Re: Incoming mail size?
I believe that should be read as Receive only header if message size is greater than... IOW don't pull down really big messages unless I say to. I still have this set to 5MB from the days I was getting by on 1GB/no at one location. There's an analogous setting in most smartphone apps so you don't get monstrous emails downloading over the mobile network. =aw but it's not clear to me what that option really means. Receive header only if message size is greater than... seems to imply that a message header (what's a message header?) will never be received if it doesn't meet a certain size requirement. And then what happens if that option is not ticked as in my case? Current version is 6.6 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Possible to copy filters to another account?
I have a lot of filters for incoming mail (each pretty much just filters into a folder). I'm recreating the folder structure in another account, and would like to have the appropriate filters in that account too. Is there a way to copy them to another, rather than having to recreate each in turn? Thanks! - - Andrew mailto:aweb...@wwwebbers.com Current version is 6.1.8 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Cache
Monday, November 8, 2010, 1:57:37 PM, you wrote: It wasn't one file, it were over fifty-thousand files. The path to my mail directory is F:\TB and there's a subdirectory called 'cache'. There were all those files, meanwhile deleted. I don't have a folder cache in the hierarchy of my The Bat! messages. Should I be worried? I don't see a separate entry for cache location under Options | Preferences. Thanks! -- Andrewmailto:aweb...@wwwebbers.com Current version is 4.2.23 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Cache
Saturday, November 13, 2010, 8:54:46 PM, you wrote: Here is the location of my cache - I have Windows 7 Home Premium, 32-bit: E:\My Documents\The Bat\cache Of course, my mail is also stored in E:\My Documents\The Bat Thank you Bob and Rick, Windows 7 Pro 32-bit, my path is C:\Users\[username]\Documents\The Bat\ and the only folders that don't match a mail account are dictionaries and Speller -- Andrewmailto:aweb...@wwwebbers.com Current version is 4.2.23 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: All The Bat! files disappeared?
Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 12:46:52 PM, you wrote: Dragging the folder back up to its proper level should put things back as theyy were before the move, but you may find that initially all the sub-folders seem to be empty. I had that experience when I copied my installation from one machine to another. However I discovered that when I clicked on any of the empty folders, it immediately was re-populated. Apparently there are internal indexes that don't get built when moving the mail system, but do get built on the first attempt to access the folder. It was quite disconcerting at first, but all turned out well once I had found out how to trigger the rebuilding action! One caution: instead of deleting the present top-level structure, I would simply rename it to something like My Doicuments\tb.new so that you don't lose the messages that it contains. You can them import them back into their rightful locations after restoring the original files. Thanks, all seems well again. I haven't imported the very few messages downloaded before I noticed the problem, but I did copy the folder for that purpose. =aw Current version is 4.2.23 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Folders on disk, missing from TB!
Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 4:03:53 AM, you wrote: On Wednesday 9 December 2009 at 3:22:07 AM, in mid:991923889.20091208222...@wwwebbers.com, Andrew Webber wrote: Folder X has MESSAGES.TBB = 43 KB, MESSAGES.TBI = 18 KB Folder Y has MESSAGES.TBB = 3968 KB, MESSAGES.TBI = 316 KB Folder Z has MESSAGES.TBB = 84 KB, MESSAGES.TBI = 24 KB Is there anything else I can do to have The Bat! find these? What happens if you just create a new Folder Y from within TB! (and make sure it points to the same path as the old one if not using default as the directory path for all folders)? The newly re-created Folder Y should contain the existing messagebase, although I can't remember if you need to close and re-start TB! for it to find it. Thanks for the suggestion. I tried that and got this message: The directory specified seems to be already used by another folder. Do you still want to use this directory?. I expect that's okay but I wanted to make sure TB! wasn't going to blow away what's there. Should I say yes? Thanks! -- Andrewmailto:aweb...@wwwebbers.com Current version is 4.2.12.4 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Folders on disk, missing from TB!
MFPA, Thursday, December 10, 2009, 5:14:42 PM, you wrote: On Thursday 10 December 2009 at 7:22:43 PM, in mid:403104275.20091210142...@wwwebbers.com, Andrew Webber wrote: Thanks for the suggestion. I tried that and got this message: The directory specified seems to be already used by another folder. Do you still want to use this directory?. I expect that's okay but I wanted to make sure TB! wasn't going to blow away what's there. Should I say yes? Just in case, make a copy of the files from the relevant folder first. I'm confident there will be no issues with saying yes but I don't want you to lose any data by following my advice. (-; Thanks. I did that I there are the emails (I assume it's all of them, but even if not it's definitely a bunch that end the day before my new folder started). So it did work. I appreciate the help. :) =aw Current version is 4.2.12.4 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Folders on disk, missing from TB!
The Bat! Professional v4.0.38, Windows 7, no encryption since it cause me so much trouble before and turned out not to be secure anyway (when I restored from a backup of the encrypted install, no password needed to reveal everything!). Some folders seem to be disappearing and I don't know why. To cite one example I'm sure of, in Windows Explorer I can see folder X with sub-folders Y and Z. In The Bat! I can only see X and Z. I've done CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-L from the account's Inbox, from X, and from Z. In every case I get 0 lost folders found. Z didn't even exist before, I had X and Y and when Y disappeared, I thought I deleted it (Y) by accident so I created Z. Folder X has MESSAGES.TBB = 43 KB, MESSAGES.TBI = 18 KB Folder Y has MESSAGES.TBB = 3968 KB, MESSAGES.TBI = 316 KB Folder Z has MESSAGES.TBB = 84 KB, MESSAGES.TBI = 24 KB Is there anything else I can do to have The Bat! find these? Thanks! -- Andrew mailto:aweb...@wwwebbers.com Current version is 4.2.12.4 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Firefox and The Bat! (for mailto:)
Hello, I'm having a problem with mailto: links in Firefox. Windows XP, Firefox 3.5.3, The Bat! 4.0.38 I'm sure this used to work properly, but now when I click on a mailto: URL in Firefox, Windows starts installing MS Outlook instead of launching The Bat!. I went into Tools | Options and searched for mailto. The possible actions are: -- Use Microsoft Office Outlook (default) -- Use Yahoo! Mail -- Use Gmail -- Use other I suppose I could choose the last option and point to The Bat!, but before I do, I'm wondering why this is happening. On the Start menu, The Bat! is the email program (2nd item, left side). In IE7, The Bat! is the email program. I also don't get The Bat! as an option under Control Panel | Set my default email program (in that case, I get Outlook, Outlook Express, and Forte Agent). What's the best way to get this to work in Firefox? Thanks! -- Andrew mailto:aweb...@wwwebbers.com Current version is 4.2.10.0 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Firefox and The Bat! (for mailto:)
Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 2:12:20 PM, I wrote: Hello, I'm having a problem with mailto: links in Firefox. Windows XP, Firefox 3.5.3, The Bat! 4.0.38 I'm sure this used to work properly, but now when I click on a mailto: URL in Firefox, Windows starts installing MS Outlook instead of launching The Bat!. I went into Tools | Options and searched for mailto. The possible actions are: -- Use Microsoft Office Outlook (default) -- Use Yahoo! Mail -- Use Gmail -- Use other I suppose I could choose the last option and point to The Bat!, but before I do, I'm wondering why this is happening. On the Start menu, The Bat! is the email program (2nd item, left side). In IE7, The Bat! is the email program. I also don't get The Bat! as an option under Control Panel | Set my default email program (in that case, I get Outlook, Outlook Express, and Forte Agent). What's the best way to get this to work in Firefox? Sorry, one correction to what I wrote above. After I posted, I tried doing it in IE7, and though it says The Bat! is my email client, I still get Outlook 2007 Setup when I clicked on the mailto: link. -- Andrewmailto:aweb...@wwwebbers.com Current version is 4.2.10.0 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: TB 4.0.38: Corruption problems with mail folders
Thank you for the detailed answers Thomas, I have some follow-ups below -- Andrewmailto:aweb...@wwwebbers.com Sunday, August 2, 2009, 2:29:55 AM, you wrote: AW It may be that I never quite cleaned up the problem, I'm not sure. AW Typically when I ran the Maintenance Centre, it would find lots of AW errors in lots of folders, then I'd end up with empty folders. :( I AW guess I get part.bin files, though I haven't done anything with AW them. The problem with on-the-fly encryption (OTFE) is that you can't do anything with them. I have not managed to import or access the mails inside. So even if I'm running TB! with the same OTFE password, it won't let me import those renamed part.bin files!? I had inferred from RITL's answer that I could import them using the password. :( I certainly can't do anything with them using TextPad, which seems to be how the Help screens recommend. AW I've got several .TBK backups available, and I have 32 part.bin AW files in various folders. What's the best way to get the most files AW back? Uninstall TheBat! and reinstall as Plain. Do not use OTFE. If you now restore from backup, your mails will be there. If the manitenance center resilts in *.bin files, then you can rename these files to .EBB and import into TB!. All the .TBK backups were created with OTFE turned on. If I reinstall without OTFE, will I be able to restore from those existing .TBKs? Or are you suggesting specifically to do a backup _today_ without OTFE (after reinstalling) and then do the Maintenance Centre? Obviously, you would have to move them first, because the file names already exist in that folder. However, in my experience it does not work with OTFE, but they might have changed something in the meantime, so I suggest to try this first before you uninstall and reinstall. I will try doing the import from a renamed part.bin and see what happens. AW Does this seem reasonable? Will restoring from a backup overwrite AW what I already have Yes. Just to be entirely clear, it overwrites the emails that match, or clears out the folder and replaces with the contents of the backup? AW (if so, what do I do?)? I hope you leave messages on the server. I've started doing that but only recently. In fact, it shouldn't be happpening. I suggest you check your harddisk for mechanical failures, I think FDISK does the job but please wait for experts here to contradict me. I suspect you're right, I need to verify the HD as a precaution. Thanks again! =aw Current version is 4.2.9.1 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
TB 4.0.38: Corruption problems with mail folders
Hello, I've been using The Bat! for some time and have been having an ongoing problem with corrupted mail folders. (The Bat! v4.0.38, with on-the-fly encryption active.) It may be that I never quite cleaned up the problem, I'm not sure. Typically when I ran the Maintenance Centre, it would find lots of errors in lots of folders, then I'd end up with empty folders. :( I guess I get part.bin files, though I haven't done anything with them. Most recently I did a restore from a .TBK backup and appear to have restored some bad folders (I could see it happening, since I'm likely now to do a backup before messing around with my message base, yet I've got bad folders). I've got several .TBK backups available, and I have 32 part.bin files in various folders. What's the best way to get the most files back? I'm thinking I should restore all the backups, good and bad, then run Maintenance Centre again and let it purge the dupes and create yet more .bin files. Then, import from the .bin files (RIT told me to do that, though I'm not completely clear on the procedure since they said to rename as MESSAGES.TBB [presumably MESSAGES.EBB?] and import, though I guess not from their current folders). Does this seem reasonable? Will restoring from a backup overwrite what I already have (if so, what do I do?)? And is there a way to avoid this happening again and again? I'm not now sure whether everything was cleaned up once, then went bad again, or if I never really got the badness fixed. Thanks! -- Andrew mailto:aweb...@wwwebbers.com Current version is 4.2.9.1 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
