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PowerMail - 4.2b1

Powerful alternative email client

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All Time:	(3.5)
Version 4.2b1:	(5.0)
Selected Version:	4.2b1
Release Date:	2003-08-09
License:	Beta
Downloads (version 4.2b1):	848
Downloads (all versions):	1,859
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:

Now includes entirely new CTM FoxTrot(TM) high-speed search technology; benefits over previous PowerMail releases include:

Ultra-fast indexing and searching: benchmarks show performance gains ranging from 300% to over 500%
Instant on-the-fly indexing upon fetching messages
New extensible search user interface with combinable fields - similar to Panther's Finder searches
Supports the following search criteriae:

Entire message content
Subject
Body
From
To
From or To
other message attributes:

Date sent [range]
Date received [range]
Label
Account

Supports the following combinable search operators:
- Ability to restrict searches to subject, to, from or body
- Includes all of the words
- Includes exact phrase
- ncludes at least one of the words
- Does not include the words
- matches the search pattern (advanced mode):
Offers colored hiliting of search results in a message's body
Other improvements over previous searching in PowerMail 3 and 4:
- Gets rid of all former "Lady" errors
- Background indexing now fully reliable on Mac OS X
- Numbers are now indexed
- Supports Japanese, Chinese and Korean properly (entirely based on Unicode)
- Most of the re-indexing process occurs in a background thread, allowing simultaneous work in the application (this used to only be true for updating the index)
FILTERING can now also occur based on a message's content (notably useful for creating customizeable built-in spam filters)
IMAP SEARCHES now possible and very fast due to indexing of the local IMAP cache (once connected, the search dialog will allow restricting searches to the selected IMAP mailboxes)
Still supports Mac OS X, Mac OS 9 and even 8.6
Now compatible with the "Panther" (Mac OS X 10.3) preview builds

Operating System Requirements:

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

Mac OS X 10.2
Mac OS X 10.1
Mac OS Classic

Additional Requirements:

PPC
Mac OS 8.6 - 9.2.2 with CarbonLib
Mac OS X 10.1.5 or higher

Feedback Summary:

Version 4.2b1:
Overall Rating:	(5.0)	Features:	(5.0)	Support:	(4.0)
Ease of Use:	(5.0)	Quality / Stability:	(5.0)	Price:	(4.0)

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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