Re[2]: Forcing viewed messages to wrap
Peter wrote: If any Outlook (or even Lotus Notes) user simply is not educated enough to follow me and argues: But it's all fine over here. I can't to anything. I don't want to make a screen shot every time to prove, I don't want to waste my time 10 time as much with arguing than simply ignoring (damn ... is this an English sentence? I'm somehow 'slow in mind' today). For what it's worth, I asked my colleagues using Outlook at our main office whether they could please set a line length in the 70-80 character range. I discovered (and verified for myself using PC Anywhere) that their version of Outlook does not allow the user to specify a line length in HTML, rich text, or plain text mode. So while the user might wish to accommodate you, in many cases they simply can't. Unless there's some other way to do this in Outlook other than the way it works on my version of Outlook (in Office 2000). -- Andrea Z., using TB! 1.60q with Win2k ver. 5.0, Build 2195, SP 2 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Current version is 1.61 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re[3]: mail to problems
Mark Wieder writes: MW I've got this one narrowed down now. I was having the same MW symptoms: the first whitespace character acted as an end-of-text MW delimiter. I don't have a default email handler set, so I had to MW go into TB's menus (Options | Preferences | Applications) and MW check the box for allowing TB to be the default mail handler...but MW it wasn't working. MW Then...after launching IE (5.01 if you really have to know) I set it's MW options (Tools | Internet Options | Programs | E-mail) to set TB to be MW the mail handler. Bingo! Up popped the whole stream. Worked for MW Netscape, too. MW I'm not sure if this should be written up as a bug against The Bat! MW for not completely setting everything that needs to be set for it to MW be the default mail handler, and I certainly don't feel the MW inclination to go waltzing through the registry and figure out what MW changed, but at least I found a solution for the problem - set the MW options in your web browser, then try it. I was having problems with mailto: clicks (in IE 6) spawning a mad rush of e-mail and error windows (50 or 60 at a time) rather than a single compose message window in TB!, even though I had TB! designated as the default mail handler in IE, as Mark describes here. After reading some of the discussion on this topic, I went back to the Internet Options screen, designated something else as the default mail handler, clicked Apply, then designated TB! again and clicked Apply. Voila. That worked. I don't know why, but redoing what I had already done solved the problem. Guess the message here is, even if you have things set the way you want them to be and they aren't working right, set something else up, then reset them the way you want them. -- Andrea Z. in not-so-steamy Kansas, using TB! 1.60q with Win2k ver 5.0, Build 2195, SP2 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Current Ver: 1.60q FAQ: http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug Reports: https://www.ritlabs.com/bt/
Re: Addressing/autocomplete wish wrapped to next line
Monday, June 24, 2002, 3:01:33 PM, Rick Reumann wrote: RR On the topic of auto-complete one other thing I find a bit of a RR nuisance. I love being able to start out addressing the to field by RR starting to type the name and then using CTRL-+ to autocomplete. The RR problem is as I start to get near the end of the line you can't really RR see what you are autocompleting as it is hidden off the address field. RR So I then have to open up the address book icon and make sure I picked RR the right one and if I didn't I have to go grab the correct one from RR the address book. It would be nice if I could just keep adding and RR autocompleting addresses on the TO line without having to physically RR go up to the line and hit end and make sure I picked the correct RR one. If it just wrapped onto a new line it would be perfect. RR Has anyone else run into this issue? or is it just me? Maybe everyone RR else completes their to field in a quicker way. If so I'd be RR interested in hearing how to best use the Bat's features for RR addressing. Yes, I have run into that, and it annoys me as well. Something else that annoys me is that when an address does autocomplete, it stays highlighted, so I have to click to the end of the line and then type my comma separating it from the next address. If I forget to click to the end of the line, my comma overwrites the highlighted address, and I have to start over. Am I missing something obvious about using this feature more efficiently without having to go from keyboard to mouse and back again? Andrea in Kansas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | using TB! 1.60q Current Ver: 1.60q FAQ: http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug Reports: https://www.ritlabs.com/bt/
Re[3]: 1.60m - State of the art?
Thanks, guys! I thought I'd posted a message reporting my success when I followed Marck and Bill's advice, but it didn't show up. So let me just say that I deleted the address book I was using, re-exported my addresses from Outlook into a comma-delimited file (first removing all of the import/export fields except the few that I actually need), re-imported the addresses into TB!, and voila -- now the program closes politely when asked. Also, my hotkey combos (like Ctrl-Enter to send a message) work again. I appreciate the assistance very much -- thanks to all who contributed to the solution. Andrea in Kansas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thursday, May 30, 2002, 7:51:25 PM, Bill wrote: BBTE I had a reason to do this a week or two and I eventually got it BBTE to work with only minimal editing. The problem is that I did it BBTE so many times that I forgot how I got from one place to the BBTE other. I remember experimenting with which fields were output BBTE and what they were called when they were output. I might have BBTE taken it to or thought Netscape and at one point it was an LDIF. BBTE When I finally got the file imported, all I had to do was tinker BBTE with the groups (they didn't import at all). BBTE Sorry Andrea and Marck -- I just don't remember which steps I took or BBTE in which order. I do remember that it wasn't neat or easy. Current Ver: 1.60m FAQ: http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug Reports: https://bt.ritlabs.com
Re[2]: 1.60m - State of the art?
Hello. I posted yesterday about the fact that TB! will not close (ver. 1.60m). It's been suggested to me that it's the memory leak causing this. I do use Win2k, but I'm not using HTML view at all -- in fact, I'm using plain-text view -- and yet the problem persists. It was also suggested that I suspend automated tasks such as automatic mail checking and auto compress on exit and empty trash on exit, which I also did, but TB! still refuses to close. I also get Invalid argument to date encode messages whenever I try to cut and paste text in a message. I'm open to more suggestions... Andrea in steamy Kansas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Current Ver: 1.60m FAQ: http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug Reports: https://bt.ritlabs.com
Re[2]: 1.60m - State of the art?
Ah. It was also suggested to me (I love the passive voice!) that I try an earlier version. But when I went to the Web site, 1.60m was the only one I found available for download. This is my first run with TB! so I don't have an .exe file from an earlier version to copy in. So how would I try an earlier version? Andrea, just full of questions today | [EMAIL PROTECTED] and has never happened before. My question is, how does one revert to an earlier installation? By acquiring one and installing it over your current version. DAC actually, you don't have to 'install' anything. just copy the .exe DAC file from a previous version replacing the one for the current DAC version. Current Ver: 1.60m FAQ: http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug Reports: https://bt.ritlabs.com
Re[2]: 1.60m - State of the art?
Thanks, Marck. I migrated from Outlook, not OE, but the migration was not what I would call smooth by any means. So far the only problem I've connected with the address book import is that I can't seem to edit any address book entry that I imported. That didn't seem like a show-stopper to me. But if it's related to the failure to close down, then maybe I should do something about it. The question is, what? Re: the connection centre, I have seen no problems finding my hosts (I only use two), and there isn't a visible connection timeout problem taking place in the connection centre when I'm trying to close the program. In fact, there is nothing visible at all, which makes this persistent problem quite perplexing to me. Andrea in Kansas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thursday, May 30, 2002, 4:54:50 PM, you wrote: MDP Unlikely. It is more likely to be connected to communications MDP errors in the connection centre. If one or more hosts can't be MDP found, you have to wait for the CC to timeout to be able to exit. ... It was also suggested that I suspend automated tasks such as automatic mail checking MDP That's the one! and auto compress on exit and empty trash on exit, which I also did, but TB! still refuses to close. I also get Invalid argument to date encode messages whenever I try to cut and paste text in a message. MDP Aha! Did you migrate from OE and import the WAB? This error is MDP usually caused by importing birthdays. For some reason they MDP knacker the TB Address book. Perhaps the incomplete task is a MDP hidden error message somewhere complaining about the address book MDP date format. Current Ver: 1.60m FAQ: http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug Reports: https://bt.ritlabs.com
The Bat! will not close
Hi folks -- this is my first posting to the User Group list. I'm a newbie to your list but not to e-mail lists in general -- hope I'm doing OK so far. I just installed The Bat! ver. 1.60m and although I basically like it and think I'll keep it, I am having some rather odd problems. I checked the archives to see if these were discussed before, and although I did find a reference to the most perplexing problem, it concerned an earlier version. Basically, I can't close The Bat! without getting a series of messages telling me that the program is busy and do I want it to close when it's done? If I say yes, the cycle continues endlessly. If I say no, then I'm still not able to close the program without using Task Manager to nuke it, but then it doesn't close down properly and, for example, the trash doesn't get emptied (and goodness only knows what else doesn't happen). Another strange problem is that Ctrl-Enter, which used to send mail (during the first day or so of my use of TB!), does nothing. Neither do the other key combos I've tried (such as Alt-L to fix line breaks and wraps). I'm using Win2K Pro 5.0, Build 2195, SP 2. Can provide more details if they'd be useful. If anyone has suggestions for what might help, I'd greatly appreciate hearing from you. You can reply to me off list if this sort of thing would bore the rest of you -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Many thanks! Andrea Z. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Lawrence, KS, USA Current Ver: 1.60m FAQ: http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug Reports: https://bt.ritlabs.com
