Re[3]: The List and Dialog

2005-02-03 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Hello Barry, Thursday, February 3, 2005, 8:26:30 AM, you wrote: BH> Hello daRkSidE, BH> Wednesday, February 2, 2005, 12:45:13 PM, you wrote: d>> In data Wed, 2 Feb 2005 10:39:14 +, Barry Higginbottom ha scritto: >>> Roelof kindly responded so I replied to hi

Re[2]: The List and Dialog

2005-02-03 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Hello daRkSidE, Wednesday, February 2, 2005, 12:45:13 PM, you wrote: d> In data Wed, 2 Feb 2005 10:39:14 +0000, Barry Higginbottom ha scritto: >> Roelof kindly responded so I replied to him and the rest of the >> newsgroup using my client (Dialog) but the repl

The List and Dialog

2005-02-02 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Dear TB Users I prefer to use Dialog to follow newsgroups and use the Gmane server for the The Bat lists. This morning I noticed that I couldn't post so I sent a message via TB. Roelof kindly responded so I replied to him and the rest of the newsgroup using my clien

Anti-Spam Plugins?

2005-02-02 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Dear TB Users I've been using TB for about three years now and I'm very happy with the product, it has some great features. Like a lot of people I suffer from the scourge of SPAM and get about 200 a day and I have been using Mailwasher Pro with quite good success. But, my biggest gripe is that i

GMane where are you?

2004-03-10 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Dear TB Users OK. I know I'm a bit slow on the uptake sometimes. But for the life of me I can't find the TBUDL news feed on GMane anywhere! I've downloaded all the grouplists from the news.gmane.org server but there's no sign of anything to do with TheBat. Any sug

Animated Icon isn't

2004-03-06 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Dear TB Users I have noticed that my 'Animated Icon for unread mail' is no longer animated. It flashes between the normal icon and a black square. Can anyone else verify this behaviour? I am on 2.04.7 -- Best regards Barry Using TB version 2.04.7 __

[OT] Connection reset by Peer?

2004-03-03 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Dear TB Users I have an irritating problem that I can't get to the bottom of. I know this is somewhat OT but is does concern my usage of TB. Feel free to respond via e-mail if you like, rather than clog up the mailing list. In my office I have three networked PCs, I conn

Re[2]: Archiving again!

2003-11-16 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Hello Frank, Saturday, November 15, 2003, 2:10:59 PM, you wrote: FJdB> I got the same thing and I've fiddled around a little. I got rid FJdB> off the error message by also specifying a valid folder name in FJdB> the normal deletion field. FJdB> This allowed me to close the window without error m

Archiving again!

2003-11-15 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Dear TB Users I'm trying to set up an automatic archiving routine that moves messages from my Inbox to my Archives\Kentra folder I can set up Inbox Properties to: "Remove Old Messages" after 30 days I am trying to setup the alternative deletion method to purge mess

Connection Center Confusion?

2003-11-07 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Dear TB Users I have recently upgraded to V2.01.3 from 1.62r With 1.62r my connection speed as reported by the connection centre was around 2000 cps With V2 I am now getting up to 1 cps! Is this more efficient coding on V2.0 or is it lying to me! :>) I use a s

Re[2]: Version 2 Observation

2003-10-20 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Hello Marck, Sunday, October 19, 2003, 5:30:57 PM, you wrote: BH>> Is TB2 really this flaky? MDP> No. 1.62 was and it left your folders in that state. Now you've MDP> fixed them they'll stay straight. Thanks, I must say that since repairing the folders, etc. everything now seems OK.

Version 2 Observation

2003-10-19 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Dear TB Users OK, my curiosity got the better of me and I've upgraded to version 2! I'd stuck with 1.62 because of the apparent folder problems with 1.63 on, but I thought that would have been fixed by now. :>( Two days in and TB has just lost half my folders and screwed

Re[2]: This blasted Swen Virus!!

2003-10-13 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Hello Carsten, Monday, October 13, 2003, 10:08:23 AM, you wrote: >> can't we do the same with TB's Selective Download? CT> Last but not least it is a command line tool, so you can run it CT> regularly (via an other's machine cron job, if you don't have a CT> flatrate). I've found a Windows

This blasted Swen Virus!!

2003-10-12 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Dear TB Users This blasted Swen virus is getting me down. Every day I am getting about 150 Swen emails, some with the attachment, some not. I guess these have been filtered by other systems. On my dial up connection this is a real pain when faced with a session download a

Re[2]: Detecting HTML Spam

2003-06-26 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Hello Geoff, Thursday, June 26, 2003, 3:09:54 PM, you wrote: GL> Perhaps I'll look at POPFile -- but I have enough already in the chain GL> between the outside World and my inbox and would rather tackle this GL> irritation in TB if possible. I'm a newbie to this spam filtering lark, but I h

Re[3]: The Bat! Hanging on 2nd/3rd E-mail?

2003-06-24 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Hello Wilfried, Saturday, June 21, 2003, 7:21:28 PM, you wrote: WM> You right, but still it can maybe help Patricia and Barry. I assume it logs WM> (winsock) errors (if there are). Does it not ? The saga continues This morning my mailbox contained 84 messages and stalled at

Re[2]: The Bat! Hanging on 2nd/3rd E-mail?

2003-06-21 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Hello Patricia, Friday, June 20, 2003, 6:08:54 PM, you wrote: S> It hangs for awhile, like a long while, but when I abort and redo S> it, it loads mail just fine. Or if I let it set for awhile, it S> finally gets it's act together and DL's all the mail. When I had OE S> with this mail account, it

Re[6]: Get New Mail Hang

2003-05-28 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Hello Joe, Wednesday, May 28, 2003, 4:17:29 AM, you wrote: >>Joe, I doubt we're the only 2 experiencing this. Happens to me also, fairly regularly. -- Best regards Barry Using TB version 1.62r Current version is 1.62r | "Using TBUDL" inf

Re[2]: Synchronising?

2003-04-03 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Hello Jeanny, Thursday, April 3, 2003, 8:36:36 PM, you wrote: JH> 1. I started with the laptop, clicked on Tools > Synchronise, then JH> chose Step 1 and created the .TB1 file, which I burned onto a CD. JH> 2. I put the CD into the desktop and ran Step 2, creating the .TB2 JH> file, which I bur

Synchronising?

2003-04-03 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Dear TB Users OK, I know, I'm thick! I can't seem to grasp the logic of the synchronisation procedure. I have set up TB on my laptop and would like to synch between that and my PC. Can someone explain in easy steps how to carry out a synch between the two machines

Contacts with multiple email addresses

2003-03-25 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Dear TB Users I have a few colleagues who have multiple e-mail addresses, e.g. business and personal. If I put both e-mail adresses into one qddress book entry and then create a new e-mail from the address book entry then I get a message sent to both addresses. Is i

Re[2]: Problem with large file attachments?

2003-03-21 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Hello Peter, Friday, March 21, 2003, 7:47:49 AM, you wrote: PP> Hello Mike, PP> On Friday, March 21, 2003 at 3:21:52 AM you [MA]wrote (at least in PP> part): BH>>> OK, I use AVG to scan incoming mail so that's easy to disable and BH>>> Outpost for the firewall. I think I'll try switching off Ou

Re[2]: Problem with large file attachments?

2003-03-20 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Hello Roelof, Wednesday, March 19, 2003, 2:12:01 PM, you wrote: RO> Not sure how honest your ISP is, but it might be the combination RO> of their server and TB. It might be a firewall or virusscanner on RO> your side (try to disable those). OK, I use AVG to scan incoming mail so that's easy to d

Problem with large file attachments?

2003-03-19 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Dear TB Users I have a recent problem downloading mail with large file attachments. For instance this morning we have an email on our ISP's server with a 3Mb attachment. If I try to download this with TB at or around 400k the transfer 'stalls' and just sits there. A

Re[2]: Macros and MAPI

2003-02-21 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Hello Allie, Thursday, February 20, 2003, 12:29:37 PM, you wrote: AM> You should be getting a message without templates applied. If AM> templates are being applied, this means that you aren't really using AM> MAPI when generating the message but just a mailto: URL. AM> In order t

Re[2]: Macros and MAPI

2003-02-20 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Hello Allie, Thursday, February 20, 2003, 10:42:24 AM, you wrote: AM> | The problem is that the text of the message is already pre-set by the AM> | calling program - this is a MAPI specific feature :-) Not only AM> | Explorer uses that MAPI call, so nothing can be do to introduce AM> | template

Macros and MAPI

2003-02-20 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Dear TB Users I have noticed that if I use an applications "Send Mail" command (usually found in the File menu) then some macros don't appear to work. I have a new mail template set up which uses %TOFNAME and %CURSOR. In normal operation, say creating a mail from th

SMTP Authentification

2003-02-13 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Dear TB Users I am changing my email account with my ISP. The new account when used with OE requires the "My server requires authentification" checkbox to be checked. What is the equivalent setting in TB? There seem to be so many settings I don't know which to tick! --

Character Set Choice

2003-02-12 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Dear The Can someone tell me how does one choose the correct character set. I am UK based so do I choose 1250 Central European? Does the character set help to display the correct characters for a given region? For example, here in the UK for a email to another UK user, h

Re: Lost Admin Rights

2003-01-14 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Hello Ed, Monday, January 13, 2003, 10:47:37 PM, you wrote: EF> Q1: I've lost admin rights to User1 after setting up User2 as a EF> User. No admins, both users...is there a way to manually change a User EF> to an Administrator short of reinstalling? This is a known bug. I have sent in a bug re

Re[3]: Lost Default User in Network Priviledges (Follow Up)

2003-01-11 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Hello everyone, There is a definite repeatable problem with my copy of TB1.61 I have tried it on two different machines with the same result on both. I have prepared a detailed bug report and sent it on, details follow for those interested: The bug description: Loss of Default User in Ne

Re[2]: Lost Default User in Network Priviledges

2003-01-10 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Hello Roelof, Friday, January 10, 2003, 12:56:04 PM, you wrote: RO> I've wondered about that userdept.ini file of yours. It doesn't exist RO> here, but the contents of that file of yours are the same as the RO> register entry: HKCU\Software\RIT\The Bat!\Users Depot\ RO> So your problems might poi

Lost Default User in Network Priviledges

2003-01-10 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Dear All I recently started a thread about TB and Simple Mapi which I got sorted (thanks everyone) but that brought to light another problem with user privileges which I thought was down to a problem with the userdept.ini file. (I wish!) It wasn't, and the problem has res

Re[2]: TB and simple MAPI (follow up)

2003-01-09 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Hello Thomas, Thursday, January 9, 2003, 4:16:51 AM, you wrote: TF> Since TB writes the Default into the registry but cannot read it TF> itself at a later date, there is an internal inconsistency which TF> leads to the apparent loss (at least in the user interface) of one TF> account; the most im

Re[2]: TB and simple MAPI

2003-01-08 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Hello Peter, Wednesday, January 8, 2003, 12:54:44 PM, you wrote: PP> first let me thank you for your private mail, but it ain't PP> necessary sending me that one. I'm reading the list and I don't It was a spot of finger trouble, not intended, didn't realise until it had gone! PP> I guess you'll

Re[3]: TB and simple MAPI (follow up)

2003-01-08 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Hello Barry, Wednesday, January 8, 2003, 9:19:43 AM, you wrote: BH> Well done that man! BH> Exactly the problem (?) BH> One day I'll take the trouble to get to grips with TB and local BH> networks, but for now it'll have to wait. Following on, I was playing around with groups and privileges an

Re[2]: TB and simple MAPI

2003-01-08 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Hello Peter, Tuesday, January 7, 2003, 6:37:14 PM, you wrote: PP> No, it ain't. As long as at least one account is configured to be a PP> "User" (in opposite to "Administrator") The Bat! prompts for a login. PP> Go to "Options" / "Network & Administration" / "Privileges" and set all PP> accounts

Re[2]: Retrieving Hotmail in The Bat!

2003-01-07 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Hello Granville, Tuesday, January 7, 2003, 10:00:16 AM, you wrote: GC> could you tell me which is the most suitable programme for GC> retrieving Hotmail into The Bat! For myself I use Hotmail Popper, works well and its free. http://www.boolean.ca/hotpop -- Best regards, Barry

Re[2]: TB and simple MAPI

2003-01-07 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Hello Feli, Tuesday, January 7, 2003, 9:54:35 AM, you wrote: FW> go to the account properties and check 'this account is the default FW> for "mailto:"; URLs' Tried that, doesn't make any difference. :>( If I run TB from the Start Menu it will prompt me for User Name and Password. I have a desk

TB and simple MAPI

2003-01-07 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Dear All I have installed TB with simple MAPI and it works quite well. When I click on "Send Mail" in another program although TB starts OK it always prompts me for a user name and password. I have 5 different email accounts set up but I only use one on a regular basis.

Re[2]: Prohibit Attachments?

2002-12-06 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Hello Ming-Li, Thursday, December 5, 2002, 5:44:54 PM, you wrote: ML> Ah-ha, the error message prompted to check "Network & ML> Administration" under the Options menu. Under the "Privileges" ML> pane, if an account is defined as a "user" (rather than an ML> administrator), his/her ability to send

Re[2]: Prohibit Attachments?

2002-12-05 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Hello Ming-Li, Thursday, December 5, 2002, 3:12:53 PM, you wrote: ML> Maybe the file you're trying to attach is currently open (in use ML> by another program) and TB couldn't access it. It should be easy ML> to check by trying another file. Nope, tried sending several emails all with different a

Prohibit Attachments?

2002-12-05 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Hello, I don't know how but I've managed to set one of my accounts to prohibit attachments. At first I thought it was my ISP, but it appears that the outgoing mail with attachment is being blocked by TB but I can't find an option anywhere to implement that. I can send fine from my ot

Bounced Messages

2002-11-07 Thread Barry Higginbottom
eceived: from unknown (HELO 212.248.130.36) (212.248.130.36) by 0 with SMTP; 7 Nov 2002 12:49:16 - Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 11:04:38 + From: Barry Higginbottom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.61) Business Reply-To: Barry Higginbottom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: Mu

Multiple Bat users on one PC?

2002-10-25 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Hello, I would like to set up TB on one PC to have two users. Each user to have different email accounts and dialups. I must be a bit slow today 'cos I've read the help file twice and it doesn't make sense to me. On boring OE it was easy, I just added a new identity. It *seem

Re[2]: Filtering Previously Read Mail

2002-09-02 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Hello Sudip, Monday, September 2, 2002, 4:32:23 PM, you wrote: SP> You don't have to. Just check the option "Remove old messages" on exit SP> and it is done automatically whenever you exit TB! SP> If you check "compress folder" on exit, then the messages are SP> automatically removed from the m

Re[2]: Filtering Previously Read Mail

2002-09-02 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Hello Sudip, Monday, September 2, 2002, 10:26:43 AM, you wrote: SP> Why can't you use the Folder setting, "keep messages in the base for n SP> number of days"? I thought this was the answer, but it seems I have to remember to 'Purge' the folder for this option to work. I was looking for someth

Re[2]: Filtering Previously Read Mail

2002-09-02 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Hello Sudip, Monday, September 2, 2002, 10:26:43 AM, you wrote: SP> Why can't you use the Folder setting, "keep messages in the base for n SP> number of days"? Wood and Trees? Thanks Sudip -- Best regards, Barrymailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Filtering Previously Read Mail

2002-09-02 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Hello All, I have set up a filter on 'Read' mail in my 'TBUDL' folder to move messages to my 'Trash' folder that are older than 14 days and are not parked. The only way this filter works is for me to invoke it manually by selecting 'Re-filter Messages'. It doesn't work automatical

Archive Message Folder by Age of Message

2002-08-09 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Hello TBUDL, I would like to archive messages from my TBUDL folder based on the age of the mesages, e.g. older than 30 days. I've tried to use a filter but only succeeded in deleting all my messages in every folder older than 30 days! (thank goodness for tape backups, phew!) Can any

Re[2]: Component Loading ZAP 3.0.133 Alert /NAV 2002/TB!

2002-07-12 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Hello Greg, Friday, July 12, 2002, 3:01:43 PM, you wrote: GS> Hello Barry, GS> Friday, July 12, 2002, 3:25:19 AM, you wrote: BH>> I was trying a 'demo' version of NAV and had the same problem you BH>> describe but with version 3.0.118! GS> What OS do you use? That was with W98SE with IE5.5

Re: Component Loading ZAP 3.0.133 Alert /NAV 2002/TB!

2002-07-12 Thread Barry Higginbottom
Hello Greg, Friday, July 12, 2002, 4:21:44 AM, you wrote: GS> Hello TBUDL, GS> I receive a "Component Loading" alert for NAVAPW32.EXE with the ZAP GS> 3.0.133 on connection for email messages. I have since restored OS GS> partition to old ZAP 3.0.118 and the alert does NOT occur. GS> Anyone el