PowerMail
Current Version: 4.2.1 (October 5, 2003) / 5.6.5 (May 27, 2008) / 6.0.5 (June 15, 2010)
CTM Development produces PowerMail, a POP3 and IMAP4 mail client that features fast searching using CTM's proprietary "FoxTrot" search technology, as well as comprehensive spam filtering.
Version 6 - the latest release for Mac OS X - added/changed the following:
- 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.
Version 6.0.5 brings the following additional changes over version 6.0.4:
- Multi-lingual spell checking - On Mac OS X 10.6, PowerMail now supports the new multi-lingual spell checker ("automatic by language" option).
- Performance improvements reported by several testers
- PowerPC compatibility - A compatibilty issue has been addressed for PowerPC machines under certain circumstances.
- Non-administrator account - PowerMail now asks for the administrator password when needed, instead of complaining that the disk was not write-enabled, when ran from a standard Mac OS X user account.
- German localization - Fixed a bug in the German localization.
- Updated SpamSieve - Disk image now includes version 2.8.2 of SpamSieve
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