What's new in PowerMail 6.2.1 Build 4668
Dec 3, 2013
- OS X 10.9 Mavericks support - Complete rewrite of the networking code following Apple's retirement of OpenTransport in Mac OS X 10.9
- Disk image now includes version 2.9.9 of the SpamSieve eval installer - This release is also compatible with Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks
New in PowerMail 6.2 Build 4666 (Dec 3, 2013)
- OS X 10.9 Mavericks support - Complete rewrite of the networking code following Apple's retirement of OpenTransport in Mac OS X 10.9
- Disk image now includes version 2.9.9 of the SpamSieve eval installer - This release is also compatible with Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks
New in PowerMail 6.1.4 Build 4652 (Dec 21, 2012)
- Gatekeeper Compatibility (Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and 10.7 Lion):
- Version 6.1.3 could fail to launch when Gatekeeper is enabled (i.e. allowing only applications from the Mac App Store or identified developers)
- Increased performance:
- Includes the latest optimizations contained in the core FoxTrot search engine .
- Other:
- Disk image now includes the latest SpamSieve published version at time of release
New in PowerMail 6.1 Build 4643 (Jun 27, 2011)
- 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 "" 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
New in PowerMail 6.1 Beta 1 Build 4637 (Jun 18, 2011)
- Casual-use styled-text to create HTML-formatted messages
- Ability to find and view message threads
- Batch import of mail databases and address book from Apple Mail
- Two-click export of all mail folders and address book to Apple Mail
- Mail archiving to circumvent the 2GB single-database limitation
- Quicklook display of text, graphic and multimedia attachments within the application
- Security warnings for executable attachments
- Modern Finder-like lists
- Message and other notifications via Growl
- Smart Reports
- A filter debugger can log in clear text how a message is processed
- New self-updating application code allows single download once and auto-update to revisions and final builds.
- Automated purchasing and registration process using Kagi within the application to provide immediate satisfaction.
New in PowerMail 6.0.4 Build 4612 (Mar 31, 2010)
- Search speed optimizations:
- Includes update to the core FoxTrot search engine, which includes further performance optimizations
- Updated the build system to Apple's latest XCode - Performance gains observed as a result of the new compilers
- 64-bit Spotlight plugin: On Mac OS X 10.6, this enables faster indexing of PowerMail messages from within Spotlight, FoxTrot Professional Search and FoxTrot Personal Search which are now also 64-bit enabled.
- 64-bit QuickLook plugin: On Mac OS X 10.6, this enables optimized viewing using the Quick Look function.
- Fixed a possible corruption of the SpamSieve scripts
- Disk image updated to include SpamSieve 2.8.1
- Fixed a bug in the German localization
New in PowerMail 6.0.3 Build 4609 (Sep 8, 2009)
- Casual-use styled-text to create HTML-formatted messages.
- Optional indexing of HTML-parts.
- Modern Finder-like lists.
- Ability to find and view message threads.
- Quick Look display of text, graphic and multimedia attachments within the application.
- Display of messages in Finder and FoxTrot Professional without PowerMail launched.
- Address book synchronization with MobileMe and e-mail coexistence with iPhone Mail.
- Batch import of mail databases and address book from Apple Mail and Thunderbird.
- Match and merge imported folders into existing folders.
- Two-click export of all mail folders and address book to Apple Mail and Thunderbird.
- Mail archiving to circumvent the 2GB single-database limitation.
- Service messages and notifications via Growl.
- A filter debugger can log in clear text how a message is processed.
- Made the application self-updating upon launch; download once and auto-update to revised builds.
- Automated purchasing/registration process using Kagi within the PowerMail for immediate satisfaction.
- Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) compatible.
New in PowerMail 6.0.1 Build 4594 (Jan 25, 2009)
- HTML printing: HTML messages are now printed as rich text, as printing HTML could skip the print dialog, or print an empty page.
- Fixed a few bugs introduced in version.
New in PowerMail 6.0 Beta 1 (Nov 20, 2008)
- Casual-use styled-text to create HTML-formatted messages
- Modern Finder-like lists
- Ability to find and view message threads
- Quick Look display of text, graphic and multimedia attachments within the application
- Display of messages in Finder and FoxTrot Professional without PowerMail launched
- Address book synchronization with MobileMe and e-mail coexistence with iPhone Mail
- Batch import of mail databases and address book from Apple Mail and Thunderbird
- Match and merge imported folders into existing folders
- Two-click export of all mail folders and address book to Apple Mail and Thunderbird
- Mail archiving to circumvent the 2GB single-database limitation
- Service messages and notifications via Growl
- A filter debugger can log in clear text how a message is processed
- Made the self-updating upon launch; download once and auto-update to revisions and final builds.
- Automated purchasing and registration process using Kagi within the application for immediate satisfaction.
New in PowerMail 5.6.5 (May 27, 2008)
- Includes latest search accelerations and optimizations inherited from recent work on companion application FoxTrot Professional Search
- Several cosmetic clean-ups across the application
- Disk image contains latest version of SpamSieve (2.7)
New in PowerMail 5.6.4 (Apr 15, 2008)
- Restored compatibility with Mac OS 10.3.9
- Low-level rebuild was broken after the 5.6.2 porting to XCode 3.0 - fixed
- Restored the command-key shortcut for hiding the application
New in PowerMail 5.6.3 (Mar 3, 2008)
- Low-level rebuild was broken after the 5.6.2 porting to XCode 3.0 - fixed
- Restored the command-key shortcut for hiding the application
New in PowerMail 5.6.2 Build 4501 (Feb 13, 2008)
- Successful porting to XCode 3.0 - while this should be a transparent change, it has three implications for PowerMail users:
- Improves our ability to keep up with system changes, especially on Mac OS X 10.5.x (Leopard) and later
- Benefits from enhancements in code optimization and acceleration provided by Apple
- Produces a significantly smaller binary than 5.6.1
- Fixed a hang that previously could occur when downloading certain malformed (or should we say malevolently-formed) spam messages, such as have appeared recently
- New version of SpamSieve included in disk image
New in PowerMail 5.6.1 (Dec 14, 2007)
- Occasional searches on large databases are now much faster, as the index optimization phase is now performed transparently
- No longer will you see a "Optimizing index" modal dialog at the beginning of a search !
- Searching using "matches the search pattern" option now supports excluded words inside quoted strings
- Searching using "matches the search pattern" option now supports exclusion of exact phrases
- Searching using "matches the search pattern" or "includes at least one of the words" options now allows to combine multiple quoted strings (in addition to multiple simple words) with an OR operator (using the vertical bar | in case of "matches the search pattern")
- You may now specify words to be found within a given proximity range
- You can now search exact strings within a given proximity range
- Leopard compatibility:
- On Mac OS X 10.5, scheduled connections could fail if the account's password was saved in the keychain
- Fixes and enhancements:
- [5.6.1] Incidental to the above issue, there may have been a crash once after modifying an account's password.
- The maximum number of messages, during the demo period, has been multiplied five-fold to 1000 messages in order to improve the ability to properly evaluate PowerMail.
- When the default character set for outgoing message is UTF-8, messages that only contains characters from the ISO-8859-1 charset were sent in UTF-8, instead of ISO-8859-1 as required - this has been fixed.
- Disk image includes the latest version of SpamSieve
- Known work-arounds [documented as of 5.6.1]:
- The method for accessing passwords stored in keychains had to change for Leopard compatibility, but due to what appears to be an Apple bug, some older passwords may not be found and need to be re-entered once on first usage. Fortunately this is only a one-time event, once the passwords are re-entered, life can go on.
- If you store your passwords in the keychain, make sure it is unlocked while using PowerMail on Leopard - Apple has changed its security policies and you may now be prompted for a keychain password at every fetch if the keychain is locked (one alternative is to store passwords in PowerMail's settings and not use the keychain for these).
- On systems with Safari 3 installed, selecting text in an HTML message for copying requires double-clicking on the first word to be selected, then shift-clicking on the last word.