| Re: Issues in PowerMail [message #871 is a reply to message #870] |
Fri, 14 June 2019 15:40   |
Zvi Biener
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If you are looking for other options, I'd also recommend MailMate. It is
extremely highly configurable, and works with SpamSieve flawlessly.
On 14 Jun 2019, at 0:22, Jo Dorais wrote:
> Constantin, how did this go for you, the transition to PostBox? I'm
> trying
> to figure out what I'm gonna be having to switch to. I love my
> PowerMail
> and I don't want to give it up, but the time is definitely coming!
>
> On Saturday, March 30, 2019 at 11:31:22 AM UTC-7, C onstantin wrote:
>>
>> Thank you Jean Michel,
>>
>> It's too bad that Powermail is no longer getting updated. I am
>> transitioning to PostBox as we type, a process that is both tedious
>> as well
>> as frustrating. The good news is that the number of emails getting
>> mangled
>> in the conversion process is less than 0.0005% but so much time will
>> be
>> lost re-writing the many rules for sorting, etc. Postbox doesn't have
>> the
>> ability to use a honeypot to train SpamSieve. The UI is also not as
>> intuitive. Oh well!
>>
>> As for IMAP, "lightweight" is an interesting way to describe the
>> weakest
>> part of the program. The good news is that deleting the contents of
>> the
>> IMAP cache fixes IMAP issues consistently. The resultant rebuild
>> times
>> taught me the benefit of having small IMAP accounts.
>>
>> The many years with PowerMail have been fabulous, it's speed,
>> flexibility,
>> and excellent integration with SpamSieve is without peers. It
>> interesting
>> how FoxTrot search grew out of PowerMail. I may yet buy that product
>> for my
>> desktop.
>>
>> Anyhow, if you or your team ever decides to update PowerMail, please
>> contact me so I can come back.
>>
>> Cheers, Constantin
>>
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