Re: sending e-mail to a group with only group name appearing in recipient's "to" field

I think that the Mass Mailing feature was designed for this. However, it will show each recipient's address in the To: field rather than the name of the Group. I am using version 6.0.12 with an even more obsolete Help File, so your mileage may vary. :-) -- Bill McQuillan Using The Bat! 6

Re: OAUTH Grayed Out

o with it. > -- > Regards, > Jack > Central Alabama USA > The Bat! E-Mail Client by Ritlabs version 6.0.12 > Windows 10 Home Build 9200 -- Bill McQuillan Using The Bat! 6.0.12 on Windows 6.2 build 9200- Current version is

Re: Account tree font

ybody >>>> know how to do that? TF>>> Go to: Options / Preferences / Message List / Fonts. TF>>> Over here, it says Segoe UI, which is the orginal font set by Ritlabs. TF>>> Maybe this got changed unintentionally with an unknown keyboard shortcut. I think that you shoul

The Whole BODY of the Message

e content of the raw message? Thanks for your attention, -- Bill McQuillan Using The Bat! 5.8.8 on Windows 6.2 build 9200- Current version is 7.1 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html

Re: Access Violation error message

, however, upon restarting The Bat! that no data seemed to have been lost. -- Bill McQuillan Using The Bat! 5.0.20.1 on Windows 7 6.1 build 7601-Service Pack 1 Current version is 6.6 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html

Re: Voyager: desperately need a hack to associate mailto: URLs to Voyager.

ssociations tab and you should be able to set the MailTo: option and then press "Associate Now". Hope this helps. -- Bill McQuillan Using The Bat! 5.0.20.1 on Windows 7 6.1 build 7601-Service Pack 1 Current version is 6.1.8 | 

Re: 5.4 Quick Filtering

and letting it create a tab Try holding the Alt-shift while left-clicking on the particular field in the message list. (Esc to undo.) -- Bill McQuillan Using The Bat! 5.0.20.1 on Windows 7 6.1 build 7601-Service Pack 1 Current version is 5.

Re: Memo popup hotkey

int.com/msg17514.html That's it! I just put it in my personal "cheatsheet" text file. Thanks for the quick response. -- Bill McQuillan Using The Bat! 5.0.20.1 on Windows 7 6.1 build 7601-Service Pack 1 Current version is 5.2

Memo popup hotkey

I think I learned of the hotkey in an earlier version of The Bat! holp. Anybody know what I am talking about? The criminal lack of documentation for this awesomely complex mail client will probably be the ultimate reason I'll abandon it. -- Bill McQuillan Using The Bat! 5.0.20.1 on Wi

Re: Fonts et al

On Tue, 2013-04-30, Thomas Fernandez wrote: > OK, so what happens if the HTML message describes Comic Sans Serife, > and I don't have that on my computer? Does Windows - or TB! - show a > default font? Yep. -- Bill McQuillan Using The Bat! 5.0.20.1 on Windows 7 6.1 build 7601-

Re: Fonts et al

use your default san serife font). In any case once an acceptable font has been found, the size, weight, color, etc. are then applied. Hope this helps. -- Bill McQuillan Using The Bat! 5.0.20.1 on Windows 7 6.1 build 7601-Service Pack 1 Current version is 5.2.2 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html

Re: Headers in preview pane

d choose Headers -> Edit Headers and click on Received and chose Edit. -- Bill McQuillan Using The Bat! 5.0.20.1 on Windows 7 6.1 build 7601-Service Pack 1 Current version is 5.2.2 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html

Re: How to get rid of the X-Priority field

On Tue, 2012-03-13, Arjan de Groot wrote: > On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:54:04 -0700, Bill McQuillan wrote: >>I have noticed that TB puts: >> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) > >>Has anybody found a trick to get rid of this ugly field? > If you really hate this header you could

Re: How to get rid of the X-Priority field

I have previously been mocked by other participants for shortcomings in the email software I was using, so perhaps I am a bit sensitive. I am sorry that my "challenge" has sent this group off on a bit of a tangent! Thanks to all for the interest and answers. -- Bill McQuillan Using The Bat! 5.

How to get rid of the X-Priority field

ority","")%- This has no effect! It still shows up. I have a similar line to get rid of the Reply-To that TB puts in unnecessarily and that *does* work. Has anybody found a trick to get rid of this ugly field? Thanks, again, in advance. -- Bill McQuillan Using The Bat! 5.0.2

Automatic selection of viewer per folder

e changed, macros only seem to be useful during composing a new message. Thanks in Advance, -- Bill McQuillan Using The Bat! 5.0.20.1 on Windows 7 6.1 build 7601-Service Pack 1 Current version is 4.2.42 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html

Re: Managing the Column Settings in the folder contents list

olders with this setting. > Sometimes things are easier than we think. ;-) It works! Thanks! -- Bill McQuillan Using The Bat! 5.0.20.1 on Windows 7 6.1 build 7601-Service Pack 1 Current version is 4.2.42 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html

Managing the Column Settings in the folder contents list

me where this configuration is maintained? And can I just delete such a file to clear the problem? -- Bill McQuillan Using The Bat! 5.0.20.1 on Windows 7 6.1 build 7601-Service Pack 1 Current version is 4.2.42 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html

Re: The Bat! v5 Upgrade Experience

able (5.0.30) so I went to the web page and there I was presented with a choice: Professional or Home Edition? I have no idea! Checking (Help | About) says I have version 5.0.20.1 with a "single-computer licence". Does this mean I have the Home Edition? -- Bill McQuillan Us

Re: Learning to use Mail Ticker

on of the Ticker available. I would expect RitLabs to allow me to determine what is shown for each new message or even just the number of new messages, since if there are many, I have to wait an unknown amount of time to see that info. Oh well, maybe a wishlist item. Thanks for all of your assis

Learning to use Mail Ticker

square; and a letter under the Size, usually an "A" but at least once a "P". Unfortunately, the documentation is (typically) poor! Can anyone point me to better documention? Or at least tell me what these last two might mean? -- Bill McQuillan Using The Bat! 5.0.12 on Wind

Re: Problems on Windows 7

is in the "show hidden icons" area (arrow to the left of the system tray). Click on that arrow, choose Customize and find The Bat! entry. It is probably set to "Show only notifications". Change it to "show icon and notifications" to make it appear in the system tray

Re: Pictures in html?

obvious and I can find ABSOLUTELY NO DOCUMENTATION about it. So, does anybody on this list have a pointer to any documention about the Image Download Manager? -- Bill McQuillan Using The Bat! 5.0.12 on Windows 7 6.1 build 7601-Service Pack 1 Cu

Re: is v.4.2.42 truncated urls in the body?

UTF-8. Also, I noticed that anytime I tried to copy and paste the partial differential character it changed into a "?". I don't know where the corruption is occurring, but I hope this information helps. -- Bill McQuillan Using The Bat! 2.11 on Windows XP 5.1 build 2600-Servic

Re: How to copy a template

rase: %qinclude="My Template" I believe that using a blank makes it: %qinclude (which produces 'Cannot find a quick template ""') followed by: "My Template" (as just text) -- Bill McQuillan Using The Bat! 2.11 on Windows XP 5.1 build

Re: OTFE - some questions

s plug-ins. > Interesting - I'd not thought of that. Doesn't TB! need to place a > decrypted version of a file in a temp directory while actually working > with/editing it? Well, since I believe that OTFE stands for "On The Fly Encription" I imagine that whole files are no

Re: v4.0.38 question - HTML display problem

oned (www.gocomics.com) since the first one is merely the temporary copy used by TB to invoke your browser. -- Bill McQuillan Using The Bat! 2.11 on Windows XP 5.1 build 2600-Service Pack 2 Current version is 4.2.10.0 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html

Re: Make The Bat! default email application

s" and then click "Associate now". Of course, I'm running TB v2.11 so you'll have to adapt these instructions to your version. If that does not fix it, I can run through my next step: updating the mailto: URL info using the Windows Explorer Tools menu. -- Bill McQui

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

rackets: <http://example.com/ends-with-(parens)> the final Parenthesis IS included in the Windows editor but NOT in the MicroEd editor. It will be interesting to send and receive this message and see what the various viewers do! -- Bill McQuill

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

handle this URL. > So I am just wondering if it is a mailclient problem.. Well, I checked the RFCs for URLs and Right Parenthesis is a valid character in this position, so I have reported it in the Bug Tracker: https://www.ritlabs.com/bt/view.php?id=7709 -- Bill McQuillan Using Th

Re: If a URL ends with a bracket, TB! will not make that bracket part of the link

s* show as a URL in the Rich Text/HTML viewer, except the last bracket of course! Obviously, your mileage may vary if your TB is later than 2.11. -- Bill McQuillan Using The Bat! 2.11 on Windows XP 5.1 build 2600-Service Pack 2 Current version i

Re: Why won't the developers add an option for allowing a single carriage return for MicroEd? (with auto-format enabled)

On Fri, 2009-08-28, MFPA wrote: > Hi > On Friday 28 August 2009 at 7:25:01 AM, in > , Bill McQuillan wrote: >> Regardless, there are many other reasons I prefer the >> Windows editor. And for the issue of not wrapping the >> final output when I send, when I am finis

Re: Why won't the developers add an option for allowing a single carriage return for MicroEd? (with auto-format enabled)

ssage, I quickly switch to the MicroEd, apply Alt-L as necessary, switch back to Windows and send it! Works for me. In fact I did just that with this message! -- Bill McQuillan Using The Bat! 2.11 on Windows XP 5.1 build 2600-Service Pack 2 ___

Re: Why won't the developers add an option for allowing a single carriage return for MicroEd? (with auto-format enabled)

s the color of quoted text! I guess that I don't find the misleading colors as annoying as I do that in MicroEd I cannot click somewhere out to the right of a line and have the cursor appear just after the last character on that line. Also note that I am using a fairly ancient version the Windo

Re: Why won't the developers add an option for allowing a single carriage return for MicroEd? (with auto-format enabled)

lem may be what caused the developers to throw up their hands at some point in the past and decide that just doing a Windows style editor was the way to solve the problem for people that wanted what you're asking for. (I could be wrong!) BTW, my Windows editor seems to color quoted text appr

Re: Please help me understand the Pros and Cons of MicroEd (many, many wrapping issues)

y my sig, I am using TB v2.11 and it *is* possible that some such feature has been incorporated into a more recent version. If so, I might (might!) be tempted to upgrade. -- Bill McQuillan Using The Bat! 2.11 on Windows XP 5.1 build 2600-Service Pack 2 C

Re: Sorry: a test

t; I checked No and the next message that I sent was received from the list. This may have been a coincidence, but I left the option turned off since it is much easier for me to delete a duplicate message than to read a missing one! -- Bill McQuillan Using The Bat! 2.11 on Windows XP 5.1 bui

Re: Problem with %HDR macro

could use %MODIFYONCE(User-Agent) at the beginning of your template. However, %SETHEADER would also work by creating the same User-Agent header twice. -- Bill McQuillan Using The Bat! 2.11 on Windows XP 5.1 build 2600-Service Pack 2 Current version is 4.2.4 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html

Re: Recipients' Addresses Suppression

disclosed recipients:;" in the TO: field. (Note the trailing ":;" which satisfies the requirement for something in the TO: field by using the under-utilized "group" syntax.) -- Bill McQuillan Using The Bat! 2.11 on Windows XP 5.1 build 2600-Service Pack 2

Re: Always sending us-ascii

On Mon, 2009-03-02, MFPA wrote: > On Monday 2 March 2009 at 2:38:16 PM, in > , MFPA wrote: >> On Sunday 1 March 2009 at 6:35:44 PM, in >> , Bill >> McQuillan wrote: > [...] >>> This leads me to believe that the list server builds a >>> new

Re: Always sending us-ascii

t peeve of mine, it seems that this much processing of each message would make it straightforward for the list server to determine whether a cut mark already exists and insert one just before the footer if necessary. This could reduce the fish traffic on this list considerably! :-) --

Re: [RECOVERED] Re: Confirm Receipt, Reading Confirmation

27;s client)) are both a standardized specially formatted message, it is possible that your ISP is doing you the "favor" of deleting these as some sort of spam. Note that this is not necessarily the actual explanation, but it is something to consider if no other explanation turns out to be b

Re: Speaking of signatures

s it from that known location (file) and puts it into the message being created. For instance, the text "already living days and xxx hours" probably needed to be updated just before the macro put it into the message. That's the use of an external program. -- Bill McQuillan <

Re: The Bat and MSGTAG

ion (with me) *could* be considered "a loss." -- Bill McQuillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Using The Bat! 2.11 on Windows XP 5.1 build 2600-Service Pack 2 Current version is 4.0.24.0 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html

Re: Some folders are slow to respond - an update

rmine a value that had not been previously used. If there were many left over BAT.TMP files that search became noticeable. Perhaps the URL manager has a similar problem? -- Bill McQuillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Using The Bat! 2.11 on Windows XP 5.1 build 2600-Service Pack 2 _

Which mailman server is correct?

know which is the correct one? -- Bill McQuillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Using The Bat! 2.11 on Windows XP 5.1 build 2600-Service Pack 2 Current version is 4.0.24.0 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html

Re: Mail tracking

am not about to upgrade! The primary reason I started using TB was the fact that I could download and read ANY email without worrying about Trojans, viruses or web tracking "bugs". -- Bill McQuillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Using The

Re: .EML associations don't remain "sticky"

ok what's set as email program. I bet it's Outbook Perplex. I realize that it might be accepting defeat, but consider how often you double click on a ".EML" file in Windows Explorer. If you never actually do (I never do), you might just go to [Options | Preferences... | Applicat

Re: .EML associations don't remain "sticky"

es and disable its association for .EML. Good luck. -- Bill McQuillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Using The Bat! 2.11 on Windows XP 5.1 build 2600-Service Pack 2 Current version is 3.99 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html

Re: "Common" filters

ld imagine a situation where a shared set of incoming and outgoing filters might need opposite orders! Just a thought. -- Bill McQuillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Using The Bat! 2.11 on Windows XP 5.1 build 2600-Service Pack 2 Current

Re: Flagged messages not shown?

ge Flags" and "Flagging" in separate columns. "Flagging" is the one that allows orange flags to show. -- Bill McQuillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Using The Bat! 2.11 on Windows XP 5.1 build 2600-Service Pack 2

Re: TB and Gmail?

en the same misspelling, if I recall correctly!) I looked at it several times without seeing it. Fortunately, I looked once more and did see it! :-) -- Bill McQuillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Using The Bat! 2.11 on Windows XP 5.1 build 2600-Service Pack 2 ___

Re: TB and Gmail?

On Sun, 2007-06-10, Susanne wrote: > My current setting for smtp are: > smpt.gmail.com > secure to dedicated port TLS 465 Is the name of the smtp server supposed to have "smpt" spelled incorrectly? -- Bill McQuillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Using The Bat! 2.11 on

Re: Lists that don't overwrite the Reply-To header

is interested in a bug report from a 2.11 user.) ;-) -- Bill McQuillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Using The Bat! 2.11 on Windows XP 5.1 build 2600-Service Pack 2 Current version is 3.80.06 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html

Re: How to attach a picture

e do not seem to be any corresponding Menu selections for these formatting functions! I hope that TBUDL lets at least the Plain Text portion of this message through! -- Bill McQuillan Using The Bat! 2.11 on Windows XP 5.1 build 2600-Service Pack 2

Re: How to attach a picture

ll delete it, but the BCC to myself should have it and I will report my success or failure. -- Bill McQuillan Using The Bat! 2.11 on Windows XP 5.1 build 2600-Service Pack 2 -- Notice the square brackets in the middle. That's what I got

Re: How to attach a picture

vorite editor mode in the bottom field: "Default message text editor". Good luck, -- Bill McQuillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Using The Bat! 2.11 on Windows XP 5.1 build 2600-Service Pack 2 Current version is 3.80.06 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html

Re: Filters

es are only there to *select* a message. The Action tab then allows the selected message to be moved only to a single folder AFAICT. I need a different filter for each destination folder to keep my mailing list messages separate. -- Bill McQuillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Using The Bat! 2.11 on

Re: Gmane / subject on replies with counter / threading

and sort Subjects or to create its own reply Subjects. My recommendation is to uncheck "Use reply numbering in the subject line" in all reply templates. -- Bill McQuillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Using The Bat! 2.11 on Windows XP 5.1 build 2600-Service Pack 1 _

Re: Macro for AV automatic mail ?

AIL PROTECTED]>. Please note that most of the over 100 spam messages I get per day have something like: From: Rolex Watches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> so one would need to match the phrase in front of the email address exactly to the correct person in order to to use this sort of test

Re: Date of a sent message ?

eck the actual sent date and time, open the saved message and hit either Shft+Ctl+K or F9 to see the actual message header and look for the date field of the earliest (bottom-most) Received header field. This will be the time stamp that was added when The Bat! sent the message on its first hop. -

Re: TB 3.01 Installer

On Sat, 2004-10-16, Jonathan Angliss wrote: > On Saturday, October 16, 2004, Bill McQuillan wrote... >> After getting the e-mail from Ritlabs announcing the availability of 3.01, I >> went to the download page and discovered that even though the page shows the >> size of ea

Determiing Reply Type in Macros

TB has two buttons: "Reply to the message selected" and "Reply to all". Is there any way in a reply template to determine which one was pushed? -- Bill McQuillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Using The Bat! 2.11 on Windows XP 5.1

TB 3.01 Installer

the actual program that installs itself for TB 3.01 so that I can archive it? -- Bill McQuillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Using The Bat! 2.11 on Windows XP 5.1 build 2600-Service Pack 1 Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' i

Re: Rogues pics

s->Message Headers and scroll down the list to see "Follow up" under Display As next to "References" under RFC Name. Notice also the bizarre renaming of the perfectly good RFC Name "Sender" to "X-Sender". -- Bill McQuillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> U

Re: A new one

st of the day cleaning them off my machine with Norton Anti-virus, Ad-Aware and regedt32. DO NOT GO TO THE SHAKESPEARE RANDOM CURSING GENERATOR! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. -- Bill McQuillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Using The Bat! 2.11 on Windows XP 5

Re: template problem

On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 08:23:42, Thomas Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, that's where you can include the %reply macro. Reading the help file shows me that the macro is actually "%replyto". How accurate this may be is another question. ;-) -- Bill McQ

Re: Harvest Sender Email Addresses??

On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 15:41:19, Mike email (The Bat!) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Saturday, August 7, 2004, 9:27:58 AM, Bill McQuillan wrote: BM>> I had to insert the Sender: header field manually (as X-Sender!) and BM>> I had to save the message into the Outbox to get t

Re: Harvest Sender Email Addresses??

On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 01:27:58, Bill McQuillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 12:32:38, Zonnet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have never seen a msg with multiple address in the From: field. >> Maybe you could send one to demonstrate? > I ha

Re: Harvest Sender Email Addresses??

utbox to get the Bat! to let me put my address into the Sender: field. -- Bill McQuillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Using The Bat! 2.11 on Windows XP 5.1 build 2600-Service Pack 1 Current version is 2.12.00 | 'Using TBUDL' information:

Re: Harvest Sender Email Addresses??

" header field is intended to show. In fact, one of the uses of the "Sender:" header field is to show the actual, single sender of the message when there are multiple From: addresses. (It mystifies me why The Bat! chose to rename this standard field to "X-Sender:".)

Re: Harvest Sender Email Addresses??

t;) might find them, but the actual syntax of mailbox address is pretty complex and would be an interesting exercise! I have noticed that the Bat! implementers seem to have left out some of the more obscure but useful portions of the mail RFCs in their haste to give us smilies, Chat, etc.

Re: Smileys - How Are They Viewed By Non Bat Mail Programs

-to are subfolders of the above. > - There is no need to close The Bat! while you perform these steps. I think that the version of the Bat! must be at least 2.12, since these directions do not work for the 2.11 version that I have installed. In particular, ctl-alt-shft-T brings up some sort o

%THEBATVERSION Extension

As can be seen in my sig below, the %THEBATVERSION macro I used in the template only shows "2.11" whereas I quite frequently see sigs showing "2.11.02". Does this mean that they are using Beta versions or do they know a variant macro that inserts the minor version? -- Bi