I always wait with reviews until I have used an application for a longer time, but now it's time to praise.

Over many years I had collected thousands upon thousands files in countless folders with subfolders many levels deep, all things mixed - pure chaos. Maybe it was just that the time in my life was right, but DtPO was the first programm that really made it easy to clean up this horrible mess I made. I often tried, but with DtPO's smart groups showing duplicates and it's many different view options doing so was so effective that it was almost fun to.

Since then - almost 2 years ago - this extremely feature rich and powerful thing has helped me to stay organized and get productive on a level I always dreamed of.

I get tons of technical documents and have to deal with massive email communication with suppliers and customers and have to have all this files and emails available and at hand in every moment of my business in my shop as well as on the go when visiting customers at home (with Dt To Go on my iPhone) - and ideally in one place.
DtPO made this possible and changed they way I work: With scripts from DEVONtechnologies and rules in Apple Mail I directly file all my email in the moment it arrives to DtPO, it gets filed automatically to different folders (groups in DtPO) and I read from different smart groups there from where I flag or label or set tags, directly answer or delete it. Some of those I send to OmniFocus as a To Do, the script to do so is part of the many helpful scripts that come with DtPO to work with other applications.

At present I have 5 databases totaling 8 GB and - including the startup of the programm - DtPO opens them all in less than 13 seconds and this is on a 4 GB Intel iMac from 2007. This things is fast and stable and absolutely reliable from what I can say and should there be a problem against all expectations: DtPO keeps all imported files in their original format and they are all available in the Finder. (You can index them alternatively.)

And I want to leave big thanks to Eric Böhnisch-Volkmann and Christian Grunenberg from DEVONtechnologies that kindly supported me on my special needs with competence and passion - directly as well as on their user forums, which is a great place to get help and inspiration. These are great folks and they listen to their community and constantly improve DtPO. Outstanding product!

Makes me happy to see updates on Camino.
It's such an elegant, nice and lightweight and fast browser - my favorite choice since way back in 2002 when it started as Chimera. Wow, more than 9 years! This thing accompanies me almost almost as long as I'm on OSX. I just want to say a real big thank you to the developers who keep this juwel alive.

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.