PowerMail version 6.1 | CTM

PowerMail 6 new features

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:39:44 +0100

After over 4 years of offering free feature upgrades to PowerMail 5 users, including native Intel compatibility, CTM introduces PowerMail version 6, an evolutionary upgrade encompassing over 50 enhancements including long-awaited user requests.

Designed to fully embrace Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and integrate well with iPhone, Time Machine, Spotlight, Apple Mail import/export and other modern technologies, PowerMail also delivers the latest in 3rd-party services integration, from Growl notification to Kagi instant purchasing, from Smart Reports to auto-updating application services. Click any topic here to start your navigation tour of PowerMail 6 enhancements large and small.

PowerMail 6 mail browser

3-pane vertical mail browser option

FoxTrot Search engine within PowerMail

Casual-use styled-text (HTML mail)

QuickLook display of text, graphic and multimedia attachments

Display mail in Finder & FoxTrot Pro without PowerMail launched

Find and view message threads

Synchronize addresses with MobileMe - coexist with iPhone Mail

Filter debugger

Last/next update options

Import from Apple Mail & Thunderbird

Import messages - merge folders

Export to Apple Mail & Thunderbird

Archive and Cleanup Assistant

Finder-like lists option

Send Waiting messages from Dock

User-selectable indexing of HTML messages

Automatic version check and self-update

Growl notifications option

Lightweight HTML message header

PowerMail FAQ

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:35:12 +0100

Updating database from earlier version

Before moving to PowerMail 6, we recommend you make a backup of your existing PowerMail files folder, preferably on an off-line volume or in a compressed archive.

Upon first launch, PowerMail 6 will offer to create a new database or convert your existing data. The process will require enough disk space to contain another copy of your PowerMail files, and will compact your data before first usage.

If you ever wish to go back to PowerMail 5, simply restore the messages archived as above.

How can I import address book data from Claris Emailer version 2 into PowerMail

PowerMail can import address book files exported as text from within Emailer 2. You can even drag a selection of Emailer entries and drop them on the PowerMail address book window directly !

What is the ”smart encoding” option for attachments

”Smart encoding” uses system settings (editable in the MisFox control panel supplied on the disk images advenced tab, or in Internet Explorer’s ”Receiving files/file helpers” preference pane) to determine if a file can be encoded using Base64 (if it does not contain essential information in the resource fork), or if it should be encoded using AppleDouble.

Note that a .jpg file containing an icon and a preview in the resource fork will be sent in Base64 (so it will loose it’s icon and preview) when using ”smart encoding”, because it’s resource fork is not considered as essential information for a jpeg file. If you want to send a .jpg file with it’s icon and preview to mac users, but you want that windows users can also decode it, use AppleDouble (however, windows users will receive an additional unusable file that contain the resource fork).

I can’t select and copy text from a message

You can’t select text from an HTML message in PowerMail in the same way as a text-only message. To select text in an HTML message, double-click at the beginning of your selection, and shift-click at the end to create a hilighted selection.

Alternatively, you may can click on the globe button, which appears at the bottom of HTML messages, to display them in your web browser, where you will be able to select and copy text. You can also deactivate HTML display from the preference, to display the text only version of the message.

I get an indexing error when starting or quitting PowerMail

If you get a ”can’t open the index file” error when starting PowerMail, you need to rebuild the search index from the file / database menu. Note that if you try to quit PowerMail without rebuilding the index, and you have set PowerMail to empty the trash folder before quitting, this situation will prevent you from quitting PowerMail.

One of my folders is empty, or some messages are missing

Make sure the ”view all” item, in the view menu, is checked. The status of the ”view unread” menu is saved for each individual folder. In some very rare circumstances, however, some messages can disappear… in this case, launch PowerMail while pressing the command and option keys, and check the ”rebuild the sort indices” checkbox.

Why does PowerMail refuse to send some attachments using Base64 encoding

If a file type is known to contain essential data in the resource fork, it will be corrupted if you send it using base64 or uuencode attachment encoding. You can edit which file types or extensions are considered as ”macintosh files” using MisFox or Internet Explorer’s file helper preference pane.

Where do I find additional spell checkers for use with PowerMail

PowerMail 2.4 used to ship with its own, licensed spell checker… users had then pressed us to implement an open mechanism for dealing with the approach that they select rather than the one we force unto them. As a result, there are now many spell checkers that PowerMail is compatible with.

Where can I find out more about attachment encoding formats ?

MacUser wrote about encoding attachments in their February 1997 issue.

Manual

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:52:48 +0100

What people say about PowerMail

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:37:37 +0200

Beth Livingston, self-described "PowerMail fanatic since 1999", Durham, NC, USA

Here is how well PowerMail works, and how much I love it:

I just searched my old email files (I am a hopeless email packrat!) and in less than 2 seconds, PowerMail's search feature found the email I wrote on Jan. 8, 1999, thanking my friend who had recommen-ded PowerMail for my Mac at that time.

I recently re-indexed my entire PowerMail database and yes, I have over 60,000 emails. I would have never known it - it just cruises along effortlessly!

So I can tell you I've used it for over 10 years; it is a simple, elegant program that has made every necessary upgrade over the years in a nearly transparent, flawless form. It runs cleanly, never hogs resources, and does exactly what I tell it to. And when I recently had a question, I got nearly instant responses from the online help contact. A happy shock, in contrast to most other tech support out there (or lack thereof).

The only problem I have ever had with it is that when my ISP has a problem, they've never heard of PowerMail, so they like to try to blame it for THEIR problems. So could you folks PLEASE boost your profile and get the name recognition and respect you absolutely deserve? In fact, please could you just take over the world?

Continue reading Beth Livingston, self-described "PowerMail fanatic since 1999", Durham, NC, USA

Walter Tsujiyama, San Francisco USA :

"PowerMail is noticeably better than Outlook Express 5; it's more Mac-like, faster, and has hundreds of elegant, near-invisible details that create a great user interface. Definitely worth many times the €49." - Walter Tsujiyama - SF

Versiontracker.com user comment [mfmm] :

"Enormously superior to Spotlight; it allows you to search file content for phrases, to use and/or searching and to search by wildcard. You can change the search string in mid-search and it responds instantly, without Spotlight's long delays. Easily reveals any found result in its context. Much more efficient than Spotlight in narrowing down search results to highlight just the ones you want.

Where Spotlight has an advantage is in automatically indexing new files as you create them. With Foxtrot you either schedule the indexing to run at a set time or do it manually. Takes about 20 mins to run through 145,000 indexed files on my 933 iBook, which is not bad. Absolutely first class product."

Janie Angus, Nevada USA

FABULOUS PRODUCT ! Wonderful ! A real Spotlight Killer ! I'm now able to locate content in documents that I KNEW was there but Spotlight couldn't find.

Until now using Unix product "Locate" to take up the slack, but FoxTrot Personal Search is far more efficient and displays a preview of the file when you hiighlight it."

Janie Angus, Nevada USA

www.macgeneration.com :

"En débarquant sur mon disque dur, PowerMail a signé l'arrêt de mort d'Outlook."