Re: Importing from Entourage 2004?

2008-06-12 Thread Jefferis Peterson
Any suggestions? No reply means no solutions? what are the best replacements for Entourage's NewsGroup reader? I like being able to have newsgroup access inside my mail program. But PM doesn't offer that... I tried using the Emailchemy converter program recommended on CTV for my

Re: Review of Power Mail in new MacWorld magazine

2008-06-12 Thread Jeremy Hughes
Dave N (10/6/08, 23:22) said: Review of PowerMail in new July 2008 MacWorld magazine And PowerMail didn't do well. It got only 2.5 Mice out of 5 My main problem with PowerMail is that it uses a monolithic database format that can't be larger than 2 GB. Currently, I have to compact the database

Re: Importing from Entourage 2004?

2008-06-12 Thread Graham B
I like Vienna http://www.vienna-rss.org/vienna2.php Straightforward, open source, and easy to use. Graham Any suggestions? No reply means no solutions? what are the best replacements for Entourage's NewsGroup reader? I like being able to have newsgroup access inside my mail

Re: Importing from Entourage 2004?

2008-06-12 Thread Barbara Needham
Jefferis Peterson on 6/12/08 said Any suggestions? No reply means no solutions? what are the best replacements for Entourage's NewsGroup reader? I like being able to have newsgroup access inside my mail program. But PM doesn't offer that... I tried using the Emailchemy converter

Re: Review of Power Mail in new MacWorld magazine

2008-06-12 Thread Peter Baral
I can second Jeremy's opinion. The monolithic database together with the 2 GB limit made me switch to Apple Mail about a year ago. Better rich-text integration and support for new OS technologies and better IMAP support have been the other reasons. Apple Mail's support for iCal event

Re: Review of Power Mail

2008-06-12 Thread Bill Lane
Sorry to say, I also switched from PowerMail to Thunderbird last year, because of the lack of support in PowerMail for imap (slow and crash-prone) and html (extra keystrokes to read an ever-increasing amount of mail). Thunderbird also seems to respond more promptly to Applescript shortcuts,

Re: Review of Power Mail

2008-06-12 Thread Tim Hodgson
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 2:32 pm -0400, Bill Lane wrote: Sorry to say, I also switched from PowerMail to Thunderbird last year, I don't think I've come across a mailing list before where so many of its members are no longer using the app under discussion. Should CTM be disheartened by the loss

Re: Review of Power Mail

2008-06-12 Thread Bill Lane
My wife still uses PowerMail, which is my reasonable excuse. But I must confess, I'm also fascinated by the fierce loyalty of the listmembers, and curious to see whether this developer can turn things around... BILL. Tim Hodgson wrote: I don't think I've come across a mailing list before

Re: Review of Power Mail

2008-06-12 Thread Jim Pistrang
Hi Tim, I don't think I've come across a mailing list before where so many of its members are no longer using the app under discussion. Should CTM be disheartened by the loss of users or encouraged by their lingering interest? :-) I would think ( hope) encouraged. I think that many of the

Re: Review of Power Mail in new MacWorld magazine

2008-06-12 Thread Chris
On 12/6/08 Peter Baral wrote: ..made me switch to Apple Mail about a year ago. Out of curiosity, how did you get your PM mail into Apple Mail? cheers, Chris

Re(2): Review of Power Mail in new MacWorld magazine

2008-06-12 Thread Raphaël PAREJO
I Hope the same, many features of PowerMail seems now obsolete, except for the exceptional robust database. -- Raphaël Parejo An old user... I can second Jeremy's opinion. The monolithic database together with the 2 GB limit made me switch to Apple Mail about a year ago. Better rich-text

Re: Review of Power Mail in new MacWorld magazine

2008-06-12 Thread Peter Baral
That's what I did (IIRC): - drag-and-drop of all mail folders to the Mac desktop (format: Mac OS X Mail). This results in mbox files on the desktop - imported into Mail using Mail's Import command. Peter Am 12.06.2008 um 17:12 schrieb Chris: On 12/6/08 Peter Baral wrote: ..made

Re: Review of Power Mail

2008-06-12 Thread Cotty
Well if it's any consolation, I am extremely happy with Powermail - been using it for years (Claris Emailer before that) and I find it is stable, does exactly what I need from an email application, without any distractions and fancy footwork, and the spam filter is second to none. Rock on

Re: Review of Power Mail

2008-06-12 Thread Don Zahniser
On Jun 12, 2008, at 9:52 AM, Tim Hodgson wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 2:32 pm -0400, Bill Lane wrote: Sorry to say, I also switched from PowerMail to Thunderbird last year, I don't think I've come across a mailing list before where so many of its members are no longer using the app

Re: Review of Power Mail in new MacWorld magazine

2008-06-12 Thread Chris
On 12/6/08 Peter Baral wrote: - drag-and-drop of all mail folders to the Mac desktop (format: Mac OS X Mail). This results in mbox files on the desktop. Thanks Peter, I didn't realise that you could create mbox files that way. Chris Am 12.06.2008 um 17:12 schrieb Chris: On 12/6/08

Re: Review of Power Mail

2008-06-12 Thread Dave N
Well the Claris Emailer Talk list is/was like that too! :-) What does that mean?! Dave N in reply to ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Tim Hodgson's message of 6:52 AM, 6/12/08 I don't think I've come across a mailing list before where so many of its members are no longer using the app under discussion.

Re: Review of Power Mail

2008-06-12 Thread Michael Lewis
Bill Lane sez: Sorry to say, I also switched from PowerMail to Thunderbird last year, because of the lack of support in PowerMail for imap (slow and crash-prone) and html (extra keystrokes to read an ever-increasing amount of mail). Oddly enough major selling points to me for Powermail were

Re: Review of Power Mail

2008-06-12 Thread Michael Lewis
Dave N sez: What does that mean?! It means that no email client can be all things to all people. There will always be some things a client won't do for some people, and all those things might be different, and trying to implement them all could drive a developer out of business or insane or

powermail-discuss Digest #2839 - 06/12/08

2008-06-12 Thread PowerMail discussions
powermail-discuss Digest #2839 - Thursday, June 12, 2008 Re: Review of Power Mail in new MacWorld magazine by Ira Lansing [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: Review of Power Mail in new MacWorld magazine by Marlyse Comte [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: Review of Power Mail in new MacWorld

Re: Review of Power Mail in new MacWorld magazine

2008-06-12 Thread Charles Watts-Jones
Jeremy Hughes said: another problem with the monolithic file format is that incremental backups (Retrospect, Time Machine, whatever) have to back up the entire database each time it changes. I'm not sure that this is always so. I've been using QRecall http:// www.qrecall.com/ for some time

What does it mean

2008-06-12 Thread Ira Lansing
Well the Claris Emailer Talk list is/was like that too! :-) What does that mean?! Dave N It also means that the last e-mail client used by many BEFORE PowerMail was Claris E-mailer. There are a lot of interface similarities and it was an easy transition. It also means there is fierce product

Re: Review of Power Mail

2008-06-12 Thread cheshirekat
On Thu, Jun 12, 200812:48 PM, the following words from Don Zahniser [EMAIL PROTECTED], emerged from a plethora of SPAM ... On Jun 12, 2008, at 9:52 AM, Tim Hodgson wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 2:32 pm -0400, Bill Lane wrote: Sorry to say, I also switched from PowerMail to Thunderbird last

Re: Review of Power Mail

2008-06-12 Thread barbarajfn
I have dozens of folders, so there's really no need for flags and such. The folder name lets me know what the status is. You can do this by adding characters or words to the beginning or end of the folder's name. Simple words like IP for in progress. When the status changes, I move it to the same