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PowerMail - 5.6

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All Time:	(3.5)
Version 5.6:	(3.5)
Selected Version:	5.6
Release Date:	2007-12-10
License:	Update
Downloads (version 5.6):	293
Downloads (all versions):	1,847
Price:	$49.00

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Product Description:

Built on top of the PowerMail Engine, a robust cross-platform foundation encapsulating 9 years of messaging and directory experience, PowerMail is continuously enhanced with the following objectives:

Establish a lean, mean and efficient alternative e-mail client for people who care about e-mail
Acknowledge the importance of our user's data accesibility by offering reliable storage, high-speed indexing and the ability to export to a variety of standard formats
Design and implement a clean, robust Macintosh user-interface with best-of-class Mac OS X support
Contribute to the on-going diversity of mail clients on the Mac
Evolve our code base on a regular basis to meet customer needs
Excel in supporting multi-lingual, world-wide mail using Unicode standards
Support advanced Mac OS 9 technologies as well native multi-tasking and memory protection on Mac OS X
Provide a smooth migration experience to users of Microsoft Entourage, Outlook Express, Claris Emailer and Netscape Communicator 4.x

What's new in this version:

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

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.0
Mac OS X 10.1
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.2
Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS Classic

Feedback Summary:

Version 5.6:
Overall Rating:	(3.5)	Features:	(3.5)	Support:	(2.5)
Ease of Use:	(3.5)	Quality / Stability:	(3.5)	Price:	(3.5)

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Regretful farewell - Version: 6.0.2, 3/31/2009 04:25AM PST

evelix

I've used PowerMail since they EOL'ed 'Emailer' - that's a good few years. But I've now had to walk away from it, in favour of Apple's 'Mail.' I've gotten so tired of the length of time PowerMail takes to load, patchy IMAP support, vestigial HTML support (yes, I prefer plain text, too - but the times they are a' changing), the weird attempts at synchronization with Apple's 'Address Book' and the inadequate user guide. This email client used to rock - and seems still to be only one capable of using a single database for multiple users. The overhead just got too high - sorry guys.

Great E-mail App - Version: 6.0.2, 3/25/2009 01:53PM PST

telem

I've used PowerMail for years and am very pleased with its speed, search functions and ease of use. 6.02 adds some neat capabilities.

Robust and dependable email Client - Version: 6.0, 12/7/2008 01:13PM PST

Bluenut

Long time user and a very satisfied one.
Most of all, the best search function I have seen yet
The application IS updated regularly and the feature set is not bloated by unnecessary functions.

Now I must admit that the imap support and the price are questionable