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  • PowerMail wins

    Well I’ve made the switch over to PowerMail 4.1.1. Entourage started to have too much bloat. I was using iCal and Entourage’s message database was over 40 Mg, PowerMail’s was 4 Mg with an Attachments folder of 14 Mg. I was surprised. The vast majority of the features that I’ve come to utilized most in…

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  • installCodeFreshener update

    Please refresh code on the installCodeFreshener tool. A minor fix if the info page was loaded prior to entering a value for installCodeFreshener.toolFolder. I forgot to initialize the variable. Oops. Thanks Dave for pointing this out.

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  • Second chance

    I’m giving PowerMail another chance. I’ve almost got the AppleScripts working to fix most of the shortcomings I’ve found by not supporting a built-in digest burst. Maybe I’m just being overly picky. Big thanks to Wayne Brissette for helping me with some of the AS questions. I’ve got about 3 weeks left on the demo…

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  • AppleScripts are fun too

    It’s been quite a while since I dabbled in AppleScript. Mostly I use it to extend my email app. I’ve written (or helped write) a number of scripts that helped to burst digests, before it became a built-in feature of Entourage, and to change the Subject lines of my emails to allow them to sort…

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  • Back to Entourage

    PowerMail has potential, but I’m back to Entourage. There are just too many features that I use too often. Maybe someday Entourage will support Apple’s Address Book. It already has it’s own built-in spell check. Who knows maybe Mail will surprise me one of these days and provide built-in digest bursting a few other things.

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