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PowerMail

Powerful alternative email client.

Version:  6.0.3

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Still has problems

Feedback Type:  Review

Contributed by: Lou Zer Monday, May 26 2003 @ 08:48 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOS,MacOSX

Used Product For: Over One Year

Recommend Product: YES

Haven't had a chance to install 4.1.3 yet, but after reading the bug reports, they still haven't fixed some of the more glaring problems. First and foremost, they still limit attachments to 32 character names, regardless of the fact that OS X has supported 255 for two years now. This is truly irritating. Also, some HTML mail will cause the program to 'hang' (although it will timeout after a while). I think this is due to servers no longer being around when the mail tries to read from them (yes, its mostly a spam problem, but there are times you don't realize its spam until you click on it). But at least you have the ability to turn off HTML mail by default, or only show it if there's no plain text. (And if you click and hold the globe icon at the bottom of the window, you can show HTML in the mail window, rather than in a browser).

Filters are nice, but could be more customizable. If there's a filter criteria in a long list of criteria you want to delete, there's no way to easily do it. You have to update it with the last item's criteria, then delete the last item. And, most irritating, you can't search the body of text in a filter. It sure would make spam filtering easier if I could filter for some common text of those, uhum, 'enlargement' products I keep getting.

And I'm hoping this release fixes my indexing problems (I haven't been able to search for content for at least 6 months, if not longer, keep getting an error message about some LADY error).

But, besides that, its the closest thing to Emailer out there, and, for me at least, it works well and quick. (I just wish I could find something as useful and easy to use on Windows, as I can't find a decent choice there at all).   
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Rebuild your database - C. Maurer

If you can't find contents and reindexing doesn't help, try rebuilding the database. Launch PowerMail with the option- and command-keys down then tick off the first four checkboxes.

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Saturday, May 31 2003 @ 03:57 PM PDT