Hello,
applications I use (ToDo apps, CRM apps) support linking to individual
Apple Mail mails. They use URLs of a special protocol for this, like
many apps have started to do (message: in Mail, omnifocus: in OmniFocus,
etc.), and those apps seem to install the respective protocol handler at
Bill Courington wrote:
I'm trying to figure out if PM or my ISP is breaking long lines.
It's PM breaking the line. CTM argued that this is what the relevant RFC
requests.
Regards, Christian.
C. A. Niemiec wrote:
So how many people might be subscribed to Yahoo! Groups who also use
PowerMail? :O
I do have some Yahoo! Groups subscriptions, but have yet to encounter
the does not hide bug. However, I'm consistently suffering from the
does not show bug, i.e. trying to bring PM to the
Don V. Zahniser wrote:
- If PowerMail is not the front application, and I click on the Dock
icon for PowerMail, the menu bar appears, but not any of the PowerMail
windows. A second click (not a double-click) on the Dock icon brings up
the window that was frontmost in PowerMail when last used.
Hi,
is it just for me or do the bundled PowerMail scripts under the section
Apply to selected text NOT just apply to the selected text, but to the
whole message text always?
I had a peek at their code, and they in fact do not seem to honor any
existing text selection in a message. I find the
Judith Beiss wrote:
Suddenly my incoming email is in a very large font, altho the correct
font. I cannot see how to change this back to 14 pt, or so. Preferences
for display appear to pertain to outgoing email. I've checked Mail Accts
under Setup as well as Prefs. Can anyone suggest how this
Hi,
I'm now hitting the 2GB database limit once every week. What I do not
understand is how 10,000 messages received nowadays do fill up 0.6 GB,
when 190,000 messages received in the past only occupy 1.3 GB. Because
that's what I am seeing:
1. When the 2GB limit warning shows, my Message
Tim Hodgson wrote:
A minor feature request just occurred to me: an option to choose a
maximum number of recipients to display (in Simple Header mode) in a
received message.
This is there already:
Preferences Display Max number of To/CC: number
(if that's what you mean...)
Regards, Christian
Bruce Barrett wrote:
* If we can retain recent mail across PM launches then we should have
a button (or something) that will let me say Clear recent mail folder.
There is already: Remove read and Remove all as toolbar buttons in
the RMW.
* if I still have PM collect as it starts up then I
Mirko Kranenburg wrote:
Does anyone know how I can make a rule (or select on option/preference)
to automatically BCC an outgoing message?
New Filter:
[x] Outgoing filter
Conditions: [Always]
Actions:
[Add recipient] [Blind CC] [...your address...]
Regards, Christian.
Hi,
since versions 5.5 of PM, I have the problem that (at least) after
replacing the PM binary with a newer version, searches are incomplete by
a great margin, meaning that only about 20% or less of the matches are found.
Re-building the search-index using Cmd-Opt-launch environment does fix
it,
using PM 5.5. I'm running on PPC, 10.4.8, no spotlight-searching for PM.
Just one thing to add I noted:
I am running on HFS+ (case-sensitive). I have two almost identically
named files in my PowerMail folder:
Message Database index
and
Message Database Index
(note the different
And it's *a*mnesia, of course.
Oh well, probably a result of my ins*o*mnia - and my talent for making
up cool-sounding new telescope words (from *omn*i=all and amn*esia*=loss
of memory), preferably in a language that's not my native tongue... :-))
Sorry, kris.
Wayne Brissette wrote:
Can I ask a serious question? How often do people run into this 2 GB limit?
About once every two to three weeks. I currently have about 230k
messages in my database, and get about 350 new emails each day.
The puzzling thing (I do not understand since I'm no DB guru) is
CTM info wrote:
Instructions on creating the equivalent of a database clone:
If one has the time (don't know how long PM would need for this),
wouldn't it be less error-prone
Tim Lapin wrote:
On Wednesday, September 27, 2006, Richard Hart sent forth:
Yes. I had this problem for a long time, and it stumped PowerMail support.
I can't give you specific steps to apply, but I do know it has something
to do with number of messages in the database. At the time, I had
Mikael Byström wrote:
One blatant error in your suggestion is that it requires that the 'smart'
in your smart folders is more or less perfect. Are you sure you would
like to rely on the current search technology with its limitations for
organizing your messages? You know of the limitations,
Rene Merz wrote:
The (sometimes strange) behaviour of different mail clients (incl. PM)
can be compared with this list:
http://www.tandb.com.au/email/clients/
Very interesting too.
Hmmm, above all, it seems to be one thing: completely outdated
(1999-11-26). PowerMail 2.2? I'm using 5.2.1 at the
Adding to the discussion of beachballing:
I updated my OS X server to 10.3.9 over the weekend. It runs the DNS
server. And the DNS Server works fine for web, ssh, afp etc. It also
works some time for PM, meaning that connecting via POP to external mail
servers work as before. However, at some
Hi,
I'm struggling now already for hours with something I thought should be
really easy:
How do I copy the body text of a message that is selected in PowerMail's
message browser to the system's clipboard?
This does not work:
tell application PowerMail
activate
set msg to the first
Dr Dave wrote:
because I eventually group all
the attachments together by year (at least) so as to keep the current
attachments folder less cluttered easier to find recent attachments.
I have created a simple AppleScript to create a folder for each email
that has attachments and move
Sean McBride wrote:
So CTM: how about adding List-Post, etc. to this list's headers. :)
Well, the etc. is already there, we have:
List-Subscribe:
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
List-Digest:
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
List-Unsubscribe:
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
:-)
And I *do* get the popup menu for
Urs Gruetzner wrote:
However PM 5.1 behaves very quirky: sometimes scrolling works as
expected, sometimes scrolling has a dreadful delay, sometimes it scrolls
not at all, there is no rule recognizable which behavior is about to prefer
What is the experience of other users with mice with a
Craig Dudley wrote:
I have defined my filter with the appropriate criteria. I have
unchecked the Filter Incoming messages the Filter Outgoing Messages
boxes. When I do that, my filter name does not show up in the
Mail-Perform Filter cascade list.
Does this mean I can't use this filter to do
Anthony Sanna wrote:
When you create a new filter, it appears at the bottom.
If you want to move it up towards the top of a long list, it has to be
dragged part-way, parked, the list scrolled up manually, and then dragged
to its final resting place.
The filter list does autoscroll for me, with
Jefferis Peterson wrote:
Can you set label colors on mail folders?
Yes: Select the folder, then Message Label (the one you like) .
Regards, Christian.
A-NO-NE Music wrote:
I don't mind spam being missed. No big deal. I really do mind legit
message being missed and I fear if I accidentally delete them.
SpamAsassin never missed legit message. This is where I am at.
I think you can make SpamSieve a little less aggressive by using the
A-NO-NE Music wrote:
Just curious.
Why do you spin down your drives, which shortens your drive life in great
deal? I never spin down any of my drives, running 24/7, except when my
TiBook travels with me :-)
I have to do this since my enclosure is crammed with HDs. Since I also
live under the
Hi,
does anyone know why switching user environments by double clicking a
file of the new environment causes all attached harddisks to the machine
to spin-up when they had been spundown? This is even when the environment
is on the same, running disk as the old one.
As it is, it takes roughly 10
Hi,
I'm having problems with sending the Euro character (?). PowerMail seems
to send a message consisting of only ASCII characters except for the euro
character as US-ASCII.
If I add umlauts (like ä,ö,ü,é,à), PowerMail seems to automatically send
the email in iso-8859-1. This looks like what it
PowerMail Engineering wrote:
Christian Roth wrote:
(from startswith kris OR from startswith roth)
AND
(account is 'Private')
It is of course not as flexible as boolean expressions, but but you can
do this with the following filter:
[from] [includes at least one of the words] [kris* roth
PowerMail Engineering wrote:
Using both AND and OR operators in a filter would be way to difficult to
configure for most users. A lot of users already have difficulties to
order their filters and use the stop checkbox correctly, so a complex
interface like this one just out of question.
First,
computer artwork by subhash wrote:
it would be a TREMENDOUS feature if the options within a filter
could be individually grouped in a boolean fashion
YES!!!
And for a IMO nice graphical interface solution to complex boolean
expressions, see ChronoSync's Rules tab, Intermediate mode:
Jim Pistrang wrote:
I've looked, and it must be obvious, but...where do I see the number of
messages in my database?
I don't think there is an abvious way. The way I do it is:
Find [in local mail boxes]
[Reception date] [after] [01.01.1990]
The search is fast, and the search result window
Mikael Byström wrote:
Expanding on this, Where do I remove all the messages
Edit the RMW toolbar to include the Remove All icon.
or just the
selected
This is not possible directly.
or read ones, in the recent mail window?
Edit the RMW toolbar to include the Remove read icon.
Unfortunately,
Andy Fragen wrote:
It didn't until I changed the line. I ran the
script from within the script editor after I renamed an attachment.
Yes, but isn't this the whole issue about PM now using Aliases to
reference attachments? So, when you rename an attachment that has been
created in PM5, PM uses
Richard Hart wrote:
Bob Parks wrote:
When I double
click on a message to open it in a new window to read it, the message
will open up with the title bar appearing on top of where I just double
clicked. The new window interprets this as a minimize command and
shrinks itself down into the dock,
Richard Hart wrote:
What you want is to find a message from John OR
Jane. I cannot find a way to perform an OR search, though. So how are you
doing the OR part?
It MIGHT work if you do a
[From] [contains at least one of the words] [Jane John]
and there are no other Johns or Janes in that
Hi,
earlier betas had the feature that when one manually marked as spam a
message in the Recent Messages window, the operation was handled
similarly to a move to trash command: The message was classified as spam
and the next message was selected automatically. The only problem (or
bug) here was
[This is a repost of a bug description sent to CTM support some days ago]
When selecting more than one single message, choosing the Redirect
command appends the signature defined for the outgoing account to the
message about to be redirected.
Redirected messages should get sent without any
[This is a repost of a bug description sent to CTM support some time ago]
PowerMail consistently crashes when trying to switch the User Environment
(by opening a file of that new environment in the Finder) while a trash
emptying operation is still in progress.
I'm using two environments for
[This is a repost of a bug description sent to CTM support some days ago]
Performing the following filter on an incoming message sets the Incoming
messages folder bold and lists an unread message count of -1.
Filter setup:
Conditions: ---
[Subject] [begins with] Confirm
[Account] [is] [name]
Max Gossell wrote:
1) Outgoing mail filter: Does not work since they run only AFTER sending
the mail.
In version 5 this has changed. They are now running BEFORE the mail is sent.
Cool - this change in behaviour completely passed by my attention.
Filters now can do exactly what I need, thanks
Hi,
on my system, the does not include the words choice is always dimmed in
the search dialog. In what situations is this choice available and how do
I search for messages with certain criteria, but that do _not_ contain a
specific word in their subject (e.g. messages from a certain mailing list
Jeffrey Thorstad wrote:
Can someone actually name an email client for
any platform, other than web-based, that can do threading?
MacSOUP does it:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/15499
I picked a thread from this very group and here's how excellent, _real_
threading looks
Lane Roathe wrote:
Is there a way to select open address book entry windows? I can't seem to
find one and I'm always having to close every single open PM window so I
can find a lost one. Got to be a way to do this...
In PowerMail's Dock menu, all open windows are listed, albeit only named
listes wrote:
Is there a way, when sending out a message, to send without keeping?
An idea: Create a new account (which may hold the exact same data as your
regular account) and name it e.g. Send, don't keep. Now when creating
a message you do not want to keep, use that account instead of the
Marlyse Comte wrote:
has anyone noticed that if a send-out fails, the message stays bold? I
don't think it was like this before (in this case the send failed due to
authentication with some server due to downtime of it) - I know this
could be a problem when the send failed and no bold message /
Hi,
is there finally a keyboard shortcut for Remove read from the Recent
Messages Window? The new beta still does not seem to have a menu entry
for it, and the documentation doesn't mention it under the keyboard
shortcuts section.
I use this function many, many times a day and am desperately
PowerMail Engineering wrote:
Attachments links should have not be broken during the conversion.
If they have, make sure the attachment folder set in the attachment
preference is good (if you have duplicated your database and attachment
folder, PowerMail may be using the original folder instead
Hi,
is there a way to re-find an attachment to a message whose link got broken?
Case at hand is that after upgrading to PowerMail 5 beta, some
attachments to messages are indicated as not found (showing in grey)
when indeed they are short-named files that still reside in PM's
attachments folder
Hi,
(reposting this bug for PowerMail 5 beta)
ok, so this is my pet-peeve bug, and I'll keep bringing it up again until
it is fixed, so... :-)
I am having the following problem with a single mail getting sent twice:
To reproduce:
1. Create a new email using account A.
2. Schedule it for
Hi,
though I have suggested a solution to the manually marked as good keeps
Spam label color problem, I am now also in the situation where I would
like to have the ability to perform an AppleScript after both, Manually
mark as Spam and Manually mark as good. This should be an additional
Hi,
I'm having a problem with the following incoming mail filter setting
which worked flawlessly in 4.x:
[x] Filter incoming messages
Conditions:
Subject begins with CONFIRM
Account is mailinglist-admin
Status is not read
Status is not replied
Execute if all conditions are met
Per Åström wrote:
When I mark a message as good that was labeled spam by SS the color is
still red. Is it possible to get it in black after marked as good? Maybe
there is a preference I've missed?
I solved this by adding a filter at the top of the filter list setting
the label to none (not
Sylvain Perchaud wrote:
http://www.ctmdev.com/download.shtml
There is probably a problem with the HTML code of that page.
I only see the HTML source code in Opera 7.5
OW's transfer log shows:
--snip--
Apr 19 21:44:27 http Rx: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Apr 19 21:44:27 Rx:
A-NO-NE Music wrote:
By the way, I see nothing in the code that suggests security warning you
mentioned.
OW presented a security warning as well. However, there's also a comment
on http://www.ctmdev.com/sales.shtml that although the certificate
might indicate a verification problem, the
Hi,
I had an AppleScript in 4.x working that did a
move theMsg to message container name
This does no longer seem to work in the 5 beta, where I now have to write
set the storage of theMsg to the message container name
Is this a deliberate change, a bug or have I been just doing
Jean de Crombrugghe wrote:
The beta includes a key for testing that expires on May 30.
Yes, but it doesn't work on my computer : invalide key :(
That message appeared when I dragged the key from the disk image to PM.
When I copied everything into a writable folder on my HD and then dragged
the
Hi,
what is the keyboard shortcut for Remove Read from the Recent Messages
Window? This is a function I perform very often, but I haven't found the
command as a menu item to see its assigned shortcut (or create one using
Panther preferences).
Before hitting all key combos to check - does anyone
Frank Mitchell wrote:
Right now, to file his sent messages, the user has to open the Out Tray,
scroll to the desired folder, open it to show the sub-folder (if
necessary)
PM has spring-loaded folders, so you can just grab the message and move
it to the place where you want it by dragging and
Bob Salsburg wrote:
Mine has to do with selections, i.e., if I delete a message, the list
has no selection. In every other client I have used/seen the next
message is auto-selected.
Have you made sure that in Preferences General Shortcuts, Select
next message after delete is checked?
H.R. Riggs [Fr, 19. Mär 2004]:
Is there a keyboard shortcut to switch from To to CC when addressing email?
The ones I know:
*.. Ctrl-up/down: select recipient (if already entered)
*.. Starting to type: entering recipient
*.. Cmd-up/down: choosing adressing mode (To / CC / BCC, while entering
Adam de Zoete [Di, 16. Mär 2004]:
Thanks for your advice, if I redirect it all, i'm imagining I will lose
the correct date/time on my sent messages?
Don't know for sure, but maybe this is a task for a little AppleScript to
change the message status?
Regards, Christian.
Ira Lansing [Fr, 30. Jan 2004]:
My question is what about all of the addresses AFTER the refused one?
Have those been sent?
They have been sent. The message you see is not from PowerMail, but from
the remote ISP that rejected your message. Consider the message sent to
all recipients
Hi,
is there a way to automatically have a Bcc added to any outgoing message
by default? Adding a Bcc: line in the Additional Headers field of the
sending account does not work, since the header is seemingly not
interpreted at the position it is inserted by eitehr PM or the mail
server (don't
Juergen Schindler [Mi, 12. Nov 2003]:
First I wrote a message, told PM to send it with e.g. A-account and
queued the mail. But before connecting to the net I decided to send it
with B-account. I opened the message again, changed the account and I
queued it again.
But PM sends the message
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [Sa, 1. Nov 2003]:
This morning I was writing an email and I inadvertently attached the
wrong file. I could not un-attach it
Select the attachment at the bottom of the email window and hit the
Backspace or Delete key.
Regards,
Christian
Mikael Byström [Mi, 29. Okt 2003]:
Before I investigate this deeper in order to supply CTM with quality
info, please let me know if this is a known bug or if it is news to you guys.
I have reported the very same issue some time ago, but CTM wasn't able to
reproduce it. So - even if it is
Dietmar Harms [Di, 16. Sep 2003]:
I tried to upgrade my PowerMail 4.1.3 to 4.2. After a message saying that
my database has to be actualized and that I should make a backup before
(what I did), PowerMail 4.2 started indexing about 6.000 messages. After
a short time the progress bar freezes.
How
Marco Piovanelli [Mi, 10. Sep 2003]:
Try this instead:
move theMsg to message container Christian
Thanks Marco, this worked perfectly!
Regards, Christian.
Hi,
using PM 4.2b1, how can I force PM to send an attachment using, say
Base64 encoding? PM keeps telling me that the attachment will be
corrupted when sent with the specified encoding and that it will use
Smart instead. Sure enough, the file probably has a resource fork, but
I know for sure
Paul [Di, 27. Mai 2003]:
PROBLEM:
The message gets sent TWICE, once using account A (the original
account), and once using account B, the one it has been changed to.
Can anyone reproduce that behavior?
The same here. The problem still exists in pm 4.1.3. German version of
Powermail, MacOS
Rick Lecoat [Di, 6. Mai 2003]:
So this is what I can see a use for: a special window (summoned up from
the Window Menu, and called something like the Whole DB Window) that
displays EVERY message in the database, regardless of where it is filed.
I could sort that window by date and make
Larry Samberg [Sa, 12. Apr 2003]:
I know that the Girl has a menu behind herthe problem is that after I
have clicked REPLY and the reply message is open, I want to change it to
REPLY ALL (or vice versa)...
As long as you haven't started typing the message, I'd actually suggest
to close the
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M3R T. -+T@@6R Q-#DR(#0R-!=( TO3 S,#0T,[EMAIL PROTECTED](#$X-3$Y-B -
Yes, I can confirm that PowerMail has problems with inline attachments
that are uuencoded (or base64???). I do not know if this is wrong forming
I have a group of people I send EMail to.
Set as a group in my addressbook.
I sometimes get mail from one person and want to send
it to the group which this person is also in.
I ont want to send them back their own message.
How do I remove just one name from the group
1. Add the group to the
It is my understanding that requesting a receipt is based on a certain
mail header. So what I have done is added a custom header to the accounts
I want to receive receipt notifications:
Setup Accounts Identity Additional Headers:
Return-Receipt-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is what at least
In the Filters screens, when selecting a folder to move messages into
it is very difficult because there is no heirachal view available...
Here, the folder names appear quite noticeably indented in the large menu
reflecting their hierarchical position - if this is what you mean?
- Christian
Dear Jonathan,
Highlights... can this be an entire line instead of just a subject?
Seems to be an awkward implementation.
I think this is on purpose, as it allows you to start drawing a selection
rectangle from the non-highlighted points in a line. Otherwise, if the
full line was highlighted,
Dear Chris,
For the first time I want to export my entire mail database File-
Database- export and notice that the only export format available is
PowerMail Exchange. All the other buttons are greyed out.
this is because only the PM Exchange format supports exporting the DB in
one single file.
Sure wish there was some way I could flag a message to distinguish it
from all the rest, as in Apple's mail.app, and others.
You can use Labels from the Mail Label menu, to which you can set text
descriptions and colors under Preferences Labels.
However, you cannot search or filter the view
How do I re-send a previously sent message from the 'Out Tray'?
Select the message, then choose Send (Command-L) from the Message menu.
Greetings,
Christian.
This sounds to me like an argument for a Cocoa version of PowerMail.
Especially since the OS9 and OSX versions are separate apps anyway.
A Cocoa-PM, I fear, is equivalent to a rewrite from scratch. I do not
think CTM will do that any time soon - and I don't think they should.
There are other
Dear Takehiko,
4. Being able to edit recipients list without touching mouse.
I believe this was possible before.
I think this is still possible:
*.. Ctrl-up/down: select recipient (if already entered)
*.. Starting to type: entering recipient
*.. Cmd-up/down: choosing adressing mode (To /
Dear Greg,
So now I've got a situation where I can't read any of my email and thus
can't get to the email which has my code in it...
This is one of the few instances where it is actually good to have
PowerMail not store attachments in the database itself, but as normal
files in the
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