Thanks! I thought I was crazy and couldn't figure out why I was having this
problem.
Wayne
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
You are right! I had downloaded iPhoto Mailer Patcher ages ago which
allows iPhoto preferences to select any email application. I had totally
forgotten that I had installed it. Well, it doesn't work with the new
version of iPhoto, unfortunately. And it is a pain to work around it. If
anyone has
Somebody has already asked this. But have you tried logging in with another
email client. This would eliminate the issue of it being a PowerMail problem.
Wayne
-Original Message-
From: The Monster Team [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Aug 29, 2007 11:31 AM
To: PowerMail discussions
I am away for a few weeks, maybe more, and will not available by;
email;
And when you get back, we will have to teach you HOW to setup your out
of office auto replies!
Wayne
--
sans la Musique la Vie serait une Erreur
Without music, life would be a serious mistake.
- Frederich Nietzsche
i put a screenshot on http://www.monokultur.com/pm/problem.jpg
Sorry, but this shot doesn't help to understand the problem.
Could you please show it with filled-in (fictive) name and/or mail-address?
Anyway your Mail-Window looks strange.
I miss the column-names (in german=: Als [for To/CC/BCC]
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
You should send your crash report into CTMDev. They can help you decide what is
causing the problem.
Wayne
-Original Message-
From: T.L. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Jun 14, 2007 10:53 AM
To: PowerMail powermail-discuss@ctmdev.com
Subject: PM Quits Now
Away for a week, come back and
How do I embed a logo in my text signature?
Thanks,
Bill
You mean like a .gif or .jpg image? If so, you don't. That is not
supported by PowerMail, that would be a feature supported via HTML or
RTF mail, neither of which are supported (or supported to that extent).
Wayne
--
Music is
If Powermail will not present us with a print dialog box prior to
printing that causes additional problems:
I forget why that was the chosen option when using the print icon. However if
you use the keyboard shortcut of cmd-P, or FilePrint you have all of these
options. You can also use the
was there ANYTHING special about these 2 messages?
if not, the only thought I have on this is that maybe PM has a limit as
to how many BCC's it can take and you have gone past that limit and the
overflow is causing a bug?
quickest solution I could think of is to make groups which contain 1,000
It's not about that at all, it's really about giving PowerMail the
ability to cope with the fact that it's not uncommon that people ( Some
of these being folks that you have to deal with) send HTML-messages.
Thanks for the insight into the people I have to deal with. ;-)
I think there is
Wayne;
Thanks for the illumination. Can you then hazard a guess as to why my
Tagging script (well, not 'mine' but used by me) fails if filters
further down the filter list are set to move the attachment?
If PM waited for the script to finish its job, as you say, then the
later filters should not
After reviewing CTM's web site I can't find any reference to HTML at all.
My comments relate to not following Mac standards, and confusing
operation. They have nothing to do with as advertised, but with the
program I am using.
HTML mail is not a mac standard. In fact, it is NOT an email
do you think users would accept this behavior from any other
mainstream Mac program without complaining? What if Word could not print
RTF files correctly, since they are not Word format files?
Of course you picked the wrong file format for the wrong product. ;-)
RTF is of course a MS creation
I have been using PM for about 3 weeks and the paid version for about a
week. I have yet to discover the way to make PM my default mail client.
Every time I click on an email address, my computer opens Mail.
That's because the preference to change your email isn't where one would
expect. To
Internet Preference Pane? Where's mine go?
It doesn't exist. There was a huge discussion when I worked at Apple about
this. Basically it came down to the 'it's our OS and our application' ... I was
aware of some 3rd party internet panes though.
Wayne
(Yes, I could fix it with an AppleScript, but CTM can fix it better. :))
It's interesting because I started working on a script last night and found
that trying to use the content of the message got very messy pretty quickly.
However, using the source (which is HTML) of the message was much
I was looking at my mail setup here at work and had forgotten an important part
of my setup. When I was using Entourage, I used the standard Exchange settings.
When our Admin told me that they also supported IMAP, I tried to use PowerMail.
However, since so many of the emails in my company are
Greeting Card.exe
Happy New Year
OS X
???
How can you be infected with a worm which is an .exe-file on Mac OS?
That is impossible.
Sounds to me as if someone else (using Windows) is infected and the worm
uses your domainname to send mails to (sometimes non existing) mailboxes.
You beat me to
(2) What is the best way to deal with the relatively recent phenomenon
of GIF spam. You know the ones. The Subject and body are random text.
The attachment is a graphic containing the spam pitch. I haven't been
able to derive a common identifier for them in the headers, and they are
not easy to
I've tried find a way to manually delete attachments from outgoing
messages (they normal exist somewhere already) but had no luck despite
searching this list and Google. Any help would be welcome.
Leave them. All attachments are simply linked to the original and aren't
added to the database. For
you could achieve that with AppleScript, I guess.
Actually you would probably be best served by a combo of cron and AppleScript.
This is how I created a ton of automatic email messages that were sent from
Apple Support.
Wayne
I haven't used Sidewinder, but I use SpamX and it works great. If there is any
downside, reporting open relays, and worms to ISPs rarely seems to make a dent
in the amount of SPAM. Most of the SPAM today are worms that Windows folks are
running without knowing it. A recent EU study said that
Is there a way around this that I'm missing? Is there a way to set a
message to Sent without sending?
I couldn't find anything, but then I am a casual user of PowerMail.
This can be done, but only through an AppleScript AFAIK.
Wayne
On a related note, will the 2 gig limit be going away in a future
version? Alternately, will we be able to use several databases
simultaneously (i.e., let us split a 1.8 gig database into 3 or 4
smaller ones, but have them all open concurrently)?
Can I ask a serious question? How often do people
-- SNIP of all my other junk
end if
end repeat
end repeat
end tell
end try
Thanks to all that helped.
Justin Beek
On Oct 20, 2006, at 8:46 PM, Wayne Brissette wrote:
This one works
set CCList to {}
tell
Do you really plan to be subscribed to this list for as long as you
live?
Probably... Or at least until I stop using the product (unlikely in the near
future). :-)
At this point you're simply sounding like a whiney baby. Give Jerome a chance
to look into it. If you consider this list
Setup a new account (if you haven't already) for each email address. In most
cases, you'll have none of them checking for email, only one or two (your usage
will vary obviously). When you want to send from one of the secondary accounts,
just make sure that is the account listed in the pulldown
I can certainly whip something up like this, however there is a gotcha. All
mail would first have to be saved as a draft because filters don't run until
after an item is sent, so there isn't a way to perform a filter on the message
and there wouldn't be the proper headers before it is saved as
Since some time (PowerMail 5.0 maybe), outgoing filters are applied
before sending, so they can change the account, add a BCC recipient and
other useful things.
Just goes to show you how I've let my scripting with PM languish.
Thanks Jérôme!
Wayne
You should send the crash log to CTM. They will help you determine what the
problem is from the crash log.
Wayne
-Original Message-
From: Art Wheat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Aug 17, 2006 8:47 AM
To: powermail-discuss@ctmdev.com
Subject: PowerMail Crashes after moving to newer Mac
Hello:
I see there's a 'text signature' in the Applescript dictionary, so I
suppose you could create an outgoing filter on the 'To' field, which
would run an appropriate Applescript. But I can't help with the script,
sorry. (and I do mean 'can't', not won't :)
The problem as I remember it is that the
set targetApp to PowerMail
tell application System Events
set processExists to exists process targetApp
end tell
if processExists is true then
tell application PowerMail
ignoring application responses
quit
end ignoring
There might be a minor syntax error in your script.
I had George send it to me offline. It looks like all he needs to do is move
around some tell statements.
Wayne
I'd like to create an email message in another app that can be sent out
by PowerMail.
Does anyone have a sample script for this? I'm using SuperCard, but a
script for another app could probably be adapted.
Do you just need to shell to populate the email? I wrote several like
this at Apple but
Check your address book. If I remember correctly, this stuff is picked up via
the address book and not necessarily from the headers.
Wayne
Oh, think we can have both, don't you?
Rick
I tend to be more of a lurker these days due to time. But I think Matthias hit
this one on the head. There are a lot of areas that need attention in
PowerMail, more so than others. IMAP support has always been hit-and-miss, and
while I only use it
In order for PM to send an HTML message, you must attach a file named
'index.html' to a completely empty message body.
Sad part is, I forgot all about this feature and then Jerome reminded me that
this was my idea... ;-)
Wayne
So, the problem is now:
How do I automatically trash only certain attachments when there are multiple
attachments, leaving the non .vcf files unmolested?
A custom AppleScript has to be written.
Wayne
Be VERY careful with AppleScript Text Item Delimiters option. This is a system
wide setting. If your script bails out during the running of the script, and
the TID is not set correctly, it can adversely affect other scripts.
Because I change the TID so often I alway do this:
set
Wayne Brissette:
I'd also like to be able to export them and perhaps import others. Some
way of organizing them into groups would be very helpful, too.
I'll modify one of my AppleScripts I wrote which will allow you to import
or export signatures. I'll do this either tonight or tomorrow.
Wayne
I
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
true, but sometimes it's a convenience to print in HTML, receipts from
amazon or itineraries from expedia. And it's a bug no? I mean it's
SUPPOSED to be able to print HTML, right?
You're correct. It is suppose to work.
I guess I hate HTML mail so much that I simply hate
-Original Message-
From: Rene Merz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The (sometimes strange) behaviour of different mail clients (incl.
PM)
can be compared with this list:
http://www.tandb.com.au/email/clients/
Very interesting too.
The only problem with this particular site is that the
-Original Message-
From: Christian Roth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
An 'ü' would therefore be encoded like this:
ü = Unicode: 0xFC
= UTF-8: 0xC3 0xBC
= URL: %C3%BC
(At least this is what I am doing with URLs with hi-ASCII
characters in
my own product.)
This is getting more and
And I know, how I can handle this problem: Inside FileMaker I have to
resolve all the umlauts into two letters. It isn't smart, but it helps.
But this is what the standard tells you to do with the mail to as well.
Space should be encoded to %20, so this means that umlauts would be %dc
or %fc,
Well, I learned something today. It's not a FM bug, but nor is it a PowerMail
bug. It's a STANDARDS issue. Check out RFC 2368, it seems that you must encode
the body= part of the mailto: according to the RFC. My guess is that in the
Apple Message Frameworks they are handling this for you,
This is a problem with FileMaker. I remember that at Apple we had to write a
bunch of custom email headers for the email in order to have FileMaker do what
we needed with non US-ASCII characters. I'll dig through my old scripts and see
if I can dig up anything, but I only have access to the
, but.
Is there anyone (Wayne perhaps) who has this script available, or some
pointers?
Here is one I wrote this AM for you...
-- Begin AppleScript
(* Delete Duplicates
Written by: Wayne Brissette
No extensive testing was done, use at your own risk
*)
set AppleScript's text item
This will do what you want...
-- Begin AppleScript
tell application PowerMail
set MySig to the signature of text signature Sig1
(* You'll want to replace Sig1 with the NAME of your Signature *)
set MyMessages to current messages
repeat with i from 1 to count of
needs help
Wayne Brissette (27/9/05 2:44 pm) said:
Since the list doesn't archive things anywhere I'm not sure what you're
referring to.
http://pmdiscuss.ctmdev.com/
Jeremy
John Hay on 9/16/05 said
Apple's mail.app has a feature whereby when you select a message all the
other related threads get highlighted automatically, thus showing the
user some history. Does PowerMail do this and I'm just missing it?
No, it doesn't. There have been discussions about this
The idea I think is to do a reboot, thus the quit, then activate lines.
However, you might want to put a delay in it.
quit
delay 30
activate
This will delay the reboot 30 seconds.
Ben, the issue with PowerMail and version seems to be unique to some builds of
PowerMail. I've seen them put
Darn, you beat me to it. ;-)
I will offer this up though. I have found that using a combination of cron and
AppleScript tended to work better at automating tasks than just cron or AS
alone.
Wayne
-Original Message-
From: Ben Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jim Pistrang wrote at 2:29 PM
Of course there are ways round it. But since there is almost never a
good reason to quote a signature, then it would make sense only to quote
it if it has been deliberately selected.
The problem as I see it is there are too many delimiters for signatures.
The quasi-standard is double dash space
I'm having a problem that started recently, and I can't seem to find a
way to stop this error when PM first starts checking mail.
Unexpected error on mail.earthlink.net
Class - 'file', what=2, when=100, err=-43
I have found that if I do a search for something that it works correctly
after the
Help!
Suddenly I can't start PowerMail at all!! (v5.2b3)
When trying to start PowerMail absolutely nothing happens. If trying to
do it when pressing down the Alt + Command buttons it's the same =
nothing happens.
Max:
Open up the console (hidden in the Utilities folder of the Applications
I'm using an anti-spam app that, because it doesn't support PowerMail
(yet!), requires me to save spam email messages in plain text with RFC822
headers, for processing.
I've discovered something weird: PowerMail saves some HTML messages fine
as plain text, while others seem to retain their HTML
My PowerMail Files are in user/Mail/PowerMail Files not in user/
documents. Yours not?
Mine are on a totally different hard drive. It's all how you set it up.
Wayn
--
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Hi all,
Thanks for the feedback to my earlier posts; as it happens, I received
my registration code pretty much as I hit send on the other mail -
typical! ;-)
I've been playing around with PM, tweaking it to suit my needs, etc,
and while it has been fun for one day, I have a feeling that I'm
Hmm, it doesn't get in the way but needs more than twice the number of
characters for exactly the same information (140 vs. 66) so with this
message you need double bandwith for the same communication...
First off, many of you long time PM users know that I am no fan of HTML
mail. However
computer artwork by subhash (29/12/04 6:00 pm) said:
grouping messages belonging to each other closer
together? Sounds to me that makes PM *easier* to use.
Not for me. I have no use for this. So it would be an unnecessary feature
*for me* and only causing some bytes more to load when PM starts.
PowerMail Engineering wrote on Wed 22 Dec 2004 at 11:41 +0100
You can do this with an AppleScript:
Thank you Jérôme, I will try this later.
One more thing, if I want to change the Subject line in the reply I
send - what would the line in the AppleScript for that be?
Add this inside the repeat
Wayne Brissette wrote:
How I wish. All my other filters are after the SpamSieve filters. And yes
Andy it is set for incoming and always. Oh well. Maybe I'll figure it out.
If the Spam: evaluate filter is the first one, with an always
condition, and evaluate spam rating as single action
t sounds like one of your earlier filters is acting as a catch-all,
preventing all subsequent filters from ever getting to it. Try moving
How I wish. All my other filters are after the SpamSieve filters. And yes
Andy it is set for incoming and always. Oh well. Maybe I'll figure it out.
Wayne
This RFC dates from 2001 - which is a centenary in IT-time!
As it is written, it's a more conservative recommendation.
But in the meantime all of (serious) mail programs are able to handle it.
A mail app can do as it wants, but the mail relays will do as they please
as well. This is a case of
Hello,
We are making a switch to Quickbooks Pro 2005 and one of the features is
the ability to email a customer an invoice/statement/etc... However, when
I try to do this Quickbooks reports This email application is not
supported with this version of QuickBooks.
Any fixes to make this work?
Wayne Brissette wrote:
t seems that some type of
indexing using perl is happening. I can't figure out if PM or spamsieve
is doing this, but until I launch PM, I can watch the processes all day
long and don't see perl in the list. Once PM starts running, perl pops up
every now and again.
I don't
I have noticed a very interesting thing recently. I suppose it always
happened, but recently started annoying me. It seems that some type of
indexing using perl is happening. I can't figure out if PM or spamsieve
is doing this, but until I launch PM, I can watch the processes all day
long and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (20/9/04 6:50 pm) said:
You might even consider using PostFix if you're on Mac OS X. While very
crude in terms of UI (there isn't one really), it is very powerful and
well worth looking into.
Also: MailMan on OS X. This is a mailing list manager (PostFix is an SMTP
server).
reject HTML mail on grounds of it being potentially harmful spam. My
question, therefore, (you knew I'd get around to it eventually, right?)
is this: Does Rich Text email suffer from the same fate. If I were to
send out promotional email with bold headings, would there be the same
chance of it
Wondering what the possibilities are of having a script/filter work
together. There are specific tagged (by label/priority) emails that I
would love to have go directly to my printer so employees can process the
information/order without the necessity for me to be there and physically
send to the
Ben Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 stated:
HTML/XML mail or similar will sooner or later supersede the pure text
messages of today, no matter what PM users think about it.
Not without one helluva fight, it won't... (and we PM users are not
exclusive with this opinion)
Ben
Mikael Byström [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 stated:
This is not useful with international umlauts.
Mikael:
The only way we have been able (we being my soon to be former employer)
to make this work 100% of the time is by using UTF-8. Of course as
Hiroaki will point out, UTF-8 is
. (I assume you remain a PM user though, so I won't say goodbye;-)
Yes, you're not getting rid of me that easily. ;-)
Mainly at this point I want some time off, to do the things that matter
most to me at the moment... spend some quality time with my wife and
daughter, spend a couple of weeks
One another question is that does AppleScript take Regex?
It doesn't. Regular expressions (Regex) are only useful with languages or
applications like BBedit which included them. One way to use regular
expressions within AppleScript is to use the command line and something
like awk or sed which
But then, no other user is able to use them or I'm I wrong? That was my
point to put them where they are.
I haven't tried this, but you might be able to make aliases for each
item. Leave the master copy in your folder, then you wouldn't have to
worry about them again when you upgraded PowerMail
Sounds a little bit sadly, doesn't it?
Yes and no. I'm sad only because I've had the pleasure of working with a
fine group of people for close to 10 years. However, leaving the company
is another story. Everything changes and while I disagree with the
reasons for this particular change, it's
Some of you probably have already noticed this, but in the latest version
of the AppleScript menu in PowerMail there is now an item that allows you
to Go to the AppleScript Archive page. Some people on this already also
know that I currently work for Apple Computer. My position at Apple is
moving
Anything I can do to reduce their chances?
James
OS X.2.8
Powerbook G3
For starters, if possible, upgrade to Panther. There were so many fixes
and enhancements in Panther it's not funny. I run Panther on a G3
PowerBook and while it isn't going to break any world records, it is
beefy enough
On 21/06/2004 at 12:11 PM I saw PowerMail Engineering type:
Christian Roth wrote:
it would be a TREMENDOUS feature if the options within a filter
could be individually grouped in a boolean fashion
And for a IMO nice graphical interface solution to complex boolean
expressions, see ChronoSync's
Tom Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thursday, June 17, 2004 stated:
I sometimes get subjects scrunched together on my QS DP 800 with the
latest versions on OS X and PM. I also see this sometimes when I'm
adding more addresses to a message. It usually doesn't cause a problem.
You can see what I mean
Max Gossell [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 17 May 2004 stated:
Is there a way to add the sender's local time to the Simple Header? If
not, it would be nice to have it put on the to-do list.
Max:
You can add this via an AppleScript for now. Not the best solution in the
world, but it does work and if you
Tue, May 4, 2004 10:39 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bob Salsburg said:
In b18, the message toolbar is not present unless I toggle it. Can
someone point me to a Pref for this.
This now works fine for me in b26. Thanks!!
Yes, I concur it works again for me as well.
Wayne
---
Get your facts first, and
There was another one for OS X only I used, can't remember the name of
right now; had a dancing girl icon. Don't know if it is still available.
It was Halime which is no longer being developed although the source code
has been made available.
One other one is Hogwasher. It's primarily a
Jean de Crombrugghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10 May 2004 stated:
Is it possible to have threads on PowerMail ? I don't find that ...
It's not currently part of Powermail. However it has been requested by
several people.
Wayne
--
Nature can survive without man--in fact, that may be its
Ben Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05 May 2004 stated:
On 05 5 2004 at 10:10 am -0400, Lane Roathe wrote:
that being adding an
option to turn off double-clicking of URL's to launch them... this one is
critical to me).
I have to agree, this behaviour has always been a right pain in the ass.
-ben
Robert Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 03 May 2004 stated:
I am sure this has been answered on this list, but I missed it. I have a
valid PowerMail 4.x license and would like to try PowerMail 5.0 beta, but
my mail folder far exceeds the demo's limits.
Earlier today I went to the PowerMail site and
Marlyse Comte [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 29 April 2004 stated:
thanks!
Andy Fragen helped me modify my original script which ended in a working
solution. Looking now on the solution you came up with, I think it
interesting to see how different AS approaches can be!
It's programming in general. As
Rick Lecoat [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 4/27/04 at 17:12 stated:
Yes, I could use Cron to send a message that would activate an
applescript via a filter to delete the appropriate messages, but that
seems a VERY long way around the houses -- especially to someone who has
zero knowledge of Cron or
Derry Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 27 April 2004 stated:
Bugger is right. It'd be nice to have something like run this filer once
a day at 5.00pm or something similar
So here is a workaround:
1) setup a cron job that would create a mail that would fire off the
filter. You get to setup the
harryo [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 22 April 2004 stated:
Excuse me is this now a french mailing list?
It's only English by default. Since PowerMail is used worldwide I would
hope we would show a bit more tolerance when these posts occasionally appear.
Wayne
--
No people is wholly civilized where a
Max Gossell [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 4/22/04 at 6:58 stated:
Spam blockers are unnecessary.
Is this really the TRUTH?
Using his method, it's not that they are unnecessary, he just doesn't
call them that. He is the spam blocker in his case. EarthLink has been
very good with SPAM recently, so I
John Snippe [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 19 April 2004 stated:
Will conversion of db's affect possible future post-beta use in 4.2?
What do you mean? Can you go back to 4.2 after 5 upgrades the database?
Wayne
--
Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
- Van Morrison
Live DAT Music Page:
A-NO-NE Music [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 12 April 2004 stated:
I don't know what the .b64 mail is.
Base64 MIME encoding?
Yes. If you have a tool that will decode base64 files, you could use it
to decode that particular file. One such tool I used for years was
UUencode. There are a bunch of others
New File Available:
Name: Copy e-mail (headers at top)
Author: Alan Harper
Description:
The following script copies a PowerMail email to the clipboard with
headers at the top in a format that Spamcop can parse (see http://
www.spamcop.net/). I believe that the clipboard reflects the canonical
Stephane Terreaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wednesday, March 31,
2004 stated:
It would be great if the messages in the trash would disappear by
themselves after a delay setup in the preferences. For example, I may
decide the messages to stay in the trash for 1 week or 1 month or whatever.
That is on
computer artwork by subhash [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tuesday, March 30, 2004
stated:
[Wayne Brissette [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 30.3.2004 um 14:44 Uhr:]
In AppleScript you can simply use RETURN.
Ah, sure, I forgot!
2) How to set the account from which being sent?
Tell application PowerMail
Jim Pistrang [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tuesday, March 30, 2004 stated:
Yes this is a preference. Check out General: Shortcuts: Select next
message after moving to trash.
Goes to show that even old dogs can learn new tricks! ;-)
Wayne
--
Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
- Van
Bob Salsburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tuesday, March 30, 2004 stated:
Now, I am new to PowerMail and haven't gotten all the nuiances yet, so if
this is a user pref, let me know.
It's not. it is just how PowerMail works. I have no real suggestions on
how to fix this either.
Wayne
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