I have had a very perplexing problem on a PowerMail install that has
been there for years, although the user has worked around it, all this
time. Now it needs to be gone.
It used to be that when PM started to download mail (most likely
triggered by attachments), it would auto-open Adobe
This sounds more like an AppleScript issue. Do you have any filters that use
AppleScripts? If so, does one look for Illustrator? That would be my first
guess. Look and see what filters are running. Turn them all off as a test and
slowly add them back. See which one causes the problem, then go
Hi Anthony,
I just set this user up on a new Mac, and it is embarrassing to see a
Choose Application dialog pop up 20 or 30 times in a row while
PowerMail fetches mail. I had assumed that this was a file-mapping bug
(if that's the word for it) in some System file, since nowhere in PM can
I find
This sounds more like an AppleScript issue. Do you have any filters that
use AppleScripts? If so, does one look for Illustrator? That would be my
first guess. Look and see what filters are running. Turn them all off as
a test and slowly add them back. See which one causes the problem, then
go from
Could it be a Mail Filter that is triggering this?
Since it seems that the problem comes and goes with the file Setup
Database, you might be right, but all of the mail filters just file
messages in various incoming folders, with the exception of SpanSieve's
filters, and I could see nothing in
On Jun 18, 2007, at 1:51 PM, Anthony Sanna wrote:
Question, shouldn't SS open with PM? I thought that after the first
time you manually opened SS with PM that it would automatically do it
from then on. This new install doesn't, it seems.
SpamSieve should open when there are new messages to
SpamSieve should open when there are new messages to filter. I
suppose it's possible that the AppleScript is damaged so that it's
trying to tell Illustrator to filter spam instead of SpamSieve. If
that's the case, installing a fresh copy of the PowerMail application
and deleting the
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