Re: lost data base

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 o

Re: AddressBook sync problems

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 try

Re: Can no longer abort sending in 5.2.1?

ttack: A Design Studio -- Original message: Received from PowerMail Engineering on 19/11/05 at 08:34 >Rick Lecoat wrote: > >>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 >>t

Re: Can no longer abort sending in 5.2.1?

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 be

Re: FINALLY: PM ARCHIVES!

Yeah, the archive list is a problem because, as has previously been mentioned, if munges some email addresses and not others. The address of the poster is hidden, but any email addresses in the body of the message show up as normal, and of course this occurs all the time because people use email a

Re: Easy way for in-line email grapics

>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?)

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 -- 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 that.

Re: Signatures (Feature Suggestion?)

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 he

Re: Signatures (Feature Suggestion?)

My understanding of how email works is that a single message is created and recipient addresses allocated to it, then it is sent out; the mail server then sends that one message to each of the addresses. The sig is part of the message, not added by the mail server. Surely a per-addressee sig woul

Re: Folder Organisation

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

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 chec

Re: Hard wrap of outgoing messages

This has come up before and it has been explained by others on this list who understand such things that the hard wrapping is nothing to do with the email client but is a result of the way that the mail servers process the message data. So I would assume that this means that there is nothing that

Re: Multi language spelling

George; From the edit menu in PM select Spelling > Spelling... (Cmd-: or Cmd-shift-;) (I think you have to have some editable text to make that selection, so just start a message and type a word before you go to the Edit menu). In the dialogue box that comes up, set the 'dictionary' pop up menu t

Re: Spam Sieve Stopped working?

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

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 a

PM 'memory' between relaunches

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 restarts

Re: automating PowerMail

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 :: 10

Re: PM for AppleMail user?

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 b

Re: IMAP and WASTE

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 nea

exporting to Mail

Hi chaps; With the advent of Tiger, I'm doing what I do every time one of Apple's new big cats slinks into view -- I'm giving this version of Apple Mail a trot around the park to see how it works out and how it compares to Powermail. Now I could just start it up all fresh and empty, but that's n

Apple Address importing

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

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 langu

Re: PM 5.2b3 : an issue with french language

This isn't a Tiger-specific feature -- I'm still on 10.3.8 and I have full access to the language sections of the Get Info box. Rick -- G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM :: 10.3.8 :: PM 5.1 :: 3 pane mode -- Original message: Received from listes on 30/4/05 at 9:03 pm >> I had no idea that this i

Re: PM 5.2b3 : an issue with french language

I had no idea that this information even appeared in the info window -- you really do learn a new thing every day! I know this isn't strictly a PM question, but can anyone enlighten me as to what the checkboxes in the Language section of Get Info activate or deactivate? And what are the implicat

Re: Import Attachments

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: Mail Trash Problem

And, just to try the obvious, have you checked that you don't have 'View unread' selected for the Mail Trash folder? I'm guessing that mail in the Trash has been marked as read (either automatically or by actually being read...) Just a thought. Rick -- G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM :: 10.3.8 :: P

Re: Recent Mail Window enhancements request

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 id

Recent Mail Window enhancements request

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 wind

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

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

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 Frida

Re: Powermail icons

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 might

resynch address book [u]

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 liste

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

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 a

Re: Powermail does not scroll with mouse [u]

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 W

Re: Ciphire Mail [u]

I've just been looking at this myself in the last couple of days, although I've not actually installed it yet. But it does have some nice aspects to it, like being able to set up encryption on an address by address basis (eg. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is receives unencrypted mail, whilst anything sent to

Re: Alphabetizing Outgoing names

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

feature request

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 would

Re: PM quits unexpected - IMAP

OUCH! The mutli-paragraphed subject line of this thread was making a hideous mess of my mail browser -- I actually thought there was a bug in the app at first, but no, it was just somebody pasting half an email into their subject line for some reason. I've fixed the subject line locally, and fig

HTML hyperlinks in 5.1

I don't know if anyone else is seeing this in the new version of PM (5.1, English version) but text hyperlinks in HTML messages do not seem to work properly. When I open such a message and see it's links displayed, as expected as blue text, but a single click on the link simply turns it red, it do

moving from AOL and from windows to mac

Hi all. My sister is planning (with my encouragement and needling) to switch from her old PC to a nice new iMac. Hurrah, is of course the cry that goes up. But it's proving tricky, mainly because she uses AOL and I'm trying to figure out how she can move her archived AOL mail (in her Personal Fil

Re: signatures

I think I'd prefer the address book method of specifying signatures rather than a filter option. The reason is that I tend to use one filter to deal with both incoming and outgoing email, so I wouldn't be able to have just one filter per addressee any more; I'd have to have one filter for filing t

Re: Text Formatting

I for one miss a feature that I remember from Eudora way back in the day: Having a button in the toolbar (or wherever, there are myriad options now that PM has so many customisable toolbars in different windows :) that switched the message display font to a specified fixed width font like courier

Re: Mail Filter enhancement requests

-- Original message: Received from Mikael Byström on 12/9/04 at 1:06 pm >When setting up incoming and outgoing mail filters it would be very >useful to be able to choose "From or To" instead of having to have 2 >lines, one for "From" and one for "To" (having to copy the address too as >the messag

searching through spam

My Spam filters include the action "Do not index message content". If I then want to search through the Spam folder (to make sure that a specific email hasn't been marked as Spam by mistake, for example), how can I manually index the folder to make those mails searchable? TIA Rick -- G5 2GHz x2

OT: HTML vs Rich text

Hi gang; This is slightly off topic, but back in the days when I used to use Eudora I recall that in between the options for sending email either as Plain Text or as HTML, there was a middle option: Rich Text. As I remember it, this allowed basic text formatting (Bold, italic, increase size etc)

Odd email from (possibly) PM discussions

Dear list; After years of sending messages to this list without a hitch, I just received a peculiar message purporting to be from . It asks me to reply and type in a 'MailSword code'. I seem to recall this causing irritation to some on the list a few days ago when it seemed to originate from Marc

Re: Receiving PDFs

Zeph, I can't comment much on your own issue (although I realise that you started this thread), but with regard to Willaim Lisowski's problem my point was that the sit is probably supposed to be on the end. Here is my suspected sequence of events: 1. file.pdf is compressed by sender, resulting in

Re: Receiving PDFs

William; I'm wondering if the problem is partly due to the name of the file (newsletter.pdf.sit) having 2 periods in it? Although not often a major problem, this is a bad naming policy since it has the potential to confuse the computer about what the file name suffix is. I know that you have no

Re: A stupid compacting question. Nevertheless.

The old files are a backup of the database prior to compacting. Once you have tested the new, compact version and are happy that it is performing as intended, you can trash the 'old' files. Hope this helps; Rick -- G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM :: 10.3.2 :: PM 5.0 :: 3 pane mode -- Original mes

Filtering by sender in group

I've been trying to figure out why a filter is not working on a message. The criteria that *should* catch it is: If IS IN GROUP then file in folder LCP Gang. The friend in question is indeed part of that address book group, but the filter does not act on the message, either automatically or m

Re: Spamsieve not working in 5.0?

I had some initial trouble with Spamsieve under PM5, however it's now working okay and I have *not* had to set my SPAM: Evaluation filter to 'Always'. It is set to 'Sender is not in address book', as set by the Spam Filter Assistant. The problem turned out to be the fact that I didn't notice that

Re: PowerMail from Netscape

My advice as far as returning to a specific point just prior to the import process would be to make a copy of your powermail files folder and do all your import experiments on that. If you need to undo the imports then just throw away that folder and make a fresh copy from your untouched original.

Re: echo please

Marlyse; I use iCal via Powermail, which is a patcher that rejigs something inside iCal. Now, all my reminder emails are sent by PM. If you want to revert to using Mail for iCal alarms, you have to reinstall iCal, but why would anyone want to revert to using Mail? It's at:

Re: How to filter executable attachments (.exe, .scr, .inf, .pif etc.)?

Olaf; The new version of PM (v5, currently available as a beta) lets you do this straight from the filter setup box. Under PM 4.x, however, the best way is to use the apple script "Remove Listed Attachments", which you can download from the PM Applescript archive on Wayne Brissette's invaluable s

Re: Folder Is... filter condition

But that still doesn't get around the problem of the old messages (the ones that the filter is supposed to act upon were received days ago) not being selected. As far as I can tell, filters will act automatically on messages 'in motion' (ie. incoming or outgoing) or manually on *selected* messages

Re: Folder Is... filter condition

Jérôme The theory (and it could be an erroneous one) is that the filter gets run every time new mail arrives -- since when new mail arrives PM automatically runs all filters in order (until it gets a positive result for one that has the "No more filters" box checked). I was hoping that it would a

Re: Folder Is... filter condition

Oh, okay. In that case can you confirm that my filter structure is correct so that it will work when I get the full version 5? Cheers; Rick -- G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM :: 10.3.2 :: PM 5.0b12 :: 3 pane mode -- Original message: Received from PowerMail Engineering on 27/4/04 at 1:15 pm >>Ca

Re: Alias Support

Thanks for that info, Jérôme; For those of us using the beta, does that mean that we'll be able to use the Full version 5 to update message/attachment links that have been lost in the conversion to the beta version? Rick -- G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM :: 10.3.2 :: PM 5.0b12 :: 3 pane mode --

Folder Is... filter condition

Hi Can someone explain to me how to use the filter condition "Folder Is:"? My situation is that I receive (and retain) digests from MacFixit.com, and these contain links to articles on the web, but these links are only valid for a few days. So any digests older than a few days are useless, and I

files that HTML messages create

Here's a questions that I've wondered about for ages but never got around to asking: When HTML messages arrive, I sometimes get a file in the attachments folder called "Enclosure.html", sometimes one called "PowerMail HTML message.html", and sometimes the HTML message does not create a file at all

Re: PM5 bug with previously sent msgs

Update to that bug: Filters applied manually do not seem to work at all. Filters get applied fine to messages when they are called automatically, but they don't seem to work using the Apply All Filters menu command or keyboard shortcut. Eg. I send a friend an email and a filter auto-moves the mes

PM5 bug with previously sent msgs

Since upgrading to PM5 I've set up some new filters to take care of some mail that was hanging around in my Out Tray (I'm one of those people who has a filter for almost every person in my address book, so I have very little mail in my In or Out Trays). However, the filters do not want to work on

Re: PM and Spelling

Chris; Right click / control click on the red-flagged suspect spelling, and you'll be presented with a list of options. -- G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM :: 10.3.2 :: PM 4.2.1 :: 3 pane mode -- Original message: Received from Chris Walker on 29/3/04 at 5:20 pm >Thanks Rick. That one does flag u

Re: PM and Spelling

Hiro's key code may be specific to japanese keyboards; on my UK layout the keycode to invoke OSX's inbuilt spell check is Cmd-; (*ie. Apple + semicolon). No shift. Hope this helps; Rick -- G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM :: 10.3.2 :: PM 4.2.1 :: 3 pane mode -- Original message: Received from Chri

Re: draft folder for PowerMail

Max, you could resolve this problem by changing your sorting criteria in the Out Box. Mine is currently set to sort via the 'Date Sent' column, and so Drafts all appear at the very top of the window since they don't yet have a 'sent' date. But if you sort by 'Date Saved' instead, then the drafts

Re: powermail-discuss Digest #1750 - 03/09/04

Just to put Matthew out of his misery... Matthew, do this: Option-click on any Powermail discussion list message to view the full headers (or select View Full Headers from the View menu); the instructions for unsubscribing form the list are at the end of the full header. Rick -- G5 2GHz x2 ::

Re(2): Carbon vs Coaco

The web page that Willem gathered this information from is at: . Hope this helps; Rick -- Shark Attack Design -- Original message: Received from smelik on 8/3/04 at 10:43 am >I once stored the following info (below) about Hebrew and HTML, and

Re: Filter question

Craig; Filter only show up in the list if they have either the incoming or outgoing check-boxes selected, since whether a filter is greyed out or not is decided by PowerMail contextually (ie. if the message was sent by you then filters that only apply to incoming messages will be greyed out, if y

Re: PM on Panther 1st Impressions

As far as I can tell PM does indeed continue to check mail in user account 'A' even whilst fast-switched to user account 'B'. I have a 2nd account on my machine for my girlfriend to use and often when she's logged into her side of things I hear PM chime to alert me to new mail on my side (she uses

Re: Compress database

Subhash: I'm assuming that you are referring to what, in the English version of PM, is called Compact Database. This does not 'compress' files in the same way as Stuffit or File Vault; it is more like defragmenting a hard drive (except that, of course, it only affects the PM database). When you d

Re: Lost shortcode

I wondered about that; it is possible, but I can't think of a Cmd-Ctrl-R shortcode in another app that might interfere. I don't use any shortcode- assigning apps like key xing so I won't have allocated one myself by accident. I think... Rick -- G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM :: 10.3.1 :: PM 4.2.1

Lost shortcode

Somewhere down the line of updates I seem to have lost the functionality of one of PM's shortcodes, specifically: Cmd-Ctrl-R to bring up the Recent Mail Window (RMW). My other window codes work (Cmd-Ctrl-B for the browser, Cmd-Ctrl-A for the address book) but the RMW one doesn't. My Cmd key works,

Re(3): PowerMail 4.2.1 and Panther: Problem stuffing attachments

Just t add to the body of facts, I'm using Stuffit 7.0.3 with the PM/OS configuration below and my stuffit checkbox at the bottom of a message works fine. So I'd say that it's not a simple case of Stuffit being broken in PM 4.2.1 under Panther, but must be a more complex combination of factors. N

Re(3): multi comptes (solved)

Original message: Received from John Snippe on 17/11/03 at 2:35 pm >Needless to say, I feel more than a little bit foolish at the moment. But you're man enough to admit it, so more power to you John! Being willing to 'fess up to our dumber moments is what separates us from the lobsters. So let

RE: side effect of the PM maintenance window

Ahh, yes well... umm... I didn't actually realise that that would work. Well done Jeff, it's the dunce corner for me. The only problem I have with that is that my new G5 is sooo damn fast that it's actually tricky to sneak the key-press into the micro-gap before PM launches --- but that's not som

side effect of the PM maintenance window

This is not a new issue, but I've just never got around to mentioning it before: on those occasions when I need to invoke the Powermail maintenance screen by launching it with the Command+Option keys held down, the side affect is to hide all the other applications that are currently running. I kno

Re: Error under Panther - FileVault?

MacUser magazine has just reported a problem with Panther's Filevault that can corrupt preferences, keychains, safari, mail and iCal data, and generally be a right royal pain in the behind. There's a thread o the Apple boards about it here:

Re: Text Wrapping (resend)

Previous threads on this subject have seemed to settle on the fact that the wrapping is not done by the email client (in this case PM) but rather by the mail server that handles the transmission. Hope this helps; Rick -- G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM :: 10.2.8 :: PM 4.2.1 :: 3 pane mode -- Orig

Re(2): Connect from toolbar click speed

Marlyse; Whoops! I was slightly inaccurate in my original post, sorry. A *single* click brings up the button's sub-menu (a double click actually calls it and then dismisses it again). My sig, stating my system specs, was also out of date, I'm also using 10.2.8. Changing my keyboard prefs to match

Connect from toolbar click speed

I've come across a glitch in PM that might have been mentioned before. As you know, clicking on the 'Connect Again' button on the toolbar (the one with the little red arrow) will do exactly that -- check whichever accounts are usuallly checked via a Connect Again command. Whereas a Click-and-hold

Re: Address Book Quirks

For the sake of uber-completeness, perhaps going to Powermail > preferences > address book and clicking the Clear History button might be a final step in your purging process? Hope this helps; Rick -- G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM :: 10.2.7 :: PM 4.2.1 :: 3 pane mode -- Original message: Receiv

Re: Address Book Quirks

Michael; Just because there are addresses in PM that you don't want in the Apple Address Book (AAB), doesn't mean that you can't still use the latter to synch to. Just set it up so that PM updates itself from the AAB, but that the AAB does NOT get updated from PM. You'll have all of your AAB con

Re: PowerMail and SpamSieve

Since several other people on this list, myself included, have no problem with integrating SpamSieve 2.x and PM 4.x the problem must be something poarticular to your installation. Have you tried reinstalling Spamsieve and recreating from scratch those filters that call the SS scripts? Failing th

Re: PowerMail and SpamSieve

Spamsieve 2.x uses slightly different scripts I think from 1.x (I could be wrong but I think I recall reading something in the documentation to that effect. If you havn't already done so make sure that you've replaced the old SS 1.x scripts in your scripts folder with the new ones and make sure th

Re: PM Crash needs help!

Hiro; There are various support files for Apple Address Book. The plist is just one. Do a search for files containing "address" and see what crops up but there will almost certainly be a folder called Address Book in your ~/ Library/Application Support folder. This is the one that contains the fi

Re: Newbie Questions

I'm using PM with CodeTek Virtual Desktop (hate typing that out in full each time but I'll be damned if I'm going to say "I've got Codetek's VD!) and the two co-exist perfectly happily. I don't think that having PM in demo mode should make any difference in this regard. Maybe a report of the probl

Re: Bug?

Lane; According to my menu item (Edit > Find) the short code for Find in Address Book is Cmd-Opt-C, not Cmd-Shift-C, so maybe you're misinterpreting the 'fork' symbol which denotes Alt or Option (depending on your keyboard). Shift is generally denoted by an upward arrow. Perhaps this is where you

Re: powermail-discuss Digest Search Failures

Ira; Can't halp you I'm afraid, except to confirm that it DOES work for me (After hitting Cmd-Opt-C I searched your message separately for "foxtrot", "search", "eyeball" and "message" and it found all of them), so it might be a configuration issue specific to something in your setup. What that mi

Re: New User

KL; I guess that if you really want to cancel your purchase then nothing I say is going to dissuade you, but I'd advise hanging in there for a few more hours. CTM is a very small company and sometimes they can be a little bit slow off the blocks when it comes to responding to people because they

Re: What is "Recent Email"

As far as the RMW is concerned, 'recent' means a) anything received since the PM app was launched. I gets cleared out when PM quits or when you clear it manually using the two buttons at the bottom. It is not governed by elapsed time. Hope this helps; Rick -- G4/500 (DP) :: 768 MB RAM :: 10

Re: SpamSive and PM Filtering

I'm still trying to find a way to avoid Spam messages from showing up in the Recent Mail Window (RMW). I used to use the trick of moving the message into the trash and _then_ into its final destination folder, but this seems to no longer work. Here's my current set up: Filter 1: ALWAYS: run SpamS

Re: SpamSive and PM Filtering

If we could use labels as a filtering criteria, that would also perhaps solve your problem, Max, and perhaps my own as well. I use SpamSieve and I want a way to not be notified of spam messages -- ie. not appear in the Recent Mail Window (RMW) and not make the dock icon bounce. Before I used SpamS

Re: Give or take -1 message

I can verify that auto-forwarding a message caused the message count to go off track.Hope this helps; Rick -- G4/500 (DP) :: 768 MB RAM :: 10.2.6 :: PM 4.2 :: 3 pane mode -- Original message: Received from PowerMail info on 11/9/03 at 6:37 pm >If you any of you have fail-safe method fo

Re: Searching in headers

I don't think that you can search via headers directly, but a possible workaround occurs to me: Filters *can* recognise specific headers. So, create a filter that looks for the header field that you want to search for, and set it to assign a particular label to any message with that field. Run thi

Re: New Bug in 4.2

I just had a look at an HTML spam message that arrived today and I still have all the usual options from click-&-holding the Globe button (in my case these are 'View message in browser' and 'Show HTML', since I have HTML reading turned off by default in the preferences). Hope this helps; Rick --

Still on the wishlist

4.2 is a good update to an already very good application, and some of it's new features (specifically the enormously improved search function) have more-or-less dealt with several of my wants and needs. However, some of the things that people have been asking for for AGES (ie. as long as I've bee

Re: recent mail doesn't display new mail *again*

Sound like the new and improved search features will provide solutions for several issues. Hurrah! I look forward to using the final version of 4.2. Rick -- G4/500 (DP) :: 768 MB RAM :: 10.2.6 :: PM 4.1.3 :: 3 pane mode -- Original message: Received from PowerMail Engineering on 4/9/03

Re: recent mail doesn't display new mail *again*

Mikael; Yeah, the RMW clears whenever the app quits for whatever reason. I'd like to be able to mark messages in the RMW to be retained (and maybe have a preference to set the default behaviour for whether new messages are set to be retained or cleared at quit-time) but having a user-defined time

Re: recent mail doesn't display new mail *again*

Not a bad idea David -- not so much for the "seeing them in folders" part (a folder's contents is only visible if that folder is selected, after all, and I don't want to have to go through selecting each of my hundred- odd folders one by one), but for the dearch by Label thing; something that I wo

Re: recent mail doesn't display new mail *again*

This true, the recent mail window (RMW hereafter, since I'm a very lazy typist) is cleared when PM quits (whether that be intentionally or 'unexpectedly'). This subject is similar to a previous one much debated on this list, namely that of Flagging. Some people want the ability to Flag messages to

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