Re: Deleting filter doesn't work - Conclusions

2008-01-25 Thread Rick Lecoat
Um, to be honest, I wasn't really making a distinction between received and sent dates when I posted that. I was simply thinking of a 'date' and because I tend to sort my mail via date received rather than date sent (too many of my correspondents have dates wrongly set on their computers

Re: Deleting filter doesn't work - Conclusions

2008-01-24 Thread Rick Lecoat
Rene; Perhaps the filter condition is there precisely FOR manually activated filters. I know that in my own PM set up I have a bunch of filters down at the bottom of the filter list that are designed for manual use, not automated. If I wanted to move all of my mail over a certain date to

Re: exporting message status

2008-01-14 Thread Rick Lecoat
On 14/1/08 (05:52) MB said: One way to know would be to export from Mail and see if an import back to a newer version retain this status. Do you mean an import back into a newer version of Mail or a newer version of Powermail? Rick -- G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM :: 10.4.11 :: PM 5.5.2 :: 3

exporting message status

2008-01-12 Thread Rick Lecoat
Hi; I'm experimentally exporting my email (folder by folder) to Apple Mail. I'm not on the latest version of PM but can anyone tell me whether 5.6.1 still has the issue of every message exported (whether read, unread, redirected, forwarded, or whatever) getting imported as 'Unread'? Thanks; Rick

Re: deleted accounts

2008-01-08 Thread Rick Lecoat
On 7/1/08 (03:16) Tim said: The only thing I can recall is something I noted about Apple Mail. If you deleted an account in Apple Mail, all the mail associated with that account would be deleted along with it. I'm not aware of any problems in PowerMail associated with accessing mail belonging

Re: deleted accounts

2008-01-08 Thread Rick Lecoat
On 8/1/08 (13:43) Marlyse said: how about avoiding any possible problem and don't delete the accounts... Oh good lord no. I'm an anally-retentive idiot nutcase, Marlyse, so I'm afraid any such common sense approach is utterly out of the question. But thanks for your clear thinking and

deleted accounts

2008-01-07 Thread Rick Lecoat
Hi all; I'm about to 'rationalise' my email setup which might mean getting rid of some email accounts in PM. I seemed to recall that someone on this list had problems with Powermail after removing accounts from the Accounts list -- something about displaying mail in the browser if the account

Re: problem with PM search function

2007-11-30 Thread Rick Lecoat
On 30/11/07 (11:22) MB said: Rick Lecoat suggested Which leaves the question of 'when would PM notice that the index was missing?' I assume that having PM verify the location and condition of the index on a near-constant basis is not feasible -- too many calls back and forth between PM

Re: Aperture and PM - how to?

2007-11-26 Thread Rick Lecoat
On 26/11/07 (03:16) Matthias said: Hello, does anyone know, how to set in Apple's apps the mail client to PM? These apps, like Apertue don't respect the standard mail client and let one choose only between Mali, Eudora and Encourage, this is of course not what I want ;-) Thanks and all the best

Re: problem with PM search function

2007-11-26 Thread Rick Lecoat
On 25/11/07 (23:16) MB said: I was advocating that the user that had deleted the index should at startup or even the minute the index file got missing if running already, be prompted with appropriate information, asked to put it back - perhaps by the asking the user where to look for it- or to

Re: problem with PM search function

2007-11-23 Thread Rick Lecoat
On 23/11/07 (23:46) MB said: Indexes are such things I, and I suspect many users with me, generally would expect to be rebuilt without user intervention in most cases. Generally I would agree, but my experience would show that rebuilding the index can take a while (several minutes for my modest

Re: Time Machine and Powermail

2007-11-13 Thread Rick Lecoat
On 12/11/07 (19:22) Richard said: I respectfully disagree. First, my experience with SuperDuper is different from yours. It automatically backs up my disk drive while PowerMail is running. I have no problems restoring my mail. Fair enough, but this does go against the recommended practice,

Re: Time Machine and Powermail

2007-11-12 Thread Rick Lecoat
On 12/11/07 (12:24) PowerMail said: As with all other backup softwares, making a backup of PowerMail's database while PowerMail is open (especially with a scheduled connection) can probably produce a corrupted backup. Additionally, your entire mail database will be backed up every hour (assuming

Re: Time Machine and Powermail

2007-11-12 Thread Rick Lecoat
On 12/11/07 (13:13) MB said: If one can make do with manual export it is possibly the best approach to search and find on after a specific received date and export that in PowerMail exchange format. However I do have messages in my DB that was fetched on a future date by mistake (wrong machine

Re: Slow Address Book

2007-10-19 Thread Rick Lecoat
On 17/10/07 (02:24) Sean said: The contents of the Recent Mail window change if you quit PM and relaunch it. Mail is no longer recent at relaunch. That is of course, a definition of 'recent' imposed by the developers. In my real-world workflow, whether I deem a piece of mail to be 'recent' or

Re: Slow Address Book

2007-10-18 Thread Rick Lecoat
On 17/10/07 (06:36) Barbara said: That is what Rick [and others] want--- have to say I can see their point; it is one of the reasons I never bother with it. Actually what I want are Smart Folders. But failing that, I would dearly love a simply preference: Clear contents of Recent Mail Window at

Re: Slow Address Book

2007-10-17 Thread Rick Lecoat
On 17/10/07 (23:00) Mikael said: That's a known bug, but I don't remember which app is responsible for not playing nice with the other. One clue is that I don't have this problem with another backup application. So I wouldn't blame Powermail for this particular bug necessarily, at least not

Re: Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread

2007-09-19 Thread Rick Lecoat
On 18/9/07 (03:49) Steve said: I have over 100 nested folders, somewhere between 50k-100k emails, and the read and unread are interspersed throughout. Creating an unread folder and moving all unread mail there, then putting it back, would be a massive undertaking. Steve; If you're moving the

Re: Network Interface Errors

2007-08-31 Thread Rick Lecoat
On 30/8/07 (22:32) Ira said: Subject: Network Interface Error From: Ira Lansing [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:00:28 -0700 Pg0KPlN1YmplY3Q6IFJlOiBBIG5ldHdvcmsgaW50ZXJmYWNlIGVycm9yIG9jY3VycmVkICA8LSB0 Well, I sometimes see this gobbledegook in other postings, but never in mine.

Re: Smart folders

2007-08-30 Thread Rick Lecoat
On 30/8/07 (15:43) Georges said: Has any of you ever tried to replicate smart folders? No, but I really want CTM to *implement* them. I've been asking for them for at least a couple of years now, but there has never been even glimmer of response -- positive or negative -- on the matter from

Re: changing account on send

2007-06-04 Thread Rick Lecoat
Marlyse; Are you sure you didn't have a filter somewhere set to switch accounts under certain conditions? It's a long shot, I know, but that's all I can think of (I used to have a filter set up to make sure that mails to certain people all went from a specific account). Rick -- G5 2GHz x2 ::

Re: Applescript not triggering, WAS Attachment link failing

2007-05-01 Thread Rick Lecoat
Original message: Received from PowerMail Engineering on 1/5/07 at 11:23 set filter criterion result to true will set the result of the AppleScript condition. set filter criterion result to true being a line in the Applescript, presumably? (Sorry if that's really stupid-sounding, but I don't

Re: Applescript not triggering, WAS Attachment link failing

2007-04-30 Thread Rick Lecoat
Well, are you really using PM version 5.5.2 instead of 5.5.3? (I don't know that would cause problems for scripts in filters, but you never know.) Is there a reason you haven't upgraded? Laziness combined with no pressing need. I might update PM just to see if it makes a difference with this

Re: the list vs the user base (wasRe: bug or feature ?)

2007-04-26 Thread Rick Lecoat
That's your answer? Oh, Mikael. Or should I call you 'Mr Spock'? ; -) Rick -- G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM :: 10.4.7 :: PM 5.5.2 :: 3 pane mode -- Original message: Received from Mikael Byström on 26/4/07 at 13:42 Rick Lecoat said: Well, if you want 100 percent accuracy then you have to poll

Re: auto-move msg after reading

2007-04-25 Thread Rick Lecoat
The non-HTML version will print okay *only if* the sender's email client was correctly set up to include a non-HTML text part. Otherwise, you're stuck. Rick -- G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM :: 10.4.7 :: PM 5.5.2 :: 3 pane mode -- Original message: Received from Dave N on 24/4/07 at 04:20 The

Re: auto-move msg after reading

2007-04-25 Thread Rick Lecoat
And once again I'm going to climb on my 'feature request' soapbox and ask for a preference to make the recent mail window retain its contents between restarts. This would make my workflow immeasurably easier, and also make regularly scheduled backups (which properly require PM not to be running) a

Re: bug or feature ?

2007-04-25 Thread Rick Lecoat
Clearly this list is not all Powermail users. However, in the absence of direct input from every single PM user out there, can we not, for the purposes of discussion and friendly debate, assume that this list represents something approaching a representative cross section of the user base and

Re: the list vs the user base (wasRe: bug or feature ?)

2007-04-25 Thread Rick Lecoat
? Of course not. But I never suggested that it was. Rick -- G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM :: 10.4.7 :: PM 5.5.2 :: 3 pane mode -- Original message: Received from Mikael Byström on 25/4/07 at 20:45 Rick Lecoat said: However, in the absence of direct input from every single PM user out there, can we

Re: Applescript not triggering, WAS Attachment link failing

2007-04-24 Thread Rick Lecoat
There are a few earlier-placed filters that have that box checked, but they are all for highly specific conditions (specific account PLUS specific subject line, etc) and would not be cause for the complete failure to trigger that I'm seeing with this Applescript. But I think I've nailed the

Re: Applescript not triggering, WAS Attachment link failing

2007-04-24 Thread Rick Lecoat
yet. Does that take account of filter-moved attachments?) Rick -- G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM :: 10.4.7 :: PM 5.5.2 :: 3 pane mode -- Original message: Received from Rick Lecoat on 24/4/07 at 09:29 Not sure what the workaround it yet, but I'll try adding the 'Tag Attachments' script to any

Applescript not triggering, WAS Attachment link failing

2007-04-23 Thread Rick Lecoat
On a sort-of-related note: I have an apple script (not written by me -- I have no skills in that arena) that is supposed to fire any time a message comes in with an attachment. The script writes to the attached file's Finder comments (are they still called Finder Comments?), making a note of who

Re: Applescript not triggering, WAS Attachment link failing

2007-04-23 Thread Rick Lecoat
Okay Tim, thanks. Maybe the script is just too old then. Like I said, I have no applescript skills at all, so I can't diagnose whether it might be the script that has fallen behind the PM library. Here, then, is the full code of it, complete with comments and notes: . . . . . . . . . . (* tag

Re: Applescript not triggering, WAS Attachment link failing

2007-04-23 Thread Rick Lecoat
Original message: Received from cheshirekat on 23/4/07 at 13:49 Is your filter at the end of your list of filters, or where is it located? To act on all attachments received, it would need to be at or near the top of your list of filters. Or, at least should not follow any scripts that move the

Re: bug or feature ?

2007-04-20 Thread Rick Lecoat
Hmm. I've been following this thread for the last couple of days and I'm surprised that many of the people contributing to it are taking a stance that seems to be: this is not a problem in my own workflow, so I fail to see that it should be a problem in yours. The implication would seem to be that

Re: Mail Accounts

2007-04-13 Thread Rick Lecoat
A combination of key and brute force. The confusion came from the fact that when it's unlocked, it *feels* locked -- and you need to apply some strength to twist it free. When it's locked it just rotates freely, which feels broken, but isn't, evidently. New car, new ways. And now, back to our

Re: Sound still disappears from PM

2006-12-13 Thread Rick Lecoat
I'm thinking that the problem might be originating with iChat. I just restarted iChat and I think that it reinstated the sound alerts. I say *think* because I hadn't asked Powermail to do anything that would generate a sound for a while, so it might have gotten its sounds back earlier. But iChat

Re: Sound still disappears from PM

2006-12-13 Thread Rick Lecoat
Yeah, all my alert sounds. 'Played' sounds, eg iTunes and QT, still function normally, as do the feedback sounds when changing volume with the keyboard -- G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM :: 10.4.7 :: PM 5.5.2 :: 3 pane mode Shark Attack: A Design Studio www.sharkattack.co.uk -- Original message:

Re: Sound still disappears from PM

2006-11-24 Thread Rick Lecoat
Following on from the posts (partially-) quoted below, I can confirm the following: 1. My PM alert sounds have disappeared again (a few hours ago in fact, no idea of the trigger). 2. The Mac's alert sounds are also kaput -- no 'whoop' in iChat for example, and nothing heard if I tinker with

Sound still disappears from PM

2006-11-10 Thread Rick Lecoat
I'm still finding that after a while the alert sounds (well, all the sounds) from Powermail are being silenced. I have no idea what triggers it -- maybe something to do with iTunes or Quicktime? -- but it's actually rather annoying and more of a productivity block than I wold have expected. I'm

Re: broken mails not retrievable

2006-11-08 Thread Rick Lecoat
Hi Jérôme; It's hard to be certain about whether the broken message is a ghost message or not, as there was nothing to see in the headers (it got as far as RFC822 Header Follows and then nothing. I have a lot of incoming mail from the same people all the time so it is difficult to determine

Re: broken mails not retrievable

2006-11-07 Thread Rick Lecoat
And it's still going on (which is to be expected I guess as nothing has changed). But this is getting serious. Notwithstanding that the fact that primary issue is that my ISP can't sustain its connection in the evenings, Powermail's inability to deal properly with a prematurely broken connection

Re: Feature request; fixed-width toggle

2006-11-07 Thread Rick Lecoat
Yes, I'd love this feature as well. Way back in the day before I switched to PM I used Eudora and I found it surprisingly useful. Often I receive emails that I can see, from the text spacing, were composed using a fixed width font -- generally because the sender was dividing text into columns, eg.

broken mails not retrievable

2006-11-04 Thread Rick Lecoat
Hi all. For some reason, I've been getting regular internet connection outages at around the same time every night -- nothing to do with Powermail of course, but it does have a side effect. Often the connection goes down during a mail fetch, and I find that I am left with a half-downloaded,

Re: 256 User License (was: Re: PowerMail 5.5 final candidate)

2006-10-13 Thread Rick Lecoat
Ah, the old cowboys and endians problem. Quick, pull the macs into a circle... Rick -- G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM :: 10.4.7 :: PM 5.2.3 :: 3 pane mode Shark Attack: A Design Studio www.sharkattack.co.uk -- Original message: Received from CTM info on 12/10/06 at 10:59 Seems like a

Re: Strange bug.

2006-10-13 Thread Rick Lecoat
Mikael; Just to clarify your question: Do you mean that text that is copied out of PM and pasted into (for example) OmniOutliner should take its formatting from the paragraph that it is pasted into? If so, then what this needs is a quick way of stripping formatting out of text held on the

default addresses

2006-09-20 Thread Rick Lecoat
Right, here's the thing. I realise that PM allows me to define which email address is the default one for a given correspondent by opening up Powermail's own address book and marking the relevant address with a yellow dot. Unfortunately, sometimes this gets overwritten/reset when the PM address

Re: dock menu always says 'force quit'

2006-08-19 Thread Rick Lecoat
Well, whatever, I relaunched PM again and the weirdness appears to have vanished. I'm back to having a regular Quit at the bottom of the dock menu. Perhaps not unconnected, the reason that I relaunched PM was because I minimised the Recent Mail window to the dock, and it didn't want to come out

Re: dock menu always says 'force quit'

2006-08-19 Thread Rick Lecoat
No, if the button that is supposed to give me a 'ctrl-click' is actually giving me 'alt-ctrl-click' I think that I'd have noticed by now. My mouse settings are correct. And PM is the only app who's dock icon menu shows Force Quit. Rick -- G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM :: 10.4.7 :: PM 5.2.3 ::

Re: dock menu always says 'force quit'

2006-08-19 Thread Rick Lecoat
No, no Alt key. Just a simple ctrl-click (actually a right-click with my 2-button mouse). As an idiot-test I also tried the normal-click-and-hold which also calls the contextual menu for the dock item, and that also shows Force Quit. How strange! Apart from that small glitch PM is working fine.

Re: Back up options

2006-08-04 Thread Rick Lecoat
I could easily automate a system to quit PM, perform a backup of all my files, and relaunch PM, but the RMW, which sort of serves as a things to deal with tray for me. Whoops, that sentence should have ended: '...but the RMW, which sort of serves as a things to deal with tray for me would be

Re: Back up options

2006-08-04 Thread Rick Lecoat
I've said it many times before, but PM's insistence upon wiping clean the Recent Mail Window whenever it Quits severely hampers my backup strategy. I could easily automate a system to quit PM, perform a backup of all my files, and relaunch PM, but the RMW, which sort of serves as a things to deal

PM sound loss

2006-07-11 Thread Rick Lecoat
Hi all. List has been fairly quiet recently so I thought I'd try you lot with something that is far from being a crisis but is enough to be annoying. After PM has been running for a while it seems to suddenly lose its sound. No incoming mail noises (that's the most annoying one, really), and no

Re: Solving filter list management problem (was RMW in browser)

2006-03-23 Thread Rick Lecoat
I do the same thing -- 'dummy' filters that act as dividers. Folders would be preferable, of course, as they would, when collapsed, actually shorten the filter list considerably, whereas our current workaround lengthens it. From my own point of view, the filter organisation issue is a completely

Re: RMW in browser

2006-03-22 Thread Rick Lecoat
Oh, think we can have both, don't you? Rick -- G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM :: 10.4.5 :: PM 5.2.3 :: 3 pane mode Shark Attack: A Design Studio www.sharkattack.co.uk -- Original message: Received from Matthias Schmidt on 22/3/06 at 14:07 On the other side, imho smart folders would be even

Re: RMW in browser

2006-03-22 Thread Rick Lecoat
Original message: Received from Mikael Byström on 22/3/06 at 13:39 I'm still thinking about the problem space and trying to understand the somewhat obscure suggestions that have been made. Good for you. Me, I'm going to get on with some work. Rick

Re: RMW in browser

2006-03-22 Thread Rick Lecoat
Actually Matthias, the folders that I would like to see in the filter window would be for organisation only and would be completely transparent to the filter run-order. Ie: Folder A filter 1 filter 2 filter 3 Folder B filter 4 filter 5 Would still result in the filters

Re: RMW in browser (was Re: MacBook Pro, PM 5.2.3 Rebuilding Sort Indices)

2006-03-21 Thread Rick Lecoat
Mikael; I certainly agree that newcomers should be amply catered for; they are the lifeblood of any small developer. However, this is POWERmail... and having a greater degree of sophistication available for those who want it would seem to go along with the name, and cannot be a bad thing

Re: MacBook Pro, PM 5.2.3 Rebuilding Sort Indices

2006-03-21 Thread Rick Lecoat
I can't help thinking that maybe PM should be able to deal with such corrupted HTML messages more gracefully than this. Victor alone would seem to have lost 24 hours or more of time to this problem. Certain things need to be acknowledged I think: 1. Whatever our feelings about them, we all

Re: PowerMail Feature Requests (attachments)

2006-03-16 Thread Rick Lecoat
Yes, I wondered about that too. Perhaps the script is called too soon or something. However, as I say, when it comes to the 'under the hood' stuff I don't really know nuttin' so I'll leave it to better folks than I to work out the nitty gritty. Rick -- G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM :: 10.4.5 ::

Re: PowerMail Feature Requests (attachments)

2006-03-16 Thread Rick Lecoat
Rick Lecoat on 16/3/06 at 08:53 Hi Justin; Since the script works when you run the filter manually then I'd say that the problem is most likely not in the script but in your filter list. Probably there is some filter higher up the food chain that is stopping the message from reaching the script

Re: PowerMail Feature Requests (attachments)

2006-03-16 Thread Rick Lecoat
Hi Justin; Since the script works when you run the filter manually then I'd say that the problem is most likely not in the script but in your filter list. Probably there is some filter higher up the food chain that is stopping the message from reaching the script filter. Remember, filters (when

Re: emails gone?

2006-03-15 Thread Rick Lecoat
Hi Willem; Glad to have you back, sorry to hear about your trouble. Since I have no knowledge of databases and suchlike, the only thing that I can think of is that maybe when you returned to using Powermail after your little flirtation with Mail, you inadvertently started a new PM database.

Re: PowerMail Feature Requests

2006-02-25 Thread Rick Lecoat
This thread is starting to evolve into several separate discussion threads. Maybe we should start to rename the subject line appropriately? Rick -- G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM :: 10.4.3 :: PM 5.2.3 :: 3 pane mode Shark Attack: A Design Studio www.sharkattack.co.uk

Re: PowerMail Feature Requests

2006-02-25 Thread Rick Lecoat
Oh that is odd, my set up (clearly) doesn't exhibit that behaviour. I wonder if dumping your PM preferences would cure that? Rick -- G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM :: 10.4.3 :: PM 5.2.3 :: 3 pane mode Shark Attack: A Design Studio www.sharkattack.co.uk -- Original message: Received from Andy

Re: Searching (was: New MacOS X trojan/virus alert)

2006-02-25 Thread Rick Lecoat
Ah ha. I had a look on the PM Script archive but didn't see anything that looked like it would do that particular job. And since I know as much about Applescript as I know about the inside of the sun, I'm not about to try and write one myself. Anyway, I feel better knowing which mail folder the

Re: Searching (was: New MacOS X trojan/virus alert)

2006-02-24 Thread Rick Lecoat
2006 schreef Rick Lecoat: Anybody have anything to suggest? How can I perform a search that will find every HTML carrying message in my database (but not the plain text ones)? And, more to the point, how can I ID the specific virus carrying message out of a database of over 38,000 messages?

Re: Searching (was: New MacOS X trojan/virus alert)

2006-02-24 Thread Rick Lecoat
message is of the 1252-type. Karel Op vrijdag, 24 februari 2006 schreef Rick Lecoat: Anybody have anything to suggest? How can I perform a search that will find every HTML carrying message in my database (but not the plain text ones)? And, more to the point, how can I ID the specific virus

Re: Searching (was: New MacOS X trojan/virus alert)

2006-02-24 Thread Rick Lecoat
Only one problem with that Karel; the Other field option appears in Filters but not in Search. At least, it doesn't seem to appear in my search dialogue box. I had thought that searching by Other headers was the way to go too -- until I tried it and realised that the options was not there. I

Searching (was: New MacOS X trojan/virus alert)

2006-02-24 Thread Rick Lecoat
Hi Karel, thanks for your ideas. The only problem with your exporting idea to narrow down the offending message is that I have hundreds of nested folders in my database, and the culprit could be in almost any of them (the Powermail Discussions List folder is about the ONLY folder that I can

Re: PowerMail Feature Requests

2006-02-24 Thread Rick Lecoat
For one thing, Powermail dates back to OS9 which, of course, did not include Apple Address Book. When the OS X version of PM arrived (or maybe it a revision or two later) CTM provided a way for the existing PM address book to integrate with the Apple one. And for people like me, who for quite a

Re: New MacOS X trojan/virus alert

2006-02-19 Thread Rick Lecoat
Coincidentally, a few days before this trojan-or-whatever-it-is came to light a friend of mine had been waxing enthusiastic about the open- source virus scanner for OSX ClamXav (a GUI front end to the command- line ClamAV antivirus engine). So as soon as the malware appeared, I decided to

Re: PM key, cont

2006-02-17 Thread Rick Lecoat
Hi Shell, and welcome. I think that you may have gone about it slightly back to front. If memory serves (and it's been a while since I registered a copy of PM so I might be wrong) you should *drop the application onto the key*, not the other way around. If you drop the key on the app, PM,

Re: SpamSieve Auto (not) Start

2006-01-28 Thread Rick Lecoat
No problems here either (SpamSieve 2.4.1, other system elements as noted in sig). I did do the double click trick when I updated SpamSieve, ie. launched it manually before letting PM call it. Perhaps that's why I and some others are not having any trouble whilst other folks are? Rick -- G5

Re: lost data base

2005-12-06 Thread Rick Lecoat
Dave; Oh dear. That is a bad 'un. Several utilities exist for recovering deleted files; as you may know, a deleted file (ie. one that you've put in the trash and then emptied) is not really erased, it is merely removed from the list of 'current' files and the space it takes up is flagged by the

Re: AddressBook sync problems

2005-11-21 Thread Rick Lecoat
I also have PM set to take its updates from Apple Address Book (AAB) and NOT the other way around. So I make all my address changes in AAB, not PM. However, I also have PM set to update whenever it is brought to the front, as well as upon launch, and I do not have any problems. Maybe you could

Re: Can no longer abort sending in 5.2.1?

2005-11-18 Thread Rick Lecoat
Having a keyboard shortcut would be a good thing for this function I think. Occasionally I send a message and instantly realise that I need to stop it -- especially since I use the preference to allow the Enter key to Send. Something like the traditional Cmd-. (period) or even Cmd- escape would

Re: Easy way for in-line email grapics

2005-09-17 Thread Rick Lecoat
not yet capable More to the point, it has no plans to be. PowerMail has always been about plain text output only. The pros and cons of HTML mail are regularly (and heatedly) debated on this mailing list, but the short, blunt version is that if you need to *send* HTML email then PowerMail is not

Re: Signatures (Feature Suggestion?)

2005-09-16 Thread Rick Lecoat
Ahh, right, my misunderstanding, sorry. Rick -- G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM :: 10.4.1 :: PM 5.2 :: 3 pane mode Shark Attack: A Design Studio www.sharkattack.co.uk -- Original message: Received from Simon Troup on 16/9/05 at 04:36 Sorry if my original post wasn't very clear, I wasn't asking

Re: Signatures (Feature Suggestion?)

2005-09-16 Thread Rick Lecoat
Tim; Yes, the 'fly' that you mention is exactly the problem that I foresaw in my own post in this thread -- multiple, conflicting, Address Book- dictated sigs. You say that you do not see the situation arising often, but remember that this thread started with Simon who raised the issue because

Re: Folder Organisation

2005-09-14 Thread Rick Lecoat
Original message: Received from PowerMail Engineering on 14/9/05 at 10:43 No; the list is the right place for such suggestions. Then I have a suggestion/request (in fact I have loads, and I make you poor souls listen to them on a regular basis, as you well know). It is this: I would like to be

Re: Multi language spelling

2005-09-14 Thread Rick Lecoat
I don't think you can be selective. It's one language or all. Of course, this might cause problems if a word in Italian happens to be exactly the same as the way that you misspell a word in English (and no, I can't think of an example). Of course, even selective languages wouldn't make spell

Re: Spam Sieve Stopped working?

2005-09-10 Thread Rick Lecoat
Could be a permissions problem with Spam Sieve, try repairing permissions using Disk Utility or one of the various third party apps and see if it makes any difference. If not then somebody else had better weigh in 'cause I'm out of ideas now. Rick -- G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM :: 10.4.1 :: PM

Re: Flags and/or

2005-09-03 Thread Rick Lecoat
I'm increasingly of the opinion that smart folders would fulfill a quite a few items on my PM wishlist (though not the merger of the recent mail window and the rest of the browser). From a GUI perspective this would be a simple solution: Any 'smart folders would simply appear below the Out tray

PM 'memory' between relaunches

2005-08-29 Thread Rick Lecoat
I know this is a regular topic, and has just been mentioned in passing in both the 'Automating PM' and 'PM for Apple User' threads, but it's fresh in my mind and I want to raise it again under its own thread title -- the problem of losing everything in the Recent Mail Window (RMW) when PM

Re: automating PowerMail

2005-08-28 Thread Rick Lecoat
I use a similar system -- label number 1 is called Flagged for attention. Being able to search by label is useful. However, it requires that I remember to UNlabel the message after I'f dealt with it, which makes it a workaround but not an ideal solution. Rick -- G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM ::

Re: PM for AppleMail user?

2005-08-28 Thread Rick Lecoat
I feel a compulsion to give every new version of Mail (which usually means the version shipping with each major OS X update; Panther, Tiger etc) a spin around the block to see if it is serviceable for my needs. I always want it to be a suitable replacement for PM -- not because I dislike PM but

Re: IMAP and WASTE

2005-06-02 Thread Rick Lecoat
I don't use IMAP either. Mainly that is because I've always had POP mailboxes provided by my ISP and since I work in a one-standalone- machine setup I've not been part of a networked email serving system. That said, I have little interest in it either. I'm one of those types who likes to keep

Apple Address importing

2005-05-18 Thread Rick Lecoat
Just an idea I'm throwing out to the group, but I synch my PM address Book to the Apple one (with the Apple AB as the master -- no return synching, that got messy). However, not every contact in my Apple address book has an email address, yet PM imports them anyway -- so the PM address book has a

Re: PM 5.2b3 : an issue with french language

2005-05-02 Thread Rick Lecoat
Yes, I can. But I'm still no wiser as to what these check boxes actually DO! I like to learn. Somebody teach me! Rick -- G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM :: 10.3.8 :: PM 5.1 :: 3 pane mode -- Original message: Received from listes on 1/5/05 at 2:21 pm can you uncheck your system-preferred

Re: Import Attachments

2005-04-29 Thread Rick Lecoat
Evie, I think you may be worrying unnecessarily! If the attachments exist as files and those files are already linked to the emails in PowerMail (and those links are live, ie. not greyed out) the you should be home and dry, because PM should keep track of the attachments as you move them around.

Re: Recent Mail Window enhancements request

2005-03-18 Thread Rick Lecoat
Just another example of how widely people's work styes differ! Barbara never use the Recent Mail window -- I'd be completely lost without it (much of my mail is auto-filtered into folders, and locating each bold folder in a hierarchy to read the new mail would be a wearisome chore). Marlyse's

Recent Mail Window enhancements request

2005-03-18 Thread Rick Lecoat
I've put these feature requests into the mix at various points in the past but I thought I'd reiterate them in one coherent chunk, as they all pertain to the Recent Mail window (RMW). I LOVE the recent Mail window, and in fact I read nearly all of my email from there, only needing the browser

Re: Why I'm switching from PowerMail to OS X Mail

2005-03-18 Thread Rick Lecoat
Hi Dan; I agree entirely with Michael when he says that this is really a matter of opinion, and everyone should choose the application that's right for them. I dip into Mail every time they bring out a major new version (ie. I looked at it when Panther came out and I'll no doubt reassess it when

Re: [OT]Oldest member of list

2005-03-18 Thread Rick Lecoat
A belated Happy Birthday to you, Len! Rick -- He couldn't decide what to do, so he decided to watch what the government was doing and sort of scale it down to size, and run his life that way. -- Original message: Received from Leonard Morgenstern on 11/3/05 at 4:14 pm 82 as of last Friday.

Re: Powermail icons

2005-03-15 Thread Rick Lecoat
As far as I know, PM adopts whatever the default folder icon used by the finder is set to. Candybar (which I also use) changes this default, so the folders in PM will change also. I don't know if there is any way to separate the two (finder and PM); If you are using Candybar I think that you

resynch address book [u]

2005-01-31 Thread Rick Lecoat
Hi gang; Does anyone know of a way to update the PM address book from the Apple one? I was dragging an email address out of the PM address book (PMAB) in order to copy it into the body of a message, and it caused PM to crash. After that, when I relaunched the app, that address (one of three

Re: why does mark as unread delete answered info? [u]

2005-01-26 Thread Rick Lecoat
Agreed. If it's replied to, it should be marked as replied to, end of story. If it's later remarked as unread, fine; it should then show up as unread AND replied to. It is obviously NOT impossible for a message to be both unread and replied to, as it is possible remark messages as unread. There

Re: Powermail does not scroll with mouse [u]

2005-01-26 Thread Rick Lecoat
Yes, I've never found it possible to scroll an HTML message using the mouse scroll wheel (Logitech wired optical mouse). Ever since PM5, this disfunction has carried over to non-HTML messages if there is an HTML message open in any window. Eg. I have an HTML message on display in the Recent Mail

Re: Alphabetizing Outgoing names

2004-12-02 Thread Rick Lecoat
On a side note, I find the parsing of addresses into the To field to be a little unpredictable. Here's my system: I have some people who I always thing of by a nickname, and I put this nickname into the Notes section of Apple Address Book (AAB). I also use the AAB notes section for entering the

feature request

2004-11-25 Thread Rick Lecoat
I have my preferences set up so that the default setting for replying to a message places the quoted text at the *end* of the message. Something that would help me out enormously would be to have a key code (eg, Cmd-Ctrl-R) to reverse that default, just for that instance -- so, in my case it

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