Re: if I have really deleted all my mail I will just kill myself

2006-04-07 Thread Cotty
On 7/4/06, Douglas Carnall, discombobulated, unleashed: > >I wanted to just copy the contents of my hard drives to it and be done, >but I kept getting errors saying this and that file couldn't be copied >for this and that reason (permissions, illegal filenames etc) so I >started "tidying up". Too

Re: if I have really deleted all my mail I will just kill myself

2006-04-07 Thread T.L. Miller
On 4/7/06, at 10:44 AM, Douglas Carnall [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >I wanted to just copy the contents of my hard drives to it and be done, >but I kept getting errors saying this and that file couldn't be copied >for this and that reason (permissions, illegal filenames etc) so I >started "tidying up

Re: if I have really deleted all my mail I will just kill myself

2006-04-07 Thread Douglas Carnall
At Fri, 7 Apr 2006 08:38:09 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >May I suggest that you use a back-up system? Quite so. I'd got in a bit of a jam with lack of disk headroom, and had just bought a new firewire hard drive to back up to. I wanted to just copy the contents of my hard drives to it and be

Re: if I have really deleted all my mail I will just kill myself

2006-04-07 Thread Cotty
On 7/4/06, Douglas Carnall, discombobulated, unleashed: >Whoops. I am an idiot, though fortunately no longer suicidal. I had three >Powermail folders on my hard drive and Powermail was using one I didn't >expect. It didn't like being in the trash. Ulp! Fortunately I retrieved >it before any damag

Re: if I have really deleted all my mail I will just kill myself

2006-04-07 Thread Douglas Carnall
At Fri, 7 Apr 2006 11:49:48 +0900 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >The one with the last modification date will be the one. >It might be called Message Database.old, that's the one you're looking for. Whoops. I am an idiot, though fortunately no longer suicidal. I had three Powermail folders on my har

Re: if I have really deleted all my mail I will just kill myself

2006-04-07 Thread Marlyse Comte
you need to manually select the correct database after launching PM. first, in spotlight do a search on your drive(s) for the correct, i.e. latest, MESSAGE DATABASE. go : menubar > database > switch user environment > select the database located in above step. good luck. ---marlyse --

Re: if I have really deleted all my mail I will just kill myself

2006-04-07 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Douglas, first of all, don't kill yourself, much worse things can happen to man and even that is no reasonable reason to commit suicide ;-) second, try to locate your powermail folder on your disk. There are probably more than one. Now look on the modification date of the files, especially the

Re: if I have really deleted all my mail I will just kill myself

2006-04-07 Thread Douglas Carnall
Fri, 7 Apr 2006 03:28:54 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >This is a major disaster. > >Please help Tried launching Powermail with cmmd + opt keys depressed as per This did not work. D. -- dougie carnall +44 (0)207 241 1255 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

if I have really deleted all my mail I will just kill myself

2006-04-07 Thread Douglas Carnall
Hi, I'm using Powermail 4.2.1 on OS X 10.3.9 I was performing a long overdue backup, selected "Compact database". Powermail crashed at the end of this lengthy process (15mins) Now when I launch Powermail it seems to have reverted to an early version (2004?) of the database, all my folders, fil

question about sending to a group

2006-04-07 Thread Ken Pope
When I send to a group (i.e., a set of names listed as a group in my addressbook), is it possible for the "TO:" line in each recipient's copy to show only the name of the group rather than the names of the individuals in the group? Thanks for your help. Ken

Mail Server Capabilities

2006-04-07 Thread C. A. Niemiec
I was just wondering if someone with mail server expertise could explain this. This is what I get first logging in to FIT's mail server: >+OK X1 NT-POP3 Server mail-01.fitsuny.edu (IMail 8.21 7667-50) > >CAPA > >+OK Capability list follows >TOP >USER >SASL LOGIN PLAIN >RESP-CODES >LOGIN-DELAY 120