Re: Sorting by thread activity

2009-03-19 Thread Doug Higby
Hi Nick, I had the same problem you describe, and the New Threads option fixed it. It would be nice if it had a more descriptive label... Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 5:25:03 PM, you wrote: Hello, I'm trying to get threads with recent activity to show as the bottom (sort by create date,

Can't set highlight colors on directory list

2008-09-09 Thread Doug Higby
Hi Bat Users, I am frustrated because I can't seem to set the highlight colors in the folder navigation pane. These belong to color group Generic Group by default. In the attached image, you will see why I want to change it. The Beta folder is the one I am browsing in (inactive highlight), but

TheBat insists on backing up to a non-existant drive.

2008-06-08 Thread Doug Higby
Hello, Every day I have automated backup scheduled to go at noon on my lunch break. But it insists on sending the backup to F:\Voyager which doesn't exist. This seems to be a ghost from my past use of Voyager on a memory stick. I had backed that up and restored it to TheBat. Now, I have

Re: Best way to use The Bat on two home computers?

2008-03-30 Thread Doug Higby
Hello Achdut18, Sunday, March 30, 2008, 7:25:17 AM, you wrote: A After reading all of the posts on this subject, It seems to me that I A could do the following: download mail to either the laptop or the A desktop, but then use the synchronization feature of The Bat to make A sure that both

No way to purge unread messages in common folder

2008-02-08 Thread Doug Higby
Hello, My Gmail account pulls in messages for the beta list for TheBat! Message count is over 5,000 and I have it set to keep *only* 300 messages. The messages are sorted and placed in a common folder: Lists TheBat! Beta The folder settings for Beta are set to Max stored messages =

Re: Wrong time-stamp on mail received.

2007-11-19 Thread Doug Higby
Robin, Thursday, November 15, 2007, 2:33:06 AM, you wrote: RA You can export those emails to a Unix mailbox format and then edit the RA date on the first line of each email. This line starts with the word RA From but is not followed by a colon, then has the sender and the RA received date and

Wrong time-stamp on mail received.

2007-11-13 Thread Doug Higby
Hi, I discovered one of the disadvantages of using Voyager. Apparently I plugged it into a computer who's time was set two weeks in advance. Now I have all my emails sorted incorrectly with those on the top. Since the bat is connecting to the internet anyway, it would be nice if it could

Re: MicroEd

2007-10-15 Thread Doug Higby
Hello Marek, Saturday, October 13, 2007, 6:00:06 PM, you wrote: MM new Microed which supports Unicode is underdevelopment and should be MM introduced in 4.x. Great news and a big incentive to upgrade! -- Dougmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** TheBat! Voyager 3.99.4

MicroEd

2007-10-13 Thread Doug Higby
Hello TBudl, I much prefer using MicroEd text editor, but it doesn't do Unicode. I would love for this to be tweaked at some point so I can continue using it. I've had to abandon it for the Windows text editor instead. Does anyone else have these problems? -- Doug

Re: Forwarded message not marked

2007-08-22 Thread Doug Higby
Hello MFPA, Tuesday, August 21, 2007, 7:21:00 PM, you wrote: Perhaps you can work around this by using colour groups instead of relying on flags? Thanks, I think I'll try that instead. -- Dougmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** TheBat! Voyager 3.99.4 on Windows XP

Re: Forwarded message not marked

2007-08-20 Thread Doug Higby
Hello MFPA, Wednesday, August 15, 2007, 3:05:46 PM, you wrote: Are you actually forwarding the mail to your wife's email address, or just moving (or copying) them to her folder/account within TB!? No this is forwarding to a separate email account via the internet. The latter will not

Macro Syntax question

2007-08-20 Thread Doug Higby
Hi, In another thread there were suggestions for salutation line macros, one of them looked like this: %Capital(%ABToFirstName=%ToFName), The effect is that if ABToFirstName exists, it uses it, otherwise it uses ToFName. It works, but since when does an equal sign mean if not, then?? If I

Re: Desktop Search Engines

2007-08-16 Thread Doug Higby
Since I use Voyager, and message base is encrypted, am I correct in assuming that a desktop search is out of the question? -- Dougmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** TheBat! Voyager 3.99.4 on Windows XP Current version

Forwarded message not marked

2007-08-14 Thread Doug Higby
Hi all, I finally solved my communication problems with my wife by creating a sorting rule that automatically forwards communication from people in address book family to her personal box. I wish I thought of it years ago! I also made a keyboard shortcut so that I can semi-automatically forward

Re: Which one to use?

2007-08-13 Thread Doug Higby
Hello John, If you are dealing with a limited set of addresses, you can use the info from your address book instead. Then you match the address, and use whatever you have in the Firstname field in your address book. That way, even if the address says Quality Manager, your reply will say Dear

IMAP file deletion

2007-08-09 Thread Doug Higby
Hi, I'm a POP3 kind of guy, but I have one account that I can only access through IMAP. There is something I am not getting about IMAP, though. When I delete a file, it just turns red and sits there. No amount of synchronizing or double-deleting will make it disappear, it is like the

Re: Selective Download Filters

2007-08-02 Thread Doug Higby
Hello Chris, Wednesday, August 1, 2007, 10:38:39 PM, you wrote: Or, perhaps there is a better way to do what I want to do... I have one real account [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have two other account [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] Neither [EMAIL PROTECTED] nor [EMAIL PROTECTED] have

Can master password be changed?

2007-08-01 Thread Doug Higby
Hi, Can anyone tell me if there is a way to change the master password on Voyager? -- Doug mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** TheBat! Voyager 3.99.4 on Windows XP Current version is 3.99 | 'Using TBUDL' information:

Re: filters

2007-06-19 Thread Doug Higby
Hello Terry, Monday, June 18, 2007, 10:09:26 PM, you wrote: Currently our company's e-mail system is have problems. I can receive messages but can not send. As a work around I have been replying to e-mails in my work account than moving the messages to a personal e-mail account and sending.

Re: Voyager as default email client?

2007-06-13 Thread Doug Higby
Hello Thomas, Tuesday, June 12, 2007, 2:18:49 AM, you wrote: Try this: While the USB stick with Voyager is connected, open IE (yes, Internet Explorer) and go to Tools / Internet Options / Programs. There, see whether you can set the program for Mail to Voyager. No, only three options, none

Voyager as default email client?

2007-06-11 Thread Doug Higby
Hello tbudl, Is there any way to make Voyager the default email client on a computer? I have tried, but have not been successful. Anytime I click on a mailto link, Outlook or something else comes up. It may seem counterintuitive for me to want to do this, but I don't use TheBat! at all, and

Re: Help with error

2007-06-07 Thread Doug Higby
Hello Michael, Sunday, June 3, 2007, 11:55:50 AM, you wrote: When clicking on a mailto link within a HTML page, I get the error The System Cannot find the file specified. This does however work from within the bat. Also When clicking HTML links within the Bat (and the Help menu) it has the

Re: Moving from Outlook 2003

2007-05-23 Thread Doug Higby
Hello Roelof, Tuesday, May 22, 2007, 10:42:01 PM, you wrote: The functionality of accessing the same message base at the same time from multiple systems has been discontinued around v3.65 I don't know for sure how many licenses you'd need, but there's no problem whatsoever to access the

Re: I am having an email issue can some one tell me how to see the entire message header quickly?

2007-05-18 Thread Doug Higby
Hello danger, Thursday, May 17, 2007, 8:44:07 PM, you wrote: Hello tbudl, I am having an email issue can some one tell me how to see the entire message header quickly? Press Shift+Ctrl+K -- Dougmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** TheBat! Voyager 3.99.4 on

Re: best view mode for this list

2007-05-13 Thread Doug Higby
Hello Roelof, Saturday, May 12, 2007, 10:12:44 PM, you wrote: Thread on references Sort on created date Sometimes the threading information goes missing (someone not using TheBat! ?) and then the reply gets lost elsewhere in the list. I have it set to: Thread on references + subject Sort on

Re: check the space taken on a server

2007-05-07 Thread Doug Higby
Hello Urban, You could use Telnet and the STAT command. See, for example, http://manual.liquidweb.com/chapter3/pop3.htm for an introduction It seems that this might be relatively easy to implement in the program? Maybe this would be a suggestion for version 4, to have the mailbox space

Re: Filtering Read Messages

2007-05-03 Thread Doug Higby
Hello Thomas, Monday, April 30, 2007, 1:27:36 PM, you wrote: Hello Doug, On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 21:55:37 +0200 GMT (30/04/2007, 02:55 +0700 GMT), Doug Higby wrote: DH Using the wonderful virtual folders of TheBat, I created a folder that DH contains all messages that are flagged

Re: Inbox damaged after folder maintenance (3.99.3 OTFE )

2007-05-03 Thread Doug Higby
Hello Charlene, Wednesday, May 2, 2007, 7:58:47 PM, you wrote: Good evening list members, a dear friend of mine has encountered a strange problem and she can't get rid of it: Performing a folder check in folder maintenance center will repeatedly cause a damaged inbox folder with a loss of

Re: Filtering Read Messages

2007-04-29 Thread Doug Higby
Hi, I'm new to this group but not to TheBat! I appreciate the mail filtering suggestions and will add my system to the mix. Messages are marked read automatically when viewed for six seconds. (I would forget to mark them as read otherwise). But then, If I determine a message needs action, I