Until recently I used The Bat solely to access my mails via POP3. I loved it! Since I am now working on several machines I would like to use the extra features of the IMAP protocol (synchronization benefits). All I can say so far is that TB's current IMAP support is too deficient to be practically used. I don't even know where to start pointing out problems there. Some experiences in random order: I choose Account "Dispatch Mail on Server->All Messages. Here I find the "Mailbox controller" where I am supposed to direct the IMAP folders to local TB folders. Well... with INBOX->Inbox receiving mails works fine, though with SENT->Sent I don't receive any mails, even though the IMAP SENT folder contains mails with the "receive" attribute. Even worse, when I add/delete folders in the mailbox controller (alas I wonder what it does really "control") the view is not updated, even not when I do "refresh status". To make things horrendous, having deleted a IMAP folder, and then trying to receive mails again from TB makes TB crash. Why? Because it still tries to connect to the non-existing IMAP folder. It quits with an exception faults. A quick look in the mail-setup path reveals that there is a little text file called ACCOUNT.IMP which still contained the IMAP folder that I thought to have prior deleted in the mailbox controller. Editing this file by hand still led to a crash when I attempted to receive mails. Only after I deleted another file, ACCOUNT.M_R which contained two lines, first line the folder name of the folder that I deleted, and second line an ascii "0", TB was able to receive INBOX mails without a crash. Another limitation is that TB seemingly only wants to download mails with the "receive" attribute. There is no way to force it to download mails with the "read" attribute by default (e.g. in the account properties), only the cumbersome way through the Message Dispatcher and every time manually (!) changing the Message flags to "receive" allows me to download those mail. Now, this is really stupid speaking of synchronization. If I have downloaded mail from one computer via IMAP protolcol and read it there, the mail is set to "read". Downloading this mail to my second computer doesn't work then because TB ignored mails with the "read" flag by default. Ideally, to synchronize mails, one should be able to: 1) access the IMAP folder INBOX from computer A. Mails sent from computer A should be stored in IMAP folder SENT. This computer A is accessed occasionally, e.g. only on work. 2) access the IMAP folder INBOX from computer B. This is my computer at home where I actually want to keep my mails. Here I also want to be able to download those mails that where already read by computer A (hence have the "read" flag). Furthermore, there should be an option that on this computer the downloaded mails can be erased from the IMAP folder since no further synchronization to another computer would be necessary. Ok after the long talk, here is my quick & dirty solution: Though there are many features I will miss from using TB (I have happily used TB for over half a year), I cannot accept its limited & buggy IMAP implementation -- and am thus forced to switch over to M$ Outlook, which flawlessly offers the kind of IMAP synchronization I was earlier speaking of. A disappointed ex-TB user. -- ______________________________________________________ Archives : <http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com> Moderators : <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> TBTech List: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You are subscribed as : archive@jab.org
