Re: Using TB from work and home

2008-07-18 Thread Alto Speckhardt
Hi Günter, That makes some sense if I understand it correctly: with IMAP, the folder structure moves from the local computer to the server Theoretically, the other way around: What is on the server will be seen by the client, by any client. Of course, you use the client to create and move

Re: Using TB from work and home

2008-07-18 Thread Alto Speckhardt
Guten Tag Bob Riley, Then at the end of the article, it says this about TB!: There are currently no known troubleshooting issues with this client. You know that this is not true. TheBat IMAP _is_ a troubleshooting issue to begin with. Even the developers admit that the system is rotten from

Re: Using TB from work and home

2008-07-18 Thread Bob Riley
Hi Alto, On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 10:11 +0200, you wrote: Guten Tag Bob Riley, Then at the end of the article, it says this about TB!: There are currently no known troubleshooting issues with this client. I was merely quoting the above from the fastmail.fm mail client setup:

Re: Using TB from work and home

2008-07-18 Thread Marek Mikus
Hello all, Friday, July 18, 2008, Bob Riley wrote: I was merely quoting the above from the fastmail.fm mail client setup: http://www.fastmail.fm/docs/imap/thebat.htm On the above page is this: The Bat! is an excellent POP client, but its IMAP support is currently extremely limited. If you

Re: Using TB from work and home

2008-07-18 Thread Dwight A Corrin
On Friday, July 18, 2008, 12:49:34 PM, Bob Riley wrote: I would love to use TB for IMAP but won't until you more knowledgeable people say TB is very practical in IMAP. I would be interested to know what features I am missing. I too tried lots of those other mailers, such as thunderbird,

Re: Using TB from work and home

2008-07-17 Thread Alto Speckhardt
Hi Günter, I'm looking for the best way to achieve the above, i.e. having the entire message base (something like 70,000 messages) available at both locations. Just use IMAP instead of POP. Keep in mind that TheBat's IMAP is quite buggy at the moment though, so you might want to wait (and

Re: Using TB from work and home

2008-07-17 Thread Alto Speckhardt
Hi, IMAP is no option, my email provider doesn't support it. Well - it is what you are looking for. Go figure. ;-) Should you lose the flash-drive, you lose only a cheap memory device, but all the information will still be present in a backup file on one of your computers. Restoring the

Re: Using TB from work and home

2008-07-17 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Günter, On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:37:46 +1000 GMT (17/07/2008, 12:37 +0700 GMT), Günter Minnerup wrote: GM I'm looking for the best way to achieve the above, i.e. having the GM entire message base (something like 70,000 messages) available at both GM locations. This is what I have! The whole

Re: Using TB from work and home

2008-07-17 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Günter, On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:22:06 +1000 GMT (17/07/2008, 20:22 +0700 GMT), Günter Minnerup wrote: GM Sure, that keeps the message base available on both computers. But it GM also means that you have to plough through all incoming messages twice GM as they are downloaded to the other

Re: Using TB from work and home

2008-07-17 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Stuart, On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:29:36 -0500 GMT (17/07/2008, 20:29 +0700 GMT), Stuart Cuddy wrote: [IMAP] SC As far as quota on the server you may have to create an archive for older SC messages and then copy your old messages to the archive on both computers and SC then delete them off

Re: Using TB from work and home

2008-07-17 Thread Alto Speckhardt
Hello Günter, As it turns out, IMAP is an option after all... But as it is impractical to keep my entire message base on the server, does IMAP allow me to: - download messages to both computers With IMAP you're not supposed to download anything. You only have one message base (on the IMAP

Re: Using TB from work and home

2008-07-17 Thread Dwight A Corrin
On Thursday, July 17, 2008, 8:55:40 AM, Günter Minnerup wrote: Can't I just set it to delete (from the server) messages older then 7 days automatically, given that I have all messages on both computers as local copies? as long as you check mail with both computers within that timeframe.

Re: Using TB from work and home

2008-07-17 Thread Dwight A Corrin
On Thursday, July 17, 2008, 8:51:50 AM, Günter Minnerup wrote: - set TB! to delete message from the server periodically (say, every week, to stay within the quota) I have a dummy account for archiving on my desktop, which is password protected so that it doesn't regularly get in the way and TB

Re: Using TB from work and home

2008-07-17 Thread Bob Riley
Hi Everyone, On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 09:56 +0200, Alto wrote: Hi Günter, I'm looking for the best way to achieve the above, i.e. having the entire message base (something like 70,000 messages) available at both locations. Just use IMAP instead of POP. Keep in mind that TheBat's IMAP is

Re: Using TB from work and home

2008-07-17 Thread Dwight Corrin
On Thursday, July 17, 2008, 12:09:58 PM, Bob Riley wrote: They do say, unlike what I hear in our TB newsgroups, that TB has no reported issues with their IMAP. I am very happy with the combination of fastmail and thebat, although I will be even happier when a few niggling issues are addressed

Re: Using TB from work and home

2008-07-17 Thread Bob Riley
Hi Everyone, On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 12:38 -0500, Dwight Corrin wrote: On Thursday, July 17, 2008, 12:09:58 PM, Bob Riley wrote: They do say, unlike what I hear in our TB newsgroups, that TB has no reported issues with their IMAP. I am very happy with the combination of fastmail and

Re: Using TB from work and home

2008-07-17 Thread Dwight Corrin
On Thursday, July 17, 2008, 9:46:43 PM, Günter Minnerup wrote: I have such an archive account already, to keep my POP3 message base manageable. So what you're saying is simply move everything beyond the server quota into the archive account? exactly -- Dwight A. Corrin 316.303.9385 phone

Re: Using TB from work and home

2008-07-17 Thread Dwight Corrin
On Thursday, July 17, 2008, 9:39:12 PM, Günter Minnerup wrote: and all of TB's filtering of the inbox to the folders therefore takes place at server level? actually, you make use of the IMAP filters. This works better than filtering locally, because otherwise, sometimes you are filtering with