I am still waiting for feedback (an experience I notice is common from other responses) so this may be wrong – but this program seems to handle attachments badly.
I have no option to save to anywhere but the desktop. If you choose show in finder, it shows the finder window, but you then have to fish about to find the specific attachment. If you attach a file to an e-mail it doesn't keep a copy of it – unlike Mail, so if you delete the file from your computer, the e-mail loses its copy of the file.
I want to be able to save attachments from e-mail to a range of folders on a series of drives. The program seems not to be able to manage this. I also use e-mail to keep a record of correspondence (where it is essential that I keep both the e-mail and the attachment). From this point of view the program is poor.
SpamSieve (which I got bundled with) it works very well – within a couple of days it is handling spam much better than Mail did. The find engine (powered by Foxtrot) is excellent. And the program is very fast. However, for my purposes, I am goosed if it doesn't work better with attachments.
PowerMail
Powerful alternative email client.
Version: 6.0.3
Attachments
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: Blue Grouch Thursday, November 15 2007 @ 08:17 AM PST
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
Recommend Product: NO
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Attachments - maurer
PowerMail handles attachments as attachments--as separate files accompanying messages. It will let you specify any folder to receive attachments. They will all go into that one folder but it can be any folder you like. Once received you can choose either to open an attachment from within a message or to move it to another folder or to copy it or make an alias to it. As long as it is left in the attachments folder, PowerMail will let you open it from within a message. For outgoing messages, storing an attachment would mean duplicating it. This would be inefficient but if you want to do this, you can always CC a message to yourself instead of just leaving it in the Sent folder. PowerMail will do this automatically.Reply to This
Monday, December 03 2007 @ 07:37 AM PST