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 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. Find out more about PowerMail 5 Version 5.2.1 release notes can be found here, with the full incremental change log available here and the manual readable here. PowerMail 5.2.1 is now available for download. Pricing is as follows: upgrades from previous PowerMail versions are just 29 Euro or 45 Euro including SpamSieve™. New single-user licenses are 49 Euro or 65 Euro including SpamSieve, and can be ordered from here .

What's new in version 5.2.1 Spotlight support (X 10.4 Tiger) In addition to the built-in high-speed FoxTrot search, available on all versions of Mac OS X, PowerMail 5.2.1 now also makes your mail data searchable from withing Spotlight Safari HTML-rendering integration Includes support displaying HTML messages with the latest standards-technology HTML messages diplay much faster and withm more reliability Better at fighting spam: Built-in filters enhancement for dealing with spam Tight integration with SpamSieve for best efficiency Support for Intego Personal Antispam Improved performance and functionality: Now ships as Mac OS X-only Mach-0 binary (requires Mac OS X 10.2 or later) Much faster when fetching, filtering and storing messages Many more filter actions (including by content) Delete messages after "n" days in the Mail trash Ability to process incorrectly-decoded messages again Long file names and alias support for attachments Ability to export attachments along with messages User interface enhancements: Fully customizable toolbars in mail browser, recent mail and message windows, as well as address book and setting dialogs, with extra addable toolbar buttons New multiple "Undo" feature on moving messages, change status, mark read/unread, mark as spam/mark as good Ability to use System sounds and custom sounds New filter interface eases editing of complex rules Configurable Address history and Recent mail view Supports .sitx decompression if Stuffit Engine is present Live resizing of windows Better organization of the Scripts menu and much more - altogether over 100 improvements between PowerMail 5.0 and 5.2.1