Re(2): PM going forward
I would echo the comments on this thread -- I would be happy to support paid upgrades or a modest annual fee. PowerMail is an important part of my daily activities!! David Fri, 17 Aug 2012 09:57:26 +0200
Tiny Type in Message Window
Over the years that I have been on this list, I have considered myself fortunate not to have had any problems with PowerMail that Compact Database would not solve on a very rare occasion.. However, I am currently stumped by a problem that has recently arisen with PM 5.5.3 and now with PM 5.6.1. I am using a MacBook 2GHz Intel Core Duo with 2 GB RAM operating Mac OS 10.5.1. PowerMail works fine except when composing text. Subject and Recipient lines accept data as normal but when text is entered into the message window it appears microscopically small, a little larger than periods. I have touch typed some test messages and sent them to myself and found the messages are rendered in normal type font size. The problem is that I cannot see what I am typing. I also have PowerMail 5.6.1working on an iBook PowerPC under Mac OS 10.5.1 and PM works fine. Also tried PowerMail on an old Blue White G3 and it too works fine which suggests that it is not a bug in PM but may be a problem with Leopard. I recollect that when the problem first arose a week ago, the letters typed into the message window appeared giant size to the point where I could only see parts of a single letter. PM PreferencesDisplay options are set at 16 and 14 points for Times Roman and Verdana. The character set is ISO 8859-15 (Latin 9). What am I missing? Suggestions gratefully welcomed. David ** David W. Moody Beaver Tree Farm P.O. Box 717 Alstead, NH 03602 Tel: 603-835-7900 Fax: 603-835-6279 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site: www.beaverwood.co
Re: greeting card malware?
Your email address has been spoofed. I have 2 domains that have NO outgoing email server at all and I get returns all the time. I just ignore them. There is absolutely nothing you can do about this. Most email servers can catch a fraudulent email address and bounce it. Am/On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:04:00 -0500 schrieb/wrote Mark Gerber: This isn't specific to PowerMail, but I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction to solve this problem. I think that's a misconfigured mailserver which is rejecting (infected virus) mail instead of bouncing it. For the past several weeks I've been getting a lot of e-mail dumped into my Spam folder with the subject indicating delivery failed. They are from addresses I don't know and are responding to an e-mail from my domain (using a random name, for instance: hpbxx @ gerberstudio.com). There is often an attachement named something like Greeting Card.exe involved. As far as I've been able to find out I seem to have been infected with the Happy New Year worm, but I haven't found a solution for OS X. Does anyone know where I can get more information? the worm affects only Windoze But if you're afraid of viruses on the Mac, install ClamXav, works great. Another nice thing is snort, the installation for OS X is called HenWen. All the best Matthias --- Admilon Consulting GmbH http://www.admilon.com Tel. +81-736-56-3905 ---
Re: greeting card malware?
I DON'T use spamsieve. I simply open my mailbox using webmail (squirrelmail) and select all the messages. Then I scroll down, unchecking the ones I want to keep. Then I click delete. Then I download. This gives me visual control all the time and it is very fast to do. I can skim through 100 messages in about 2 minutes and pick out the 1 or 2 that I want to read. I have squirrel mail set up to move them to a trash file first before they are gone forever, so if I oops all is not lost. Frank Mitchell sez: I suspect these are intended to overload programs which work like SpamSieve with millions of random 'good' words. If there are enough of them they could eventually render SS ineffective. Your experience seems to confirm this. For this reason, I simply delete such random word messages rather than do a Mark as Spam. That's my theory anyway 8^) That was my theory, too. I went to the SpamSieve website and checked forums, and the general consensus there was to continue to mark even these kinds of messages as spam. So I have. On the plus side, more messages like that get caught by SpamSieve. On the minus side there are so many of them, I don't think I notice a difference until I do actual counts. :) I'll bite the bullet and begin saving up spam messages soon and then remake SpamSieve's corpus. It should take about 9-10 days for me to get 1000 spams to index. Ugh. Now, if I could only find a way to automatically trash all the political mail my father sends to me but save his good messages. :) -- Michael Lewis Off Balance Productions [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.offbalance.com
Re: daylite integration
I use squirrel mail as a way of not downloading stuff I don't want. I look into my 2 email accounts (different isp's) and select all then I uncheck the ones I want, then I hit the delete button. That way I get rid of 80% of what is in my inbox on the server without ever downloading it. Since I use a satellite broadband (satellite up and down) internet service (Wildblue, which comes through electric cooperatives across the country) and have a monthly usage (download/ upload) quota before I get my bandwidth reduced, this keeps me well under my limit. When I'm on the road with the iBook, I simply clean the mailbox each day using squirrelmail and safari, and download the keepers on my iBook using Apple Mail, which figures out which ones it has already downloaded and just brings in the new stuff, but is set not to delete from the server. That way I can answer ones I want to deal with right away. When I return home, I download the whole thing and delete from the server. It's just my system of keeping up with important stuff and disregarding all the spam. On Mar 18, 2006, at 3:54 PM, Neil Young wrote: Just out of interest why do you use squirrelmail as well. Neil Frankly Daylite is a disappointment. I tried and tried to get help on their palm conduit. Finally gave up and am using Apple address book (which updates from PM) and iCal. I use Apple Mail as a redundant mail client download into apple mail first without removing from server and then download with PM, removing from server. but first I clean the mailbox on the server using Safari and squirrelmail. Works well. Can cut and paste from PM to iCal if needed. Probably could script this but not worth the time. Is anyone here using Daylite as PIM? Daylite imports email from Mail, associating it automatically with a contact and a project or opportunity (DMI), which is very handy for critical emails (used selectively). But since Daylite is scriptable, I suppose it should be possible to create a script which imports email, received and sent, as notes, just as the Daylite Mail Integration works. Any experiences out there? An to push things even further, to make it fully compatible with DMI, does it seem possible to have the script ask with which project / opportunity to associate an email? I am not familiar with Applescript, although I have on occasion been able to edit recorded scripts. This may be beyond me, but it could be worth the effort. Just being able to import is half the job done anyway. Willem
Re: 5.2 Spinning Beachball
== Richard Hart, thank you for your message. = ***REPLYING TO YOUR MESSAGE QUOTED BELOW. REPLY IS ABOVE YOUR MESSAGE*** REPLY: No problem here. Did 10.3.9 for a while and then on to 10.4.1 and it seems to be fine. I suggest that if you move to tiger that you do an archive and install. I didn't and have been cleaning out caches in the system for a while. Seems to be ok now. Sun, 5 Jun 2005 13:30:13 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] == Is anyone else experiencing a gradual corruption of 5.2 databases? Here are the symptoms: PM 5.2 works fine for 4 or 5 days. Then, every action begins with a spinning beach ball for a few seconds. Then a spinning beach ball for a few minutes. Eventually, the beach ball spins forever. The database becomes unreadable. I had this identical experience on an iMac, a Dual 2GHz G5, a 733MHz G4, and a new iBook. The first uses a dial-up connection, the next two a DSL router, and the fourth a wireless connection. The only common link is that they are all using OS 10.3.9. I have reverted them all to PM 5.1, and they are working fine, using a backup of the 5.1 version of the databases. However, the 5.2 databases appear to be unrecoverable. Richard Hart --- Bob Moody, fundraising consultant Owner, Moody Associates Quality Fundraising Products Serving schools, sports teams, daycares, church groups, scouts, and other community groups. *1986-2005 19 years of excellence! *Our mission is to make it easy for you to reach your fundraising goals...over and over...year after year. *Our main product is your profit! office: 540-885-3439 or 800-326-9192 (8-4 M-F) cell: 540-294-9791 toll-free to cell: 866-294-9791 www.fundraisingcentral.net www.bobmoody.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail: 936 Frog Pond Road Staunton VA 24401-8346 fax 540-885-6670 or toll free 877-936-9192 The Four-Way Test of the things we think, say, or do: First: Is it the TRUTH? Second: Is it FAIR to all concerned? Third: Will it build GOOD WILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS? Fourth: Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
Re: Display Question for 5.2 users
== Tim Lapin, thank you for your message. = ***REPLYING TO YOUR MESSAGE QUOTED BELOW. REPLY IS ABOVE YOUR MESSAGE*** REPLY: try trashing the .plist file for PM. Also rebuild permissions, reprebind the system, run the cron scripts, and maybe even run diskwarrior (but get the new version first if you're using tiger.) Mon, 23 May 2005 12:17:50 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] == Hello all, As you can see by my sig, I am using PM 5.1. I am still experiencing an intermittent problem that I've seen since at least 4.x if not 3.x. When moving a bunch of messages to the trash, the folder portion of the main browser window gets overwritten with the names of the moved messages. It's only a display problem; when I close and then re-open the browser window, all is as it should be. As I've stated, it does not happen all the time and I can't pin down exactly under what conditions it does happen: a) number of messages moved b) total load on my system c) type/content of most recent message viewed d) phase of the moon e) whether I've eaten pizza that night,... Does anyone else still experience this? Is it fixed on 5.2? Is there something else I can do? -- Tim Lapin [EMAIL PROTECTED] G4/AGP/400OS 10.3.9PowerMail 5.1 640 MB RAM 40+40 GB HDs --- Bob Moody, fundraising consultant Owner, Moody Associates Quality Fundraising Products Serving schools, sports teams, daycares, church groups, scouts, and other community groups. *1986-2005 19 years of excellence! *Our mission is to make it easy for you to reach your fundraising goals...over and over...year after year. *Our main product is your profit! office: 540-885-3439 or 800-326-9192 (8-4 M-F) cell: 540-294-9791 toll-free to cell: 866-294-9791 www.fundraisingcentral.net www.bobmoody.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail: 936 Frog Pond Road Staunton VA 24401-8346 fax 540-885-6670 or toll free 877-936-9192 The Four-Way Test of the things we think, say, or do: First: Is it the TRUTH? Second: Is it FAIR to all concerned? Third: Will it build GOOD WILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS? Fourth: Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
Re: Persistent memory error, won't go away
Check to see if you have any unsent mail. Starting PM while not connected to the internet with unsent mail has produced this error for me. Also... did you repair permissions, run cron scripts, prebind, etc? Also... what version of OS? Journaling on? Sometimes a fragmented database can cause problems and Panther defrags when journaling is on. - Bob Moody [EMAIL PROTECTED] 936 Frog Pond Road Staunton VA 24401 800-326-9192 www.bobmoody.org The Four-Way Test of the things we think, say, or do: First: Is it the TRUTH? Second: Is it FAIR to all concerned? Third: Will it build GOOD WILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS? Fourth: Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned? Replying to message quoted below the signature line which is below this message: = *REPLYING TO MESSAGE QUOTED BELOW** Tue, 21 Dec 2004 00:30:03 -0500 Hi, I'm getting this error every time PM loads: class = std ; what = -1 ; where = -100 I can't tell what effect it is having, but I am still getting corruption problems. I used the First Aid options (checked all of them) and about 18 hours later it had completed and reindexed everything. Then it gave me the same memory error as it finished doing the sort/optimization of the Search Index. So obviously whatever was wrong before all the First Aid repairs is still wrong now. Any suggestions? Steve
Re(2): attachment behaviour
I discovered about 4-5 months ago that if you hold down the option key while moving attachments, you copy them and they stay with the message too. This method avoids all the problems of missing attachments and the tendency of PM to hang when you do a search and click on a message with a moved attachment in the find results window. So now I just copy attachments rather than move them. I keep a folder on the upper left hand corner of the desktop as a dropping point for these. Then I move them from this folder to their final destination. I also have a chord set on my Kensington 4-button trackball for hide others so I can get to this folder quickly. - Bob Moody [EMAIL PROTECTED] 936 Frog Pond Road Staunton VA 24401 800-326-9192 www.bobmoody.org The Four-Way Test of the things we think, say, or do: First: Is it the TRUTH? Second: Is it FAIR to all concerned? Third: Will it build GOOD WILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS? Fourth: Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned? Replying to message quoted below the signature line which is below this message: = *REPLYING TO MESSAGE QUOTED BELOW** Wed, 8 Dec 2004 20:39:35 -0500 On 09 12 2004 at 7:54 pm -0500, Max Gossell wrote: Well, I don't know what I've done -- when I went to the mail with the attachments to try what you said, Ben, the moved attachments were already normal again. Well no, that's exactly what I mean. Example: say I have a message containing some attachments, selected and visible in the browser (3-pane view). I go to the finder and move the attachments. I switch back to PM, and all of a sudden the attachments are greyed out. I then do something else with PM -- look at a different message, change folders, whatever -- then go back to the original message. Lo and behold, its attachments are black and movable again. -ben -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician zygoat creative technical services 613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628 http://www.zygoat.ca
Re: More 16 hour Sort Index rebuilding...
1. Switch to 10.3.6 or whatever Panther will run on your machine. Panther is faster than Jaguar and more stable, AND it automatically defrags any file smaller than 20megs. This will speed up anything you do in PowerMail because the database isn't spread all over the place. Of course to make this work you have to leave your system on over night. 2. Repair Permissions. Reprebind the system. Repair OSX symbolic links. You can do this from the terminal or use a GUI. I personally like Panther Cache Cleaner best, but also use Cocktail on occasion. If I run Cocktail, it generally makes files forget their owners, so I run PCC to repair the symbolic links which makes them remember again. 3. Zap your PRAM. 4. If rebuild is taking a long time, force quit PowerMail and go again. This usually speeds things up a whole lot. If the barberpole isn't spinning it's a good chance things are jammed up. I get this even on a twin 2 G5 and quitting and going again usually makes PM sort things out quicker. 5. Get rid of some of your messages. If your database is too large, it takes forever. Do this in bits and pieces. 6. Don't download all the junk. Use webmail to look into your mailbox and see what's in there. (There are also some shareware things that do this... was one on October MacWorld CD...which is why I buy mine off the newsstand instead of having a subscription) Delete any messages that you don't want directly from your mailbox and only download into PM the ones you want to keep. This is the best spam filter you can have and it's free. It also keeps you from deleting so many messages from PM and having to compact your database. I get about 200 messages a day, and at most download maybe 20-30. - Bob Moody [EMAIL PROTECTED] 936 Frog Pond Road Staunton VA 24401 800-326-9192 www.bobmoody.org The Four-Way Test of the things we think, say, or do: First: Is it the TRUTH? Second: Is it FAIR to all concerned? Third: Will it build GOOD WILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS? Fourth: Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned? Replying to message quoted below = *REPLYING TO MESSAGE QUOTED BELOW** Fri, 26 Nov 2004 08:46:26 -0500 Jerome, I recently received a number of 13MB emails which had the attachments in the Body of the email instead of attachments. After deleting them I thought it would be wise to Compact my data base. I used the menu option for this before going to bed and woke up to find PowerMail rebuilding my Sort Index. As with before this will take about 16 hours. Here are some more facts: 1. I'm still using the 5.1 beta (don't ask...) with 10.2.8 2. I have not crashed since we last emailed 3. Yesterday I had a problem with message subject lines overwriting each other as if the messages were jumbled together on top of one another. Ironically it only affected the messages in my PowerMaill Discussion folder :-) This did not appear to cause any functional problems, but to be on the safe side I deleted them all, quit (empties the trash), and restarted. No problems noted after this. 4. I've quit and restarted PowerMail at least once after this without a problem. What do you think the problem is? I am now obviously very disapointed with this result and now wonder if this will happen to me everytime I try to Compact. Any ideas? Also, could you *PLEASE* do something about the slowness of the rebuilds? It really is a serious issue, even if it happens to a customer only once (this is now my 4th time in as many weeks). Thanks! Steve
Re: Search needs help
The best spam filter is webmail. 1. Use webmail and log into your pop account. My Isp has one, or you can use Panadmail or others. I just start Safari and Powermail at the same time, and log in through webmail using Safari. Then... 2. Select all 3. Look down the list and uncheck the ones you want to keep. This way the spam is still selected. 4. Delete cleans out all the spam and leaves the good stuff 5. log out and then switch to Powermail. (Using my Kensington 4-button trackball it's the upper left button, scroll to Powermail click. 6. log in with Powermail and just download the remaining contents of your mailbox. I can clean 120 emails in about 2 minutes this way, usually keeping 3-4. The only trick is not to do it backwards and keep the ones you want to trash and trash the ones you want to keep. I have done this. No big deal. If it's important they'll email again.
Re: A database error occurred
Hold down command (open-apple) and option keys when starting Powermail. Check the first 3 boxes. If that doesn't work, do the low level rebuild. Failing that, open your PM4 backup in PM4, export, and import into a new database in PM5. - Bob Moody [EMAIL PROTECTED] 936 Frog Pond Road Staunton VA 24401 800-326-9192 www.bobmoody.org The Four-Way Test of the things we think, say, or do: First: Is it the TRUTH? Second: Is it FAIR to all concerned? Third: Will it build GOOD WILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS? Fourth: Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned? Replying to message quoted below = *REPLYING TO MESSAGE QUOTED BELOW** Sat, 12 Jun 2004 16:58:49 -0700 Trying to open powermail 5.0 after installing 10.3 and get this error after it tries to rebuild sort indices. A database error occurred Class = DB; what = 100; when =9; err=158 Any one have any ideas? Thanks in advance. Jeff
Re: Continuing Support
Why not go on ebay and buy a newer mac. I bought a 450 mhz blue white 2nd rev. with no drives and no memory for about $400, then spent about $250=$300 @ otherworld for 2 drives and a gig of memory. Running 10.3.4 on it and pm 5 and it works great. You can probably get one cheaper now, as I bought mine 2 years ago. - Bob Moody [EMAIL PROTECTED] 936 Frog Pond Road Staunton VA 24401 800-326-9192 www.bobmoody.org The Four-Way Test of the things we think, say, or do: First: Is it the TRUTH? Second: Is it FAIR to all concerned? Third: Will it build GOOD WILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS? Fourth: Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned? Replying to message quoted below = *REPLYING TO MESSAGE QUOTED BELOW** Sat, 29 May 2004 11:52:51 -0400 Do I understand correctly that PM 5 will not run under anything earlier than OS10? If so, will you continue to support PM 4.2.1? I have no intention to switch to OS10 so long as I have my current computer as I doubt it is up to the job. Ed Ver Hoef
Re(2): Which SpamSieve?
Spam blockers are unnecessary. Just use your web browser to log into your pop account using webmail. Look at what's there and delete everything that you don't want. (I hit select all then individually uncheck the ones I want, then hit the delete button on the page.) After doing that, log into your mail account with PowerMail and download what's left. This leaves spam, viruses, etc. behind and you only get what you want. It takes an extra 1-2 minutes for me to do this, and I usually have about 90 messages, 4-5 of which I keep. - Bob Moody [EMAIL PROTECTED] 936 Frog Pond Road Staunton VA 24401 800-326-9192 www.bobmoody.org The Four-Way Test of the things we think, say, or do: First: Is it the TRUTH? Second: Is it FAIR to all concerned? Third: Will it build GOOD WILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS? Fourth: Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned? Replying to message quoted below = *REPLYING TO MESSAGE QUOTED BELOW** Thu, 22 Apr 2004 12:58:51 +0200 david.gordon wrote: I already had SpamSieve. I think that PM 5 is running the copy supplied. Can I simply replace the copy in the PM folder with my original copy to use my own corpus etc. Your SpamSieve corpus is stored in your Library folder, so there is nothing to move. PowerMail 5 requires SpamSieve 2.1.3 or higher; if you have an older version installed somewhere, make sure that it is not the old one that is launched when SpamSieve is called by PM. Jérôme - PowerMail Engineering - With fairly flexible filters and mail options built-in, PowerMail shows that a great deal of thought has gone into striking the balance between a Über-geek tool (i.e. w/full-blown Boleean instructions) and something a mortal can use (pull down menus). PowerMail user comment on www.macupdate.com Download a demo version from www.ctmdev.com -
Re(2): Support Question
The best spam filter is free (and easy) Log into your email account in your browser using the ISP's webmail. (Or you can use Pandamail or Squirrel Mail or just about any of them) Select All of the messages. Look down the list. Uncheck the ones you want to keep. Hit the Delete Button Log out of your webmail Go to Powermail and download the ones that are left. I do this 4x a day and there are usually about 100 messages in there. The whole process takes less than 2 minutes and I get exactly the messages I want. I have my ISP flag the spam but I dedide personally which ones I keep and which ones I do not keep. I haven't met a spam filter yet that gets it right the way I want it. - Bob Moody [EMAIL PROTECTED] 936 Frog Pond Road Staunton VA 24401 800-326-9192 www.bobmoody.org The Four-Way Test of the things we think, say, or do: First: Is it the TRUTH? Second: Is it FAIR to all concerned? Third: Will it build GOOD WILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS? Fourth: Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned? *REPLYING TO MESSAGE QUOTED BELOW** Fri, 12 Dec 2003 21:24:49 +0100 Christian Meenaghan wrote: Please, how do I contact support for PowerMail? I am a registered owner, I have posted to the list, as well as sent email directly to you, and still I have not received any response. How can I get support? I replied you directly twice. Maybe you have a spam filter a bit too selective? Jérôme - PowerMail Engineering - In this world, you generally get what you pay for. PowerMail is worth paying for. Download a demo. You might just like it better than your current email program. That's how I switched to this great program that really performs. PowerMail user comment on www.versiontracker.com Download a demo version from www.ctmdev.com -
Re: High CPU use even when idle
Re-prebind your system. To do this you need a program like Panther Cache Cleaner, Cocktail, (and there's another one the name of which escapes me, but it also allows you to install just one file from a package.) After you do that, repair your privileges (use disk utility for this, but do it from your startup disk not from your install disk) and use some utility to clean out your caches, such as MacJanitor, Panther Cache Cleaner, or Cocktail. I prefer Panther Cache Cleaner, even though I'm still on Jaguar. I have been trying the demo of PowerMail and was about to buy it. However, it has recently started exhibiting very high CPU usage (50%), even when idle. I've started with a clean install of PM and a clean (empty!) database, and it still does this. There is also quite a lot of disk activity. Any suggestions on how to fix this would be appreciated. -- Sherman Wilcox University of New Mexico
Re: Trashing unwanted attachments
I have handled this problem by going into my mailbox on my isp using webmail. Most isp's have this available. I look into the mailbox in Safari using webmail. Then I select all then I unselect just the messages I want to download. Then I hit the delete button in webmail. Then I sign out of my mailbox and switch to Powermail and download the remaining contents of the mailbox. Usually I have about 80 messages in the box every 4 hours or so. I end up downloading 3-4 and trashing the rest. My isp does have a spam filter and I have it set to flag but not delete, since it wants to delete my daily weather.com info. The whole thing takes from 30 seconds to a minute to screen 80 messages. By selecting all and then looking through and unchecking the ones you want you can sift quickly. The neat thing is that you have NO download time for the messages you don't want. If your isp does not offer webmail, Pandamail.net is a good one. - Bob Moody [EMAIL PROTECTED] 936 Frog Pond Road Staunton VA 24401 800-326-9192 www.bobmoody.org Replying to message quoted at the bottom of this message. (Scroll down below signature lines.) Sat, 30 Aug 2003 21:40:00 +0200 Hi, I'm trying to find a way to have emails with a specific type of attachment - in this case the .pif and .src attachments sent with emails from virus infected PCs - go directly to the trash when I receive them. A filter and/or script seems the answer, but I can't work out how to make one that would recognise a particular type of attachment (as opposed to a sender's name, an address or some content, etc). I've been receiving over 100 of these emails a day through work and while they don't harm my Mac, they are a nuisance. Any ideas welcome :-) I'm using Powermail 4.1.3 on a G4 running OS X 10.2.6. Patrick
Re(2): Evaluating Powermail: 3 Questions
Workaround on displaying/headers I use my web browser (Safari, Mac OSX 10.2.6) to go into webmail on my ISP and look in my mailbox. I then select all messages. Then I unselect the ones I want to keep and click on delete. No spam ever gets downloaded, and I can view the messages from within the server mailbox and see the headers. The message is still on the server, not on my machine, so no attachments get downloaded. If your ISP doesn't have its own webmail (mine uses Squirrelmail), Pandamail works well. - Bob Moody [EMAIL PROTECTED] 936 Frog Pond Road Staunton VA 24401 800-326-9192 www.bobmoody.org Replying to message quoted at the bottom of this message. (Scroll down below signature lines.) Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:12:13 -0400 On 08 8 2003 at 5:02 pm -0400, The Internet Deity HaTMooL wrote: 1) How do you set the priority on a message? No, because there is no such thing as priority in the mail RFC. Somebody else can expound on this however. 2) No matter how I set preferences or use the insertion point, signatures appear at the END of the e-mail, even if I happen to be typing at the top, before quoted text. Is there a way to change this? So you want your signature to appear in the body of the message, with all quoted text trailing thereafter? I thought there was a pref for this, but maybe not. You may wish to check out the Text Clippings feature, which will let you throw arbitrary text wherever you want with a mere click of the mouse. 3) It appears I cannot view a message's full headers without opening it first. Really scary if you want to check suspicious e-mail before opening it. Even Netscape, Mozilla and *Gasp!* Outlook let me look at a message's source without opening it. Why is this scary? If by opening it you mean displaying it in the window, well, I guess that's true, but who cares? The only way in which this poses a problem is that the build-in HTML renderer PM uses is so flaky that it sometimes tends to crash the application. Hopefully CTM is busily integrating WebKit into the next release as I type this. Unlike Microsoft products, PM won't arbitrarily start executing attachments or javascript code or anything simply by displaying an e-mail message. -ben -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician zygoat creative technical services 613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628 http://www.zygoat.ca
Re(2): attachment encoding
Keep in mind that base64 and exe files don't work on a mac. Better to use .pdf files and post them to a web server somewhere. --- Bob Moody, owner Moody Associates Product Fundraising for schools, sports teams, daycares, church groups, scouts, and other community groups. Our main product is your profit! Our mission is to make it easy for you to reach your fundraising goals...over and over...year after year. 1986-2003 17 years of excellence! office: 540-885-3439 or 800-326-9192 (8-4 M-F) cell: 540-294-9791 toll-free to cell: 866-294-9791 www.fundraisingcentral.net www.bobmoody.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] text messaging to cell: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail: 936 Frog Pond Road Staunton VA 24401-8346 fax 540-885-6670 or toll free 877-936-9192 Replying to message quoted at the bottom of this message. Fri, 13 Jun 2003 11:40:57 -0400 On 13 6 2003 at 9:44 am -0400, Rick Lecoat wrote: Well, I'm trying to avoid the recipient having to possess specific decompression software to open the files, hence the self extracting archive which, by necessity, is an application of sorts. But you're right, there's a good chance that their server will bounce it so maybe I should look at other options. Still, I'm curious to learn why Base64 is not suitable for .exe files, f anyone knows. Why not post the file to a web server? Not only will that be more efficient on the infrastructure (assuming it's more than a meg or something in size), but avoid the virus issue. Anyway, my suspicion is that your .exe does have a resource fork locally. Maybe it's a zero-byte fork, or maybe it contains some benign information related to the app that last used it (e.g. in the manner that BBEdit stores window positioning, etc. in the rsrc fork of text files). -ben -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician zygoat creative technical services 613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628 http://www.zygoat.ca
