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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.
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
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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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kspope reviewed on 06 Aug 2011
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Pirx reviewed on 18 Jun 2011
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.
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It beats me why they never opensourced PM.
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Ramito reviewed on 10 Feb 2011
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Oldmiller reviewed on 19 Dec 2010
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.
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Macnerd1984 reviewed on 19 Dec 2010
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Rlevent reviewed on 20 Nov 2010
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Tannin reviewed on 12 Oct 2010
Unfortunately, the developers have not been able to keep up with changing conditions. Powermail is still *terrible* in IMAP (it only supports one IMAP account at a time, and that one often crashes, while the handling is extremely poor if it doesn't crash).
Powermail does not fully support Unicode (you cannot write in Unicode), or html. Its text engine was developed in the last-century, and the unicode update of WASTE has not been used in updates of Powermail.
It is telling, too, that we're still at version 6 in October 2010. The folks at CTM probably just keep those customers who did not yet abandon them happy. Not the time to buy into it, then.
I've had versions 2 to 5, but passed on 6 (after a try-out). I would happily fork out the full price if it were up-to-date.
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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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Dzdork rated on 18 Jan 2012
Singsong rated on 24 Mar 2011
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Kliere rated on 27 Dec 2010