PowerMail - 5.2

• PowerMail now supports the searching of its database using SpotLight (requires Mac OS X 10.4 build 8A25 or later) in addition to its built-in, enhanced FoxTrot search engine:
  • If you double-click on a found item in Spotlight, it will not just open it as an orphaned document window in PowerMail but actually open the corresponding message in the database itself.
  • For users who have one or more inactive (archive) databases, open them with PowerMail 5.2 and reindex them; you will see that all of your current and archived mail can be searched in one go using Spotlight, whether or not the message is contained in your current mail database.
• Support for secure transport on SMTP, POP3 and IMAP4 using the StartTLS command (connection on the same port) in addition to specific SSL port connections
  • For STMP, this can now be configured both on a per-account basis as well as for all accounts in the Mail Schedulings…: Location setup pane
• Added the ability to import mail from Apple's Mail 2.0 (Tiger)
• Added the ability to export tabulated text in Unicode UTF-8 format, i.e. for exporting international text to recent versions of FileMaker Pro
• The Spam filtering architecture adds integration with Intego Personal Antispam

Improvements and tweaks

• Times are now displayed relatively to the current time zone, but using the daylight saving time in effect at that time. This means that a message sent at 12:00 when Daylight Savings Time (DST) was not active will continue to be displayed as sent at 12:00 when you look at it days or months later when DST is active; if you however travel and change time zones, the message will no longer appear as sent at 12:00
• Upon marking a spam message as good, its attachments are nowmoved out of the trash.
• When creating multiple mail filters with a "spam rating" condition, you can now adjust a slider to have different actions for messages with different spam levels. Note that when using SpamSieve, it is highly recommended that you treat messages with a spam rating greater than or equal to 50 as spam, and the other as good, and that you use the mark as good/mark as spam commands when SpamSieve makes mistakes, so it can learn from them. Additionally, note that having multiple filters with a "spam rating" condition can make the spam filter assistant to not behave as expected, that's why a warning dialog will be displayed in such cases
• When evaluating the "From/Sender/Reply To is not in address book" (or "is not in previous recipients") filter, a message whose sender is your own address (the one set in the account of the message) is now treated as if the address were not in the address book (or the previous recipients) gien than some spammers send messages using your own address for the "From" field.
• The message list can now be scrolled horizontally using mice or trackpads with horizontal scroll control (two-finger scrolling with the appropriate extension installed)
• A new method is used to determine when the computer is connected to the network; this may fix some difficultes when PowerMail tried to connect immediately after wake-up
• We now allow a fresh 30-day evaluation period for those who had let an earlier PowerMail evaluation period expire
• When creating the "Mail" folder in the user's home folder, we now set its permissions as readable by the owner only (it was previously set to be writable by the user only, but readable by the group). The permission is not changed if the "Mail" folder already exists, or if your database already exists in another location
• Updated the version of SpamSieve on the disk image to 2.3.1
• Includes English, German, French, Italian, Dutch and Swedish language localizations

Fixes

• AppleScripts that were previously stored inside the application package are now stored in the user's Application Support folder; this should prevent access privilege problems:
  • when the user has no write access to the application
  • for scripts that need to save persistent variables
  • for scripts that need to save aliases to other applications (such as SpamSieve integration scripts)
• An error of type "Class='file'; what=100; when=4; err=-47" could occur when receiving or sending attachments, when certain antivirus software (notably from Symantec) were installed
• PowerMail sometimes pretended that there is not enough free space on the disk to compact the database
• A crash could sometimes happen when importing a message whose size was an exact multiple of 4096 bytes
• An error could occur when exporting the database with the attachments included, and some attachments are not found.
• Fixed a drawing problem for messages contains end of lines in the subject; it was also possible to send such messages when pasting text in the subject field
• Some received messages could be marked as addressed "To" when in fact they were really of "BCC"
• When the notifications preferences are set to open the Recent Mail window without bringing it to the front, the front window no longer looses the keyboard focus
• A crash could occur when quitting PowerMail if no mail browser, folder list or message window was opened.
• It was not possible to export the database unless the mail browser window was opened
• When replying to a message, the header "references" is now properly set according to the latest RFC specifications.
• The message-ID header was not correctly generated when using a SMTP port other than 25
• PowerMail now accurately decodes MIME attachments with a uuencode, uue, or x-uue encoding (in addition to the more standard x-uuencode). It can also decode non-conformant uuencoded attachments missing the "begin" line
• Upon exporting, read messages were ignored in folders in "View unread" mode
• When forwarding or redirecting a draft message, the message would its draft status
• When an HTML message was displayed, the mouse wheel did not work in other panes or windows, notable overlying windows
• An SMTP connection could hang when the SMTP server rejected a message after having received the DATA command (for example, if it rejects it because of a virus)
• When a sent attachment is on a disconnected network volume or an offline disk, PowerMail no longer tries to mount the volume when displaying the message, nor when compacting or checking the database
• When a folder is viewed using the "view unread" mode, the status bar more clearly indicates this fact by showing both the number of messages displayed, and the total number of messages in the folder
• Copying the subject of a message from the message list, and pasting it to the view only field, did not work
• When performing "retrieve completely now" on a partial message opened in its own window, the window was left empty.
• A crash could occur when upload a message to an IMAP server
• It was impossible to export the database unless the mail browser window was opened
• When the notifications preferences are set to open the recent mail window without bringing it to the front, the front window no longer looses the keyboard focus
• PowerMail could erroneously pretend that there is not enough free space on the disk to compact the database - especially when approaching the 2-gigabyte limit for databases
• An error could occur when exporting the database with the attachments included if some attachments could not be found.
• Some exceptions and errors were reported as unknown errors, instead of giving the more detailed information that we are accustomed to reporting
• Updated the display of dates to a more modern method known to be compatible with X 10.4, 10.3 and 10.2