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PowerMail™ version 5.6.4 for Intel™ and PowerPC™-based Macs

Now in its 12th year of continuous evolution, PowerMail delivers a unique blend of search features and e-mail management in a robust POP3 and lightweight IMAP4 mail client.

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Overview

With 63% of all messaging traffic now identified as spam (source: BrightMail 3/2004), how can dealing with e-mail become pleasurable again ?

Since the announcement of PowerMail 1.0 in August 1995, bringing a distinctive experience to Macintosh users has been our primary focus.

With the release of PowerMail 5, defeating spam takes center stage:

Rediscover an advertisement- free In Tray

With enhanced filtering mechanisms, a Spam filter assistant and intimate integration of SpamSieve for those who need it, you're about to rediscover e-mail as uncluttered as it used to be.

New conditions and actions allow finer filtering of mailing-list traffic and help you organize your centers of interest in an ordery fashion; and while AppleScripts could previously be triggered by filters, scripts can now also extend the set of built-in filter conditions as well.

FoxTrot™ search makes archiving a dance

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Benchmarking has shown PowerMail to search up to 7 times faster as Apple's Mail.app, thanks to our exclusive FoxTrot™ engine.

Indexing itself typically takes less that 1/20th of a second per received message, and mail databases of up to 2048 megabytes can instantly and precisely mined using a variety of search criteriae.

Consistent with PowerMail's long-standing pedigree

While major upgrades of intensely-used software sometimes place a product's identity at risk, PowerMail 5 carefully balances innovation with continuity, preserving its original trademark of speed and reliability.
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What's new in version 5.6.3
What's new in PowerMail 5.6.4: (change list from 5.6.2)

+ Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9

+ Low-level rebuild was broken after the 5.6.2 porting to XCode 3.0 - fixed

+ Restored the command-key shortcut for hiding the application

What was new in PowerMail 5.6.2: (change list from 5.6.1)

+ Successful porting to XCode 3.0 - while this should be a transparent change, it has three implications for PowerMail users:
    •    Improves our ability to keep up with system changes, especially on Mac OS X 10.5.x (Leopard) and later
    •    Benefits from enhancements in code optimization and acceleration provided by Apple
    •    Produces a significantly smaller binary than 5.6.1

+ Fixed a hang that previously could occur when downloading certain malformed (or should we say malevolently-formed) spam messages, such as have appeared recently
  
+ New version of SpamSieve included in disk image


What was new in PowerMail 5.6.1: (from 5.5.3)

New search features and performance increase (please see full release notes on disk image for syntax examples)

+ Occasional searches on large databases are now much faster, as the index optimization phase is now performed transparently

+ No longer will you see a "Optimizing index" modal dialog at the beginning of a search !

+ Searching using "matches the search pattern" option now supports excluded words inside quoted strings

+ Searching using "matches the search pattern" option now supports exclusion of exact phrases

+ Searching using "matches the search pattern" or "includes at least one of the words" options now allows to combine multiple quoted strings (in addition to multiple simple words) with an OR operator (using the vertical bar | in case of "matches the search pattern")

+ You may now specify words to be found within a given proximity range

+ You can now search exact strings within a given proximity range   

Leopard compatibility

+ On Mac OS X 10.5, scheduled connections could fail if the account's password was saved in the keychain

Fixes and enhancements

+ [5.6.1] Incidental to the above issue, there may have been a crash once after modifying an account's password.

+ The maximum number of messages, during the demo period, has been multiplied five-fold to 1000 messages in order to improve the ability to properly evaluate PowerMail.

+ When the default character set for outgoing message is UTF-8, messages that only contains characters from the ISO-8859-1 charset were sent in UTF-8, instead of ISO-8859-1 as required - this has been fixed.

+ Disk image includes the latest version of SpamSieve

 Known work-arounds [documented as of 5.6.1]

+ The method for accessing passwords stored in keychains had to change for Leopard compatibility, but due to what appears to be an Apple bug, some older passwords may not be found and need to be re-entered once on first usage. Fortunately this is only a one-time event, once the passwords are re-entered, life can go on.

+ If you store your passwords in the keychain, make sure it is unlocked while using PowerMail on Leopard - Apple has changed its security policies and you may now be prompted for a keychain password at every fetch if the keychain is locked (one alternative is to store passwords in PowerMail's settings and not use the keychain for these).

+ On systems with Safari 3 installed, selecting text in an HTML message for copying requires double-clicking on the first word to be selected, then shift-clicking on the last word.
What was new in version 5.5.3
What's new in PowerMail 5.5.3: (from 5.5.2)

Fixes and enhancements

+ A crash could occur when receiving a message with multiple Content-Type header field; such messages are highly illegal in form, but seem to be favored by spammers as of late and have been known to crash earlier versions of PowerMail

+ A crash could occur when the scripts folder, inside PowerMail's application support folder, was empty

+ A human readable error is now displayed, instead of an error code, when a POP server closes the connection immediately upon connecting