Re: My PowerMail adventure with HTML

2004-07-02 Thread Andy Fragen
*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* Barbara, Are you trying to edit a received email? Or just copy a part to quote in a reply? If you just want to copy a part to quote in a reply the easiest way I've found of doing this is to open the HTML message in the

Re: more html issues

2004-07-02 Thread Ben Kennedy
On 01 7 2004 at 3:12 pm -0400, matt haines wrote: there's nothing sacred about text-only emails. they're fine normally, and i use emails that way pretty regularly. but haven't you ever wanted to underline a word? or perhaps make it bold? oh come on, i know you have! You don't know many of us

Re: database corruption issues?

2004-07-02 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Dr Dave / 04.7.2 / 6:55AM wrote: In the past, I have heard a number of reports of powermail database corruption. I was one of them, but I didn't loose the data. I only lost $50! I too backup data weekly, but my corruption started a year ago, which I didn't realize until the real problem

Re: My PowerMail adventure with HTML

2004-07-02 Thread Barbara Needham
Andy Fragen on 7/2/04 said *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* Why don't you just open the HTML message in your browser then Print from the browser and save as PDF under OS X? I just came on to say this. It also works with the message opened with

Re: My PowerMail adventure with HTML

2004-07-02 Thread Andy Fragen
*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* Why don't you just open the HTML message in your browser then Print from the browser and save as PDF under OS X? -- Andy Fragen

Re: My PowerMail adventure with HTML

2004-07-02 Thread A-NO-NE Music
cheshirekat / 04.7.2 / 4:28AM wrote: Maybe 501 was a hint that the folder belonged to PowerMail version 5.01. Actually, 501 is a user ID for the first user account created on your machine. The second account is UID502, as you can guess. This tmp directory is used for various apps that caches

Re: database corruption issues?

2004-07-02 Thread Jim Pistrang
Hi Marlyse, Myself I've been using it with no database corruptions (average of 10 email accounts, 10 subscribed lists and traffic between 50 and 150 emails a day) and I trust it 99.9% - just as much as I trust any electronic datafile. My experiences are similar, although I don't bother to

Re: database corruption issues?

2004-07-02 Thread Marlyse Comte
I think I have heard of maybe 5 users who have had more serious problems with their database over the past...6 years or so, and this is probably as safe as any electronic datafile can get. Unfortunately nobody can guarantee you that you would not be the 6th user encountering major database

Re: database corruption issues?

2004-07-02 Thread Barbara Needham
Dr Dave on 7/2/04 said In the past, I have heard a number of reports of powermail database corruption. As a Powermail user, can you confirm this? How has it affected you, if at all. Have you lost data? Has this been fixed in the newest version? I'm a long time Claris Emailer User and I can see

Re: database corruption issues?

2004-07-02 Thread Jeremy Hughes
Dr Dave (2/7/04 11:55 am) said: As a Powermail user, can you confirm this? How has it affected you, if at all. Have you lost data? I use PowerMail heavily, and I've never lost any data. I've occasionally had to do a low-level rebuild - once after a power cut happened while I was using it - and

Re: database corruption issues?

2004-07-02 Thread Chris Walker
On 2/7/04 Dr Dave wrote: In the past, I have heard a number of reports of powermail database corruption. PM moved to a new database engine some time ago and it may be that these reports relate to the earlier version. For myself I have never experienced any problems (and I've been using it

Re: My PowerMail adventure with HTML

2004-07-02 Thread Chris Walker
On 2/7/04 cheshirekat wrote: I don't understand why PowerMail handles some HTML messages as separate documents (attachments) while others appear to be absorbed by PM. I have a message I received today that PM can display in my browser, but I can not locate it on my hard drive anywhere in my

Re: My PowerMail adventure with HTML

2004-07-02 Thread listes
computer artwork by subhash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not just open the HTMNL in the browser and save this HTML out of the browser to the desired location as HTML-File. it may depend on his html browser. Some do it, some not, some do it well, some in a poorer way... Indeed browser like

database corruption issues?

2004-07-02 Thread Dr Dave
In the past, I have heard a number of reports of powermail database corruption. As a Powermail user, can you confirm this? How has it affected you, if at all. Have you lost data? Has this been fixed in the newest version? I'm a long time Claris Emailer User and I can see that PowerMail has a

Re(2): My PowerMail adventure with HTML

2004-07-02 Thread Barbara Needham
fk on 7/2/04 said On 02/07/2004 at 2:48 AM I saw Barbara Needham type: There are a couple of books on using OS X unix but we are supposed to be able to do that stuff in OS X anyway. So there must be some way. To find that folder. From the Finder: Select Go to Folder... from the Go menu.

Re: My PowerMail adventure with HTML

2004-07-02 Thread Don V. Zahniser
Here's the workaround that I have come up with when I have received HTML mail that I either want to keep, or that I want to reply to: First, I am using Powermail 4.2.1 in Mac OS 9.0.4, and have no current plans to migrate to OS X. I have WannaBe set as my default browser. This is a lean,

Re(2): My PowerMail adventure with HTML

2004-07-02 Thread fk
On 02/07/2004 at 2:48 AM I saw Barbara Needham type: There are a couple of books on using OS X unix but we are supposed to be able to do that stuff in OS X anyway. So there must be some way. To find that folder.

Re: My PowerMail adventure with HTML

2004-07-02 Thread Barbara Needham
Well, that sounds interesting. I just tried it with mine, but still on PM 4. I think I just made a new document out of the old one, since the url said attachments folder, and it was there, but other mails similar were not. There are a couple of books on using OS X unix but we are supposed to be

Re: My PowerMail adventure with HTML

2004-07-02 Thread computer artwork by subhash
[cheshirekat [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 2.7.2004 um 2:28 Uhr:] ... I want to delete the email message, but I must keep the HTML document in a separate location. The formatting is such that copy and paste from the browser would be a nightmare. Without reading your long message completely:

My PowerMail adventure with HTML

2004-07-02 Thread cheshirekat
Howdy all! Maybe this information will help someone else who finds themselves in a similar situation. Usually, I do not care at all for HTML. I'd rather not have it. But, there are times when an important correspondent provides no other option. Periodically, but rarely, I receive HTML email

Re: more html issues

2004-07-02 Thread Michael Lewis
matt haines sez: i'm glad i brought this up! i think. You're not the first. You won't be the last. :) the argument that PM might not be right for me if i want to use html is a bit like saying you're either for us or against us! first off, i'm not convinced i want to be a member of that 'club'.

Re: raw source issues

2004-07-02 Thread Michael Lewis
matt haines sez: thanks alan, andy and stephane! i used the textedit version and it seems to work very nicely. i may try my hand at expanding the script to make the process a little more automatic...i should finish reading that AppleScript book i bought. That script alan spoke of is great.