Problem with TB and Chrome

2013-06-21 Thread Gene Brown
Installed TB on a new computer and am now having a problem using it with Chrome as a browser. With Chrome as my default browser, clicking on a link in an email on TB opens to a blank page unless Chrome is already open in the background. If Chrome is already open there is no problem. If I use

Re: Problem with TB and Chrome

2013-06-21 Thread Gene Brown
On Friday, June 21, 2013, 4:38:12 PM, you wrote: I use Chrome and can't confirm that I use Chrome on two other PCs with The Bat! and can't confirm it either. :-)This is the only machine with the problem. You can go to Control Panel\Default Programs\Set Associations An make sure HTTP

Re: Connection Centre Problem

2013-06-19 Thread Gene Brown
On Wednesday, June 19, 2013, 9:00:01 AM, you wrote: I've held off on replying to this thread because in my heart of hearts I really don't think this is the problem, but I just have to ask: Are you using an idevice (iPhone, Ipod, Ipad) to access your mail? Whenever I do that I have to

Re: Connection Centre Problem

2013-06-18 Thread Gene Brown
On Saturday, June 15, 2013, 8:28:46 PM, you wrote: Never mind! After reinstalling it one more time, things seem to be working OK. I must have had a typo somewhere that followed me. -- Running The Bat! version 4.2.44.2 under Windows 7 The problem has re-appeared. After initially working

Re: Connection Centre Problem

2013-06-18 Thread Gene Brown
On Tuesday, June 18, 2013, 10:33:45 AM, you wrote: Sounds like a firewall problem. Disable the the firewall and see whether that fixes the problem. Good idea, but it didn't change anything. (Except that Windows complains about having it turned off.) -- Running The Bat! version 4.2.44.2

Re: Connection Centre Problem

2013-06-18 Thread Gene Brown
On Tuesday, June 18, 2013, 11:56:08 AM, you wrote: Good idea, but it didn't change anything. (Except that Windows complains about having it turned off.) Well! The problem has mysteriously corrected itself once again. We'll see if it holds. Otherwise you may be hearing from me again. --

Connection Centre Problem

2013-06-15 Thread Gene Brown
After installing TB on a new PC, I've having problems sending and receiving mail. I did a backup and restore from my old PC so all the accounts and settings were transferred over, but I get the following error message when I click F2 for a combined delivery: FETCH - Connection to host

Re: Connection Centre Problem

2013-06-15 Thread Gene Brown
Never mind! After reinstalling it one more time, things seem to be working OK. I must have had a typo somewhere that followed me. -- Running The Bat! version 4.2.44.2 under Windows 7 Current version is 5.2.2 | 'Using TBUDL' information:

Re: Outbox Problems

2013-04-01 Thread Gene Brown
Never mind. Uninstalling and reinstalling TB seems to have solved the problems. Thanks. -- Running The Bat! version 4.2.42 under Windows 7 Current version is 5.2.2 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html

Outbox Problems

2013-03-30 Thread Gene Brown
My wife is running ver 4.2.44.2 of TB, and yesterday her outbox froze up on one account. No messages get sent out, although incoming messages are received just fine. Outgoing messages just sit there. The Connection Center times itself out. The account log shows this as its final line:

Re: Setting sending to default to adelay

2009-06-22 Thread Gene Brown
On Monday, June 22, 2009, 12:47:25 PM, you wrote: IAW It really should have been in the help file though as this new feature IAW was mentioned in the public release of version 4.2 But it is in the help file! MPFA just mentioned how to search in it (i.e. Google). To veteran users of TB, this

Re: Download URL Manager

2009-06-01 Thread Gene Brown
On Thursday, May 28, 2009, 9:25:11 AM, you wrote: Can someone please tell me what the Download URL Manager function is all about. It's about downloading embedded images in HTML e-mails. Previously, TB never showed such images, now it gives you an option to download them or not (and it can

Download URL Manager

2009-05-28 Thread Gene Brown
Can someone please tell me what the Download URL Manager function is all about. I'm a long-time user of TB, but the first time I saw this was upon installing it on a new laptop. This window pops up when I highlight a new incoming message to read. (It has three tabs: Unresolved, Blocked, and

Periods in TB editor

2009-05-18 Thread Gene Brown
This has annoyed me for some time and I'm only now getting around to asking about it because it's not really a big deal. When composing an email message, my preference is to put two spaces after a period (full stop) in the message, but the TB editor insists on only one space. Even when I go back

Re: Periods in TB editor

2009-05-18 Thread Gene Brown
On Monday, May 18, 2009, 7:25:58 PM, Volker wrote: MicroEd? – Try Options|Preferences…|Viewer/Editor|Editor preferences: a) Disable Automatic Formatting or b) Enable Double space between sentences HTH Cheers! VA Thank you, thank you. It works. Why didn't I see this before? --

Re: One time encryption

2008-09-18 Thread Gene Brown
On Thursday, September 18, 2008, 12:37:05 PM, you wrote: Yes, anything is possible for a dedicated criminal or legal agency. My point was the physical access, which means somebody has to be there. With hacking on the internet, the criminal can be anywhere in the world. Sure, but is it worth

Re: One time encryption

2008-09-18 Thread Gene Brown
On Thursday, September 18, 2008, 8:45:11 PM, you wrote: Stealing credit card information is a million-dollar business. However, even in that business they try to be efficient. It is much more efficient to steal this information while being online than having to physically go to tap every fax

Re: One time encryption

2008-09-16 Thread Gene Brown
Hello, Jack-- On Tuesday, September 16, 2008, 1:37:33 PM, you wrote: GB Is the internet really any riskier than how I use the card every GB day? It's called Web Paranoia and it's probably completely un-justified. You're right in everything you say. Ultimately, we decided to just conduct the

Re: One time encryption

2008-09-15 Thread Gene Brown
On Monday, September 15, 2008, 4:23:31 PM, you wrote: Or am I worrying about nothing? Maybe I've naive, but I've never had a problem with doing this. If you send your credit card number to the vendor, what happens to it after that? How does the vendor secure it? When I use a credit card in a

Re: The Bat and MSGTAG

2008-07-27 Thread Gene Brown
On Sunday, July 27, 2008, 1:41:06 PM, you wrote: But registered allows you to prove the addressee received the item. Actually, it doesn't. All it shows is that they received the package. Here's today's mail, Ma'am. And look at that funny cartoon that came as a registered letter. -- Running

Can't See Sent Mail

2007-11-28 Thread Gene Brown
Problem solved. I saved all the mail in the folder, deleted the folder, created a new one with a slightly different name, then replaced all the saved mail. Now it's working fine. Still don't know what the problem was, but it's fixed. -- Running The Bat! version 3.99.24 under Windows XP

Can't See Sent Mail

2007-11-27 Thread Gene Brown
I'm having the oddest problem with one particular mail folder. Messages from that mail address always properly find their way into the folder, but messages I send to the address do not. If I look in the Sent Mail folder, I don't see them there either. But if I do a search, there they are in

Re: Font Problem

2007-04-13 Thread Gene Brown
On Friday, April 13, 2007, 11:44:07 AM, you wrote: I tried that and nothing changed. Both Quotation (Odd) and Quotation (Even) have the same setting as everything else. I even tried changing the font size and then changing it back. Any other hints? Maybe you're using the wrong viewer (plain

Font Problem

2007-04-12 Thread Gene Brown
After using TB for so many years, I'm almost embarrassed to ask this question because I should know how to fix it. After a major hard drive crash and reinstalling WinXP , I now have a minor problem with how messages are displayed. Any messages with a quote in them have the quote displayed in

Re: Font Problem

2007-04-12 Thread Gene Brown
On Thursday, April 12, 2007, 5:53:41 PM, Urban wrote: This is disconcerting to me and I'd like to have everything in the same size font. How can I fix this? Options - Preferences - Viewer/Editor. It's either under Plain Text/MicroEd or HTML/Windows Editor, item names are Quotation and

Re: Font Problem

2007-04-12 Thread Gene Brown
On Thursday, April 12, 2007, 5:53:41 PM, Urban wrote: Options - Preferences - Viewer/Editor. It's either under Plain Text/MicroEd or HTML/Windows Editor This may have solved the problem. After changing back and forth a few times and then re-booting, things seem to be okay. Thanks. --

Re: How to see a raw message?

2005-12-09 Thread Gene Brown
This is kind of a simple idea--and it may not even apply, depending on the format the message was sent in. But is it possible that the sender used that old scam of putting white text on a white background so it's not visible on the screen?

Re: How do you get decent support out of

2005-01-08 Thread Gene Brown
On Saturday, January 8, 2005, at 11:46 AM, Thomas wrote: As you know, resistance is futile. ;-) All your base are belong to us! -- Using The Bat! version 3.0.1.33, Under Windows XP 5.1, Build 2600, Service Pack 2 Current version is 3.0.1.33 |

Re: Spam Filtering

2004-05-21 Thread Gene Brown
So, what do those choices about Average, Maximal and Minimal really mean? Average of what? Minimal of what? -- Using The Bat! Version 2.10.03 under Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1 Current version is 2.10.03 | 'Using TBUDL'

Spam Filtering

2004-05-20 Thread Gene Brown
A few days ago someone had a question about spam filtering problems but it drifted off into a conversation about untrimmed replies, so I thought I'd raise it again. BayesIT had been working pretty well for me up until upgrading to the current TB version with the built-in plug-in. I tried to

Re: Make it STOP!!

2003-12-30 Thread Gene Brown
On Tuesday, December 30, 2003, 2:57:33 PM, you wrote: S Is there any way to make the Connection Center take a break, not check email, S like have a toggle button somewhere A couple things come to mind that might do something like what you're after. If you have the TB accounts set up to check

Glyphs won't change

2003-10-20 Thread Gene Brown
Odd little problem with my glyphs. When I upgraded to 2.0 the glyphs didn't change, even though the splash logo did. I moved up to 2.01, but still no change. I didn't think much of it until there was a discussion here of alternate glyph collections and I thought I might try something different.

Re: Glyphs won't change

2003-10-20 Thread Gene Brown
Monday, October 20, 2003, 11:03:22 AM, Mark wrote: MP Could it be that in the one that didn't change, you did not check High MP colour images on the Options/Preferences/General Tab? H... Could be. sheepish grin Thanks, Mark. -- Using The Bat! Version 2.01 under Windows XP 5.1 Build

Re: Scanner and the Bat

2002-12-08 Thread Gene Brown
Sunday, December 8, 2002, 7:27:37 AM, you wrote: JL incidently, it dosen't see photoshop 7 either!!! Good buy huh! Actually, I like the Visioneer OneTouch. You can get scanners with better resolution for the price, but the overall setup is something I find very nice--and worth the trade-off.

Lost Windows Task Bar

2002-06-29 Thread Gene Brown
After reinstalling The Bat! following a major hard drive disaster, I discovered that when TB loads, I lose my Windows Task Bar (the bar along the bottom of the screen that shows what programs are open or loaded). If I minimize TB from the main screen then restore it, it comes back with the bar

Problem Exporting AD

2001-02-09 Thread Gene Brown
I keep two separate address books--one has two sub-ADs and the other has three. If I want to print out a hard copy of one of the sub-ADs, there's no problem; it's very straightforward. But if I want to copy a sub-AD to a file as plain text, I run into a problem. There's no "print to file"

Restoring Deleted Messages

2000-08-25 Thread Gene Brown
Sometimes I delete a message from a folder that I'd later like to restore. Once I find the message in Browse Deleted Files, I don't see an easy way to restore it to its original folder. What I do is move it to some other folder (like Inbox) then move it again to the folder it was originally

Re: Fwd: Re: TheBat and Spam

2000-08-25 Thread Gene Brown
On Friday, August 25, 2000, Steve wrote: Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 14:55:20 -0700 From: Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: TheBat and Spam -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday, August 24, 2000, 3:49:00 PM, A wrote: - Filter rules for messages from news

Newbie with Address Book Problem

2000-05-25 Thread Gene Brown
Last week I sent this message but never got a response from any of the group members here. Is it a goofy question? Has it been asked and answered a million times already? Is it not clear what my question is? Is this a bug, a "feature" or am I doing something wrong? I have my address books

Newbie with Address Book Problem

2000-05-20 Thread Gene Brown
Is this a bug, a "feature" or am I doing something wrong? I have my address books set up to sort by last name. This works just fine when I call up the addresses from the main screen. But if I first click on the icon to start a new message, and *then* call up the address book, it displays them

Please Help a Newbie

2000-04-29 Thread Gene Brown
I'm finally getting out of Outlook Express (thank the gods!) and into The Bat!, but I'm having a problem importing my old folders. The Import Wizard did a partial job but doesn't recognize many of the old folders (in two different accounts, I might add). How can I do this manually? A second