Re(2): Powermail support (Was: Re: Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread)

2007-10-22 Thread Winston Weinmann
As an example providing information on bugs, see Mike Bombich's forum page for Carbon Copy Cloner: http://forums.bombich.com/viewforum.php? f=12sid=f1fc006f711bb1c03a2502b875bd32ff Another program I use, PDFPen, has several workarounds listed in its FAQs for specific problems. I have seen

Re(2): Powermail support (Was: Re: Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread)

2007-10-21 Thread Winston Weinmann
That is a great idea, and one CTM should have both on its site and in a Read Me with the installer. - Winston Mikael Byström wrote: I'd prefer if we had a bug list or something and could point to that.

Re(2): Powermail support (Was: Re: Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread)

2007-10-21 Thread Winston Weinmann
Mikael Byström wrote: We on this list are not employed by you, which seems to be the common feature for most of the situations you list where you have found this approach productive. The point is not about my trying to influence the discussion list, but about trying to influence CTM. CTM is

Re: Powermail support (Was: Re: Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread)

2007-10-21 Thread Mikael Byström
Winston Weinmann suggested: That is a great idea, and one CTM should have both on its site and in a Read Me with the installer. In a Readme? What other products put their buglists there? Isn't an URL to some kind of online source sufficient? After all buglists are not primarily around to warn

Re: Powermail support (Was: Re: Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread)

2007-10-21 Thread Mikael Byström
Winston Weinmann suggested: That is a great idea, and one CTM should have both on its site and in a Read Me with the installer. In a Readme? What other products put their buglists there? Isn't an URL sufficient? Mikael Tech facts: PM 5.5.3 Swedish | OS X 10.4.8 | Powerbook G4/400 Mhz | 1GB RAM

Re: Powermail support (Was: Re: Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread)

2007-10-20 Thread Mikael Byström
Winston Weinmann asked please support CTM by patiently ask for requests Have I been impatient? How do you define patience? Patience should be adopted to the company in question. CTM could be snappier in the their development and sometimes bugfixing, but I'd rather they keep PM stable and

Re: Powermail support (Was: Re: Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread)

2007-10-20 Thread Mikael Byström
Wayne Brissette said it like this: That's where CTM gets to decide what they feel the community needs and where they want to spend their efforts. If you had paid any attention at all, which is obvious you haven't, you would have discovered that I've been repeating that CTM decides over and over

Re(2): Powermail support (Was: Re: Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread)

2007-10-17 Thread Winston Weinmann
Mikael - I am not sure I fully understand your comments. If I did not support CTM I would not bother to give an opinion on features. I'd just go elsewhere. In particular, I have focussed on behavior which in any other software would be considered beta level. or worse. Having great features does

Re: Powermail support (Was: Re: Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread)

2007-10-16 Thread Mikael Byström
Matthias Schmidt suggested: Understand Powermail is a textmailer, so if you want to have html use something else. Matthias, why do you have to bring up that old nonsense again? Powermail displays HTML messages and it's natural to expect that it should print such messages fine, even if third

Re: Powermail support (Was: Re: Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread)

2007-10-16 Thread Wayne Brissette
Mikael: I think the thing to understand is that when PowerMail was developed it was developed as something that was 100% RFC compatible. Currently there are some things that are under discussion, by other companies and not full panels on HTML email. Thus, I would argue that there isn't

Re: Powermail support (Was: Re: Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread)

2007-09-23 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Steve Abrahamson / 07.9.22 / 7:01 PM wrote: Which, I think, comes back to my issue of what is PowerMail? Is it a Mercedes? Or a nice Pontiac? Y'know, my 1995 E320 Wagon, which is now 170,000+ miles and still kicking hard, even doesn't have a cup holder and glove box. My ex-1990 Volvo even had

Re: Powermail support (Was: Re: Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread)

2007-09-22 Thread Steve Abrahamson
On 9/21/07 at 11:04 PM, Winston Weinmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: This does not mean PowerMail does not rock in lots of other areas. But would you expect a Mercedes 500 SL to have steel wheels or lack ABS? Which, I think, comes back to my issue of what is PowerMail? Is it a Mercedes? Or a nice

Powermail support (Was: Re: Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread)

2007-09-21 Thread Bernd Fröhlich
Winston Weinmann schrieb: While I love PowerMail, it has some bugs in it that are like beta level software. CTM should be embarrassed, and probably is. That pretty much confirms my suspicion. I was thinking about using PowerMail but wanted to see how it is supported first, so I subscribed to

Re: Powermail support (Was: Re: Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread)

2007-09-21 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Bernd, Am/On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:07:57 +0200 schrieb/wrote Bernd Fröhlich: Winston Weinmann schrieb: While I love PowerMail, it has some bugs in it that are like beta level software. CTM should be embarrassed, and probably is. That pretty much confirms my suspicion. I was thinking about

Re(2): Powermail support (Was: Re: Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread)

2007-09-21 Thread Winston Weinmann
Matthias - With all due respect, I think it is more accurate to say that the flaws which PowerMail has (such as not being able to print HTML mail) do not bother /you/. That does not mean PowerMail does not have flaws, nor does it excuse CTM for not acknowledging or addressing those flaws if they

Re: Powermail support (Was: Re: Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread)

2007-09-21 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Winston, you are wining here around on the list since you subscribed. Understand Powermail is a textmailer, so if you want to have html use something else. Powermail is not a 1200$ product, it is shareware and in this price-range. Recently I wrote a E-Mail implementation for a database and I

Re(2): Powermail support (Was: Re: Exporting from PowerMail - all mail is Unread)

2007-09-21 Thread Winston Weinmann
Matthias - I think you have missed my point. I also think you have overlooked at least an occasional attempt to be helpful. As to html, I am not asking for anything new. I am asking for an existing feature to work as expected (printing). How many other Mac programs do you know of which can't