has stopped working. I
select the messages to delete, select Delete Message Immediately, and
nothing happens.
I don't know what is wrong, by you can try to delete the {home}/Library/
Application Support/PowerMail folder, then relaunch PowerMail, to
restore PowerMail's built in scripts.
Jérôme - CTM Engineering
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I searched for words inside text documents and was pleasantly surprised
when those words were highlighted in the respective text, if viewed in
the preview drawer.
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Re: How to retrieve messages from old Message Database?
Raphaël PAREJO wrote: I've saved in 2000 my messages (Powermail 3), but only the Message Database file... Can i retrieve these messages with only this unique Message Database file? Probably. - create a new folder in the Finder - put a copy of your PM3 message database file in this folder - switch user environment (menu file / database) and select this folder - After PowerMail 6 has converted it, you can export the messages to the PowerMail Exchange format, and import them to your current database If PM 6 has troubles to convert directly a message database from PM3, it may be necessary to open it with PM4 or PM5, which can be downloaded from: http://www.ctmdev.com/download/earlier_versions_archive.html. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - Foxtrot Professional Search has rapidly become an almost indispensable tool in day to day work... FoxTrot Professional Search user comment Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: SpamSieve don't work more since 6.0.1 update
Raphaël PAREJO wrote:
Since I've updated PowerMail to version 6.0.1, SpamSieve stopped working
with PowerMail. I don't understand why.
- emptying the Finder trash may solve the problem
- if not, quit PowerMail, then delete {home}/Library/Application
Support/PowerMail
Jérôme - CTM Engineering
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I would like to comment that FoxTrot is so far superior to Spotlight
in every way that without it, I would probably have to go back to
Windows (shudder) since the ability to search my own files is mission
critical.
Steven Merley, FoxTrot Personal Search user
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Re: HTML display in 6.0b3
Ben Kennedy wrote: The issues with HTML messages described below still persist in 6.0.1b1. Functionally, the most severe bug is with the duplicated header text being inserted into the reply. This will be fixed in the final 6.0.1. I still don't understand why it is insurmountable to render this in the same way as for plaintext messages. Surely it is a separate view being drawn in that case anyway? What is it about the HTML view that precludes drawing the same header at its top? Unfortunately, mixing a WebKit view with PowerPlant views is problematic (that's why clicking URLs or selecting text does not work reliably in the HTML view). So we chose to insert the header as HTML data, instead of using the same header view that we embed in the plain text view. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - I have a variety of indexing and searching tools: Spotlight, PathFinder, EagleFiler. Foxtrot is just head and shoulders ahead of everything else in capability. It finds every instance of a search term within a document and highlights them and allows you to jump from instance to instance and even gives a popup menu that shows all the instances in a short context. FoxTrot Personal Search user comment on www.versiontracker.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: Avoiding the 2GB limit
Jeremy Hughes wrote: Has anyone managed to export messages from PowerMail to Apple Mail? PowerMail 6 can export directly to Mail 3.x. With PowerMail 5, export to the unix mailbox format, then import in Mail.app from mbox files Jérôme - CTM Engineering - Foxtrot is the product that Spotlight could have and should have been but isn't. (...) If you are tired of dancin' with Spotlight, it is time to do the Foxtrot FoxTrot Personal Search user comment on www.versiontracker.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: 6.0 Crashing
Alan Harper wrote: PM 6 is crashing on me a few times a week. I can't discover any pattern to the crashes, but they are usually ( 50%) followed by a 6-minute reindexing when I relaunch PM. It makes it difficult to respond quickly to emails! Has anyone else found this? Any thoughts on how to minimize crashing? Version 6.0.1b1 should be more stable. It can't be downloaded from our web site, but you can check for updates using PM 6.0. Any feedback regarding crashes is welcome. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - I've been using Powermail for around 3 years now and find that it's extremely stable. The interface is clear and intuitive and not cluttered like other programs (Apple Mail and Eudora, e.g.). Filters work well, and it does all that one would expect from an email client. The program is robust and straightforward. It's a great application. PowerMail user comment on www.versiontracker.com Download a demo version from www.ctmdev.com -
Re: Long delay after clicking send message
Stéphane Terreaux wrote: I notice a small problem with PM6, which I have never seen before. When a new mail is ready and I click on the Send stamp button, I have to wait a long time before the new msg window closes and I can work with PM. A long time means, more or less, 2 minutes. Maybe you have an outgoing mail filter that executes an AppleScript that tells another process to send an AppleEvent to PowerMail. Such situation hangs PowerMail for exactly 2 minutes. Can you describe what your AppleScript is doing? Jérôme - CTM Engineering - I've been using Powermail for around 3 years now and find that it's extremely stable. The interface is clear and intuitive and not cluttered like other programs (Apple Mail and Eudora, e.g.). Filters work well, and it does all that one would expect from an email client. The program is robust and straightforward. It's a great application. PowerMail user comment on www.versiontracker.com Download a demo version from www.ctmdev.com -
Re: Long delay after clicking send message
Stéphane Terreaux wrote: Rebuild the search index (through the menu), no change (it looks like the command did nothing). The File / Database / Update Search Index menu does not rebuilds the search index, it updates it, in case background indexing is disabled in the preferences. To rebuild it, use the appropriate checkbox in the First Aid dialog (by pressing the command and option keys while PowerMail is launching). When I try to compact the search index (through the menu), PM crashes. If compacting the search index crashes, you need to rebuild it (see above). I have compacted again and rebuilt the indexes through the maintenance dialog, no change. I have not tried the low level database rebuild. No change for the hang when sending a message, which is not related to the search index; but can you now compact the search index successfully (from the File / Database / Compact Search Index menu)? Jérôme - CTM Engineering - I would like to comment that FoxTrot is so far superior to Spotlight in every way that without it, I would probably have to go back to Windows (shudder) since the ability to search my own files is mission critical. Steven Merley, FoxTrot Personal Search user Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: PM 6 Auto-Reply is broken
George Henne wrote: When I set a Mail Filter to do an Auto-Reply, it simply sends the orignal message as a reply, ignoring the text in Set Reply... However, the original message (in the In Box) is modified, as follows: Note that the Reply text is inserted before the original text of the email. Hum, you are right, autoreply is broken in 6.0. It will be fixed in 6.0.1. Thanks for the report Jérôme - CTM Engineering - When Google Desktop was released I immediately downloaded it. I was hoping to find something better than FoxTrot. What I found was that it didn't find many files that FoxTrot does find, and that the indexing process was uncontrollable, and it brought my Dual-Core MacBook Pro to its knees. The computer was almost unusable while it was being indexed. I understand that they have brought out a new version, but I have deleted it from my disk (and have turned off Spotlight indexing in the FoxTrot preference panel). I don't often need an indexed search of my disk, but when I do, FoxTrot is hands down the best. Alan Harper, FoxTrot Personal Search user Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: Mail Filters
Chris wrote: Can someone tell me where PM stores the mail filter details? Is it in the user prefs or in the setup database? Setup database Jérôme - CTM Engineering - Incredibly powerful and useful. If you're thinking Yeah, I have Spotlight, and it was free then think again. FoxTrot is instantaneous. It lets you do those good boolean searches that Spotlight makes impossible to do (or to remember how to do). I can't believe how fast it finds Mail messages, and then shows me the subject line, mailbox location, and the full text of the message in preview. FoxTrot Personal Search user comment on www.macupdate.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: PM6 View Thread problem (minor)
Sean McBride wrote: I'm also confused about how this feature is supposed to work. For me, it's acting as follows: - I select a message with title foo bar - I choose 'View Thread' - a new window appears showing messages with foo and bar in their subject. Even if not part of the same thread at all. It also misses some that are part of the thread. Yes, that is how this feature is implemented (but it searches for messages whose subject include the exact phrase foo bar). That is not perfect, as it will find messages belonging to different threads but with the same subject, especially for short subjects like hello. But it should not miss messages of the thread (unless if the subject has been changed). Jérôme - CTM Engineering - I'd been using Entourage X ever since switching to Macs 2 years ago and was growing frustrated with its slow searches and increasing instability as my database grew. Decided to look for an alternative and tried Mail, MailSmith, Thunderbird and PowerMail. Settled on PowerMail and am extremely happy with this application. PowerMail user comment on www.versiontracker.com Download a demo version from www.ctmdev.com -
Re: The 2GB limit
Paul Schneider wrote: As the 2GB limit has not been removed with PM6 but simply bypassed, I have to find another solution to get ride of this limit. The easiest way would be to start two versions of the same program simultaneously or if PM5 and PM6 could run at the same time with different accounts and different environments of course. Does anybody have a clue how to handle this? There is an unsupported hack to let two copies of PowerMail run simultaneously, on two different PowerMail user environments: - copy the PowerMail application to a different folder - using TextEdit, create a plain text file containing a string like PowerMail Prefs (alternate) (without the quotes, and with no return character at the end). - save it as a plain text file named can open twice, in the folder containing the other copy of the application - you may need to press the command-option-shift keys, the first time you launches the other copy, to create or designate the other user environment. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - After a month of Tiger, I'd gone back to CTM's excellent FoxTrot Personal Search for finding documents by content Andrew Orlowski - www.reghardware.co.uk Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: Exported mail databases cannot be imported
powerm...@lisauskas.net wrote: Under PowerMail 6, I exported some mail folders using File - Database - Export... for archiving purposes. I would rather have used the new Archive and Cleanup feature, but apparently no one thought about adding the ability to select specific folders for Archiving... To do this using Archive and Cleanup, select all the folders you want to archive, then search in the selected folders and subfolders for messages whose date received is older than 0 day. Then use archive and cleanup on all messages from the search results window. So, I exported quite a few folders into the PowerMail Exchange format, preserving folder hierarchy and including attachments. I then threw all those exported folders into the Trash, deleted the Trash, and compacted the Message Database. Well, the problem is preserve folder hierarchy. It does NOT mean include subfolders; it means that if you selected multiple folders and subfolders, a single export file will contain the messages from the selected folders (but not unselected subfolders), and when you import this file, it will restore the folder hierarchy. When this option is not checked, each folder is exported to a separate file, and when you import that, each file will be imported to a new folder on the root folder level. So, unless I have misunderstood the problem, I am afraid that you have deleted some subfolders that were not exported. We will change this dialog in 6.0.1 to avoid this confusion. Really sorry for this Jérôme - CTM Engineering - Having used FoxTrot search capabilities within PowerMail for two years, I'm delighted to see these now available for the rest of my data. In fact, I was so thrilled at the announcement that I paid for my copy before the software was available - and haven't regretted since. Marco Osti, Italy (FoxTrot customer #01) Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: PM6 and Search Index
Chris wrote: Since installing PM6 each time it starts it tells me my message index is out of date and do I want to rebuild. It could be that PM checks the index every so often and then puts the msg up again. I don't have indexing running in the background since this often caused problems going back to PM4 (I think). It seems to be a bug when background indexing is disabled. Either ignore this message by clicking no, or enable background indexing. It is much more stable than it used to be when we were using Apple's vtwin engine a few years ago. However indexing HTML message can still cause some random crashes, in this case you can disable indexing of HTML messages from the preferences. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - Foxtrot Professional Search is a fantastic application. I simply couldn't live without it. FoxTrot Professional Search user comment Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: Retrieving a password
John Brave wrote: #1 - I have a gmail account and I forgot the password. The only place that has the correct password is my powermail settings. How can I retrieve my password from powermail in order to log in to gmail and change some of the settings there? If your account is set to store the password in the KeyChain, you can use KeyChain Access to retrieve it. In the other case, you can change this setting (in the identity tab of the accounts dialog) to transfer the password to the keychain, then use KeyChain Access. #2 - I received the mailing for Powermail 6 beta and I tried to get it, but there was no obvious way to get the upgrade pricing; the forms insist on full pricing. How do I get the upgrade pricing for the beta? Did you receive an upgrade coupon code? If so, as indicated in the message, enter your coupon code on the second page of the webstore (or use the personalized link from the message); the total price will be calculated on the third page. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - When Google Desktop was released I immediately downloaded it. I was hoping to find something better than FoxTrot. What I found was that it didn't find many files that FoxTrot does find, and that the indexing process was uncontrollable, and it brought my Dual-Core MacBook Pro to its knees. The computer was almost unusable while it was being indexed. I understand that they have brought out a new version, but I have deleted it from my disk (and have turned off Spotlight indexing in the FoxTrot preference panel). I don't often need an indexed search of my disk, but when I do, FoxTrot is hands down the best. Alan Harper, FoxTrot Personal Search user Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: Grr! (Limits on prerelese software)
Alan Harper wrote: I recently upgraded my Powermail to the beta v 6 to see if I liked it. When I reinstalled PowerMail 6 and registered it with a PM 5 registration code, I found that it would neither send nor receive mail because it was over the 1,000 email limit. So I guess ctm wants me to spend $62 in order to beta-test their program? I don't think so. If you are not a PowerMail user and download 6.0 beta, you have the 1,000 messages limit. But if you first install PowerMail 5 and register it, then upgrade to 6.0 beta, 6.0 beta will still be in demo mode for 30 days, but without the 1,000 messages limit. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - Being an old school Mac user, to me searching for a file is the good old Command-F. I never liked Sherlock and never really saw the need for fancy search software, but FoxTrot has made me think again. FoxTrot Personal Search review on www.softpedia.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: Growl [ was: PM 6 impressions]
Matthias Schmidt wrote: I just realized, that I get 2 notifications for each mail and notifications for SpamSieve are switched off. So how can I get rid of the second notification? PowerMail does not send a notification for each message, but a single notification when all messages have been received. Maybe you have a filter to display an alert for every message? Jérôme - CTM Engineering - FoxTrot is way better and faster than Spotlight and seriously more usable. With around 20 docs on my 60Gig drive, using Spotlight is just hopeless. Searches with FoxTrot are just instantaneous and you can view them in all sorts of ways. The preview is just wonderful. FoxTrot Personal Search user comment on www.versiontracker.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
Re: PM 6 impressions
Matthias Schmidt wrote: go to the system preferences - growl - applications - click on powermail/powermail notifications - settings - notification then set stay on screen to never my settings are all set to let application decide and the notifications do disappear. PowerMail's default settings for Growl is to stick both notification types (new mail and error). However, some Growl styles always fade out, whatever the user settings or the application request. Jérôme - CTM Engineering - FoxTrot is a must have for me. It is simply awesome! Type a few words and it finds and shows you the location in the files. Wow! Got love it. Thank you thank you thank you! FoxTrot Personal Search user comment on www.versiontracker.com Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch -
