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PowerMail
PowerMail 6.1
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PowerMail ... Built on top of the PowerMail Engine, a robust cross-platform foundation encapsulating 11 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
What's New
Version 6.1:
  • Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: Focused enhancements to ensure compatibility with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
  • Increased performance: The search index now compacts itself automatically for much improved performance, especially on large indices.
  • Kinder URL encoding: Implemented a long-standing request from several users to no longer wrap outgoing plain-text messages at 78 characters. This will help recipients of PowerMail messages whose mail clients did not honor RFC 1738 for the formatting of URL's in between "<" and ">" marks.
  • Improved export: Messages are now systematically re-encoded, to make sure that body lines starting with "From " will be encoded as quote-printable, hence they will not be treated as a message separator.
  • Bug fix: Copying an email address from the simple header's contextual menu did not work.
Version 6.1:
  • Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: Focused enhancements to ensure compatibility with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
  • Increased performance: The search index now compacts itself automatically for much improved performance, especially on large indices.
  • Kinder URL encoding: Implemented a long-standing request from several users to no longer wrap outgoing more...
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later.



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PowerMail User Discussion (Write a Review)
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Francisco Medina Espinosa reviewed on 29 Feb 2012
Working at the International Desk of the largest non profitable NGO in Mexico means to me to deal with thousands of emails every year. I tried several email clients during the last years but none was strong enough to professionaly cop with my heavy work... until I found PowerMail. It's really amazing, how quickly I can find now (in seconds!) the right mail I need. I'm absolutely satisfied with it: it's got a intuitive interface, it doesn't split my several accounts, it's simply powerful and it perfectly integrates with Spamsieve and Devonthink Pro Office. The people at CTM have defined a high standard. It's not a matter of "works" but of quality and efficency. Thanks a lot!
[Version 6.1]


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kspope reviewed on 06 Aug 2011
I've given this program heavy use over the years and been very happy with it and with the customer support.
[Version 6.1]

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Pirx replied on 06 Nov 2011
Owing to CTM obviously not working on Powermail any more apart from the barest necessary updates, I am on the verge of quitting PowerMail and changing to (gag...choke) Microsoft Outlook.
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Pirx reviewed on 18 Jun 2011
Finally CTM seem to be working on an update. Its alive!

My humble request - apart from the obvious update needs - would be to have a Swiss-precision GNUPG integration or at least a plugin.

Having gone through several e-mail clients, to me Powermail is still by far the best e-mail client on OS X.
[Version 6.1b1]


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+5
Mikael B commented on 09 Jun 2011
I just can't be bothered anymore. Mail is not that good, but it doesn't get in the way and most importantly, it's puts IMAP at the same standard as POP.
It beats me why they never opensourced PM.
[Version 6.1b1]


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Pirx commented on 15 May 2011
How about 64 bit?
[Version 6.0.6]

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Mikael B replied on 09 Jun 2011
What difference would that make? Lame question. PowerMails are way harsher than 64 bit.
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Mikael B replied on 09 Jun 2011
Should read: PowerMails' problems are way harsher than 64 bit.
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+2

+57
Pirx commented on 08 May 2011
Where are the updates? There is so much to do! Guys, get it going!
[Version 6.0.6]


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Ramito reviewed on 10 Feb 2011
Used it for years - best and fastest.search.ever! Clean & felxible if you don't care about html display where it sometimes chokes BUT - a big but- ridiculous price, including for upgrades. I wont pay for v.6 after $30 for v.5 Poor integration w/ Mac OS, steep price, almost zero support. Cut the price include lifetime upgrades and the app won't die the death it seems doomed to die. A real pity, because it could have a niche.
[Version 6.0.6]

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kingjj replied on 21 Jan 2012
The paid upgrade is why I'm still using 5.6. That said, it still works really, really well. If it's not broke, no need to fix. Especially if that fix costs.
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+1

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Oldmiller reviewed on 19 Dec 2010
Still my favored email client. I just love how fast it start's - boom and it's there -, how fast it executes my many pop-accounts and I especially like the great search engine.

The attachments are stored external and not within the database. Though I agree, that the database limit of 2gb can be a limitation, I see myself not approaching that limit for the next ten years with 9 years of email already behind me.
Databases need mantaining and I cannot follow the complaints here. I have supported users of Apple Mail and Entourage for years and to me PowerMail is the one app I trust the most, when I think back about database problems I worked on. I never had problems with PowerMail, this app runs not only very fast but also absolute stable here for years.

I wish, CTM support were more active. They are there somehow and they show up, when problems arise (seldom enough), but there is more to support than only putting out fires. And there could be so much more to PowerMail, than 'only' maintaining the app, but thanks for keeping it alive anyway. But I so much wish CTM would make PowerMail a more modern and competing app. They just need to listen to their user base here and on their discussions a little bit more.
[Version 6.0.6]


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Macnerd1984 reviewed on 19 Dec 2010
Powermail is a relic of a bygone era. In the old days it was passable, but these days it is struggling to keep up, and has been for years. There are so many things wrong with it that there is not space to list them all, but suffice to say that so much of what a modern day mail client should be is simply missing, or implemented in a half arsed way. Finally, I can't finish without commenting on the interface - It has always been horrible, but now it's even worse. Instead of a full interface redesign/rebuild for OS X they just slapped in a few nasty looking generic icons and that was that. It looks like what it is - An old app, patched up to try and look like something that's current. "Screaming fast" it may be, but these days that's not enough. I love the way that as a feature it lists "Mail archiving o circumvent the 2GB Single- Database limitation". Rather than actually not have that ridiculous limitation in the first place, they chose to make you archive your stuff to get around it. That should tell you all you need to know, and should also ensure you don't waste a ridiculous $59 on this relic. Queen Elizabeth's snatch is fresher than this....
[Version 6.0.6]

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Pirx replied on 18 Jun 2011
Strange, the interface on the other e-mail clients is what turns me off most. Powermails interface is one of the reasons why I want to stick to Powermail, clear, concise, logical.
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Rlevent reviewed on 20 Nov 2010
Very bad program. The mail database is limited to 2 GB. When you exceed this limit the program crashes and will not relaunch. All your mail is lost. The developer says it would be too much work to fix this problem. To compete against the competition, they need to rewrite the software to meet modern standards and expectations.
[Version 6.0.5]


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litljohn had trouble on 20 Nov 2008
Same here - the beta DMG will not mount using OS X 10.4.11 PPC
[Version 6.0b1]

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MacUpdate Lon replied on 20 Nov 2008
I've downloaded this file three times today, the third time was just a few moments ago. Each time the .dmg mounted with no issues using Safari Version 3.2 (4525.26.12), OS X 10.4.11 on a MBP C2D.
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litljohn commented on 20 Nov 2008
Interesting... I'd just finished posting my problem with the .dmg and noticed a reply to the previous poster from MacUpdate Admin regarding their success with their .dmg mountings... They said they're using Safari 3.2 and it got me thinking. I had just updated to Safari 3.2 myself but decided to revert back to 3.1.2 the other day. (Pithelmet not working yet with 3.2) SO, turns out that the file I receive using that Safari 3.1.2 is called pm6.dmg.bz2 - it won't mount - tried it at least 6 times. ANYWAY, I have another (clean) machine available using Safari 3.1.2 & OS X 10.4.11 where I've NOT installed Safari 3.2 and guess what - I downloaded the file once again and it's called pm6.dmg and it mounted just fine on that machine! I wonder what THAT's all about?! ;)
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MacUpdate Lon commented on 20 Nov 2008
http://unsanity.org/archives/mac_os_x/my_dmg_is_bwoken_after_download.php

If you download what should be a .dmg and it shows up on the desktop as a .dmg.bz2, you must remove the .bz2 suffix and then the downloaded .dmg will mount.
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litljohn replied on 20 Nov 2008
Wow, you're right! The teeth gritting part for me was that the .bz2 would create the .dmg that wouldn't mount! lol Knock off the .bz2 and it mounts perfectly... AND it has nothing at all to do with my switch back to Safari 3.1.2 from 3.2... ONE can never presume can one? thanks once again :)
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Lord Kyron had trouble on 20 Nov 2008
This Beta's DMG is not recognized. I sent an email telling them about it, but have not heard back yet.
[Version 6.0b1]

1 Reply

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MacUpdate Lon replied on 20 Nov 2008
I've downloaded this file three times today, the third time was just a few moments ago. Each time the .dmg mounted with no issues using Safari Version 3.2 (4525.26.12), OS X 10.4.11 on a MBP C2D.


Dzdork rated on 18 Jan 2012

[Version 6.1]




Singsong rated on 24 Mar 2011

[Version 6.0.6]



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Kliere rated on 27 Dec 2010

[Version 6.0.6]


Downloads:39,413
Version Downloads:1,201
Type:Internet : Email
License:Demo
Date:05 Aug 2011
Platform:PPC / Intel
Price: $70.00
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PowerMail ... Built on top of the PowerMail Engine, a robust cross-platform foundation encapsulating 11 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
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