PowerMail 5.5 (Universal) is Out

PowerMail 5.5, an alternative to Apple Mail, is available for download and it updates v5.2.3.

Here are the principal changes:

• PowerMail is now a Universal application running natively on Intel and PowerPC Macs, working on Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4.x (10.4.8 or greater recommended).
• Implemented Zip compression/decompression, which replaces the prior requirement to have a 3rd-party product installed in order to stuff files.
• Applications - as well as other file packages - can now be attached to a message from the "add attachment" button or menu.
• Copying an e-mail address from an address book contact window could fail.
• If a message contains an incorrectly encoded attachment (which appears encoded in the message body), the message is no longer indexed, as it could hang the indexer for a bit of time.
• A crash could occur when scrolling certain HTML messages using the mouse wheel.
• The connection to a POP server could previously hang in some circumstances, especially with many simultaneous networking threads.
• An error could occur when importing some PowerMail Exchange files containing garbled attachment names.
• Changing the character set encoding of a received message being displayed produced unamiable results.
• Fixed a 5.5b2 bug in the license displayed in the about box.
• Copying text and pasting it in Tex-Edit Plus did not work correctly on an Intel-based Mac.

Version 5.5 is free for registered owners of PowerMail 5. [Bill Fox]