Re: Why do people stick to The Bat! when they switch to Linux?

2012-07-01 Thread MFPA
Hi On Saturday 30 June 2012 at 6:05:28 PM, in mid:57965611.20120630120...@jimkyle.com, Jim Kyle wrote: Thursday, June 28, 2012, 3:27:23 PM, you wrote: Are such mail clients really so poor as to merit keeping a Windows client on a Linux machine? I've not tried any of them, but for some 4

Re: Why do people stick to The Bat! when they switch to Linux?

2012-07-01 Thread MAU
Hello MFPA, and use it primarily for newsgroups Yes, Newsgroups was always something TB! didn't do without some form of Mail-to-News gateway. But it is a mail client not a news client. And I use mailing lists much more than newsgroups - an occasional visit to a web interface to read a

Re: Why do people stick to The Bat! when they switch to Linux?

2012-07-01 Thread Jim Kyle
Sunday, July 1, 2012, 10:19:26 AM, you wrote: I'm not convinced it *really* is more convoluted to copy/paste across your LAN than to run a Windows email client in a virtual machine on a Linux box. (-; Put that way, you're right. However I set up Tbird initially to follow one semi-private

confirmation receipts

2012-07-01 Thread Achdut18
Hi, all, Does The Bat have a functionality that allows a sender of a message to receive automatic confirmation that the recipient has opened the message? I will occasionally receive in Outlook e-mail from colleagues, that, when opened, also opens up a pop-up dialogue box that asks me if I want

Re: confirmation receipts

2012-07-01 Thread Paul Berger
Hello TBUDL@thebat., Monday, July 2, 2012, 2:13:18 PM, you wrote: A Hi, all, A Does The Bat have a functionality that allows a sender of a message A to receive automatic confirmation that the recipient has opened the A message? A I will occasionally receive in Outlook e-mail from colleagues,

Re: confirmation receipts

2012-07-01 Thread Jack S. LaRosa
Hello Achdut18, On Sunday, July 01, 2012 you wrote: A Hi, all, A Does The Bat have a functionality that allows a sender of a message A to receive automatic confirmation that the recipient has opened the A message? A I will occasionally receive in Outlook e-mail from colleagues, that, A when