Re: (Sort of) New User Questions

2022-06-09 Thread Fred Weissman
very much for the link. Appreciate the help. > On Thursday, June 9, 2022, 20:17:55, Fred Weissman wrote: >> 1- I'm  a plain-text person, not HTML. I will use it for email when >> absolutely necessary. I want my new messages -and- my replies to be in >> plain

(Sort of) New User Questions

2022-06-09 Thread Fred Weissman
After many (many!) years of using v2, I finally ungraded to v10. Needless to say, there have been a few changes, most of which I have figured out. Here are a couple with which I need help.   1- I'm  a plain-text person, not HTML. I will use it for email when absolutely necessary. I want my new

Re: How to subscribe to newsgroups?

2002-12-21 Thread Fred Weissman
No, TB is not a news reader. But there are good solutions with the aid of third party software. If you take a look at the list archives, my solution (working flawlessly) is explained in: [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Newsgroups with The Bat! and MailTraq Date:

Re: How to subscribe to newsgroups?

2002-12-21 Thread Fred Weissman
Hello Fred, Apparently the archives do not go back much before the current month. Or I couldn't find how to get into the April archives. Yes, they do go back that far. Try: http://www.mail-archive.com/tbudl@thebat.dutaint.com/msg36819.html Ahhh ... there it is. And it -is- rather

Re: why do my #?@! filters not work

2001-06-01 Thread Fred Weissman
The very *last* filter will search for e anywhere, and will filter straight into the trash. Actually works quite well. Perhaps I'm missing something here, but why the e? Thanks. -- I guess of all my uncles, I liked Uncle Cave Man the best. We called him Uncle Cave Man because he lived in

Re: proper english or not?

2001-02-28 Thread Fred Weissman
What is the correct form: Organisation or Organization? 's' or 'z'? "Organization" with a "z" is -American- English, while "organisation" with a "s" is the Queen's English - English as spoken (spelled) in the United Kingdom. -- When I die, I want to go sleeping like my grandfather. Not

Re: how use The Bat for news...?

2001-01-06 Thread Fred Weissman
Well, you can read newsgroups with TB actually. You need of course third-party programs to get yourself a workaround. I only know this very little as I'm not into newsgroups, but on the german TB list are some users who use TB and some program named Korrnews or Hamster to read and send to

Re: slow spell check

2001-01-06 Thread Fred Weissman
NA If I'm not mistaken, TB!'s spell checker has 3 settings, with the 3rd being NA the most comprehensive, but also taking the longest time. Perhaps you have NA inadvertently chosen door #3. ;o) I have it set at: Moderately fast and accurate. I go along with accurate description, but

Re: Palm Support?

2001-01-03 Thread Fred Weissman
One question: Is there any support available to synchronize E-Mails from The Bat with my Palm PDA? And if not, is support planned for the future? As a long-time TheBat user, and a fairly recent Palm IIIxe user, I'm following this public thread. In the hopes that someone contacts you off-list

Sorry

2000-12-14 Thread Fred Weissman
Please excuse my test message. I was in the wrong folder went I created it. Sorry. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.ne.mediaone.net/phred13 -- -- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To send

Re: Saving Message in a Folder

2000-12-06 Thread Fred Weissman
Is there any macro expression that I can place in a template will let me create a new message in a folder and upon sending, let it -remain- in that folder? As far as I know, no. You need to create outgoing filters to do this. I would find this facility very useful. There are several

Saving Message in a Folder

2000-12-05 Thread Fred Weissman
Is there any macro expression that I can place in a template will let me create a new message in a folder and upon sending, let it -remain- in that folder? I don't care if it winds up in the sent folder also, but I'd like a copy to remain where created. Thanks... -- I'm looking forward to

Trusted Root CA in Address Book

2000-09-20 Thread Fred Weissman
Maybe this has been discussed recently, but I don't recall seeing it. I'm running v1.46 and have noticed two folders in my address book that I didn't put there: Trusted Root CA and Intermediate CA. If I delete them, they reappear the next time I launch TheBat. What are they for? Do I need

Re: Moving parked messages

2000-07-31 Thread Fred Weissman
CM IMO, very awkward. To me "park" is a misnomer for the intent of the CM function; "keep" would be more like it, and then it should be CM "sticky," not disappear upon moving the message. CM But, I fear we may be in the minority here. As someone who has been losing hair over this for a while

Changing a date

2000-07-11 Thread Fred Weissman
Is there any way to change the "date created" on a message which has been received? For some reason, it has a year of 2017 on it, and I sort this folder by date created. Therefore, this message remains at the top of the list. Thanks... -- No one is listening until you make a mistake. [EMAIL

Message List Columns

2000-05-31 Thread Fred Weissman
I'm using 1.44 and seem to be having a problem with getting the Message List Columns to "stick." From tree view of my accounts, I highlight the account and then use the VIEW drop-down and select MESSAGE LIST COLUMNS. I then remove the columns I don't wish to see and click OK. The unwanted

Re: Message List Columns

2000-05-31 Thread Fred Weissman
I discovered this when I tried to set some specific folders to use the account default settings and they kept showing all the columns. Can anyone else reproduce this? Do we have a problem here? The problem is that you can't set the account default or any other column settings from the

Re: Auto Format

2000-05-08 Thread Fred Weissman
I am having a real problem with the above. In order to keep the cursor from scrolling down and not being visualized as I am typing, one must have Auto Format on, or it seems. Every time I set the darn thing, it turns itself off again. This happens with composing new mail, or

Editor Cursor Movement

2000-05-07 Thread Fred Weissman
I just upgraded to 1.42 and have found something that behaves differently than it did in prior versions. I don't want to call it a bug just yet, but I'd like to know if anyone else is experiencing it... When I'm at the bottom of the editor window typing a new message or a reply, and the line

Re: Editor Cursor Movement

2000-05-07 Thread Fred Weissman
On Sun, 7 May 2000 11:37:28 -0400, Fred Weissman wrote: I just upgraded to 1.42 and have found something that behaves differently than it did in prior versions. I don't want to call it a bug just yet, but I'd like to know if anyone else is experiencing it... When I'm at the bottom

Re: Our list - everything OK ?

2000-04-02 Thread Fred Weissman
On Sunday, April 02, 2000, 1:41:27 PM, Homesick Mac wrote: I was just wondering, what's happening with our list, I haven't received anything since March 28th... You might want to check with your Mail Server, as there has been quite a lot of traffic over the past 4 days. Begging to

Re: 1.41 .exe size

2000-03-11 Thread Fred Weissman
FW Given the relatively minor fixes/changes shown on the 1.41 change FW list, could someone explain to me why the .exe file has doubled in FW size to just over three megs? Because it's an uncompressed executable. After you install the full version, you'll note that the the_bat.exe file is also

Re: 1.41 .exe size

2000-03-11 Thread Fred Weissman
FW Are you saying the if I downloaded the_bat.exe and ran the full FW install, the .exe would be one-third the size? If so, this doesn't FW make sense. Why have two different size executables? And FW furthermore, why not have the smaller one available for those of FW use who don't need the full

Re: Use of Quote Character in TB

2000-02-07 Thread Fred Weissman
Someone posted an indepth explaination about a month ago, unfortunately I don't have access to my archives at the moment to find out exactly who or when, but the basic idea is that since TB supports the name This line should be highlighted as a quote. Nope, it isn't. syntax, then if the

Re: Digest (01/29/2000 06:00) (#2000-331)

2000-01-29 Thread Fred Weissman
Hello list, Friday, January 28, 2000, 6:01:40 PM, you wrote: lmtdc I can't answer the MAPI part but go to Account Properties Options, lmtdc tick the little box that says 'Periodical checking each' and tell it how lmtdc often you want it to auto check for mail. When I go to Account

Re: Selecting quoted portion of a reply

2000-01-28 Thread Fred Weissman
Allie wrote... AM That'd be F4 or right-click on the message, go to specials and it's AM there "reply quoting using selected text". That's it, F4! Thanks! This is a fine solution, and another example of how well thought out a program it is. Is there an equivalent for a -forward- quoting

Re: Spell Checker Oddity ?

2000-01-26 Thread Fred Weissman
On Tuesday, January 25, 2000, 1:54:34 PM, Nick Andriash wrote: I have "auto correct" enabled A clarification on the above statement... I have "Automatic Checking" enabled, as "Auto Correct" doesn't work for me, and never has. Good point. I can't find anything in the help file that states

Re: Spell Checker Oddity ?

2000-01-26 Thread Fred Weissman
On Tuesday, January 25, 2000, 2:09:00 PM, Fred Weissman wrote: "Ignore All" as I understand it, tells the checker to ignore all occurrences of that word for -this- message (or use) only. Since it's not being added to the user dictionary, it will flag it as unknown/incorrect the

Re: Spell Checker Oddity ?

2000-01-26 Thread Fred Weissman
In Reference to "Spell Checker Oddity ?" From Nick Andriash: NA Fred, it's supposed to automatically correct common mistyping's ;o) such NA as Febuary... in which case, as soon as you are finished the word _and_ NA the word exists in the correct.tlx Dictionary, then the word would/should NA

Re: Spell Checker Oddity ?

2000-01-26 Thread Fred Weissman
NA Thanks Nick... always saw the bolded line, but didn't realize that double NA right clicking would do the trick... such a "feature" isn't documented NA anywhere. :o) It's there under Spell Checking: "- Intelligent suggestions for misspelled words - SSCE can locate suggested replacements

Re: Spell Checker Oddity ?

2000-01-25 Thread Fred Weissman
I have "auto correct" enabled, and if I see a word that's been underlined because of a spelling error, but decide not to add the word to my User's Dictionary... or correct it, and choose "Ignore All"... if I happen to type the word again, the Spell Checker will underline it yet again, as if

Re: Warning! Check Your Temp Directories!

2000-01-15 Thread Fred Weissman
If you do find TB files in your temp directory, I would appreciate it (as would RITLabs) if you could check for the following: 1. File locations (c:\temp, c:\windows\temp, or elsewhere) 2. File names 3. File MIME types (are they all multi-part)? 4. Message dates 5.

Re: Template Help Please

2000-01-08 Thread Fred Weissman
FW I have a folder set up, under my INBOX, from which I want to forward FW messages to a mailing list. This list will be one-way only - outbound from FW me. Perhaps someone will reply, but the replies will be to me only, not to FW the list. I had this problem before, and someone (I think it

Re: Template Help Please

2000-01-08 Thread Fred Weissman
FW The template for the forwarded message is: FW -begin template-- FW This forwarded message is originally from %OFromName... FW %Text Use capital letters when writing names of macros (%TEXT, not %Text). Sometimes TB ignores such non-capitalized macros. I just went to the template

Re: Template Help Please

2000-01-08 Thread Fred Weissman
FW So -that's- not the answer. Well nuts... *sigh* Yeah, although I said something a little stronger. g FW (I wish it were that simple.) H... now that I think about it, some time ago someone was asking about people not having so much info in their Replies... or something to that

Re: Template Help Please

2000-01-08 Thread Fred Weissman
FW Anybody else have some ideas? Yes - I've seen messages completely change when going in to edit. It turned out to be a conflicting template in the address book against the [EMAIL PROTECTED] address entry which overrides the folder template when first going into edit mode.

Template Help Please

2000-01-07 Thread Fred Weissman
I posted this a couple of days ago, and received no response. I'm still struggling with this problem and wondering if anyone could lend a helping hand. I have a folder set up, under my INBOX, from which I want to forward messages to a mailing list. This list will be one-way only - outbound from

Re: Default 'mailto:'

2000-01-05 Thread Fred Weissman
TheBat does nothing when I click on a mailto. Suggestions please. http://www.pcwize.com/thebat/howdoi.shtml#Mailto: (browser) Downloading now. I'll let you know how it goes. Thanks for the fast reply. -- Please grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change

Re: Default 'mailto:'

2000-01-05 Thread Fred Weissman
TheBat does nothing when I click on a mailto. Suggestions please. http://www.pcwize.com/thebat/howdoi.shtml#Mailto: (browser) Works just like it's supposed to!!! Thanks again. -- I'm looking forward to baseball season. I always sit in General Admission, and I take my Uncle Bob with me so he

(No Subject)

2000-01-05 Thread Fred Weissman
I have a folder set up, under my INBOX, from which I want to send out messages to a mailing list. This list will be one-way only - outbound from me. Perhaps someone will reply, but the replies will be to me only, not to the list. I have two templates set up, based on the info in the help file

Re: URLs to Netscape via TheBat

2000-01-02 Thread Fred Weissman
FW When I position the cursor over a URL in TheBat (1.38e), ... I FW double-click on the URL and nothing happens. I assume it should FW launch Netscape and head out to the site in question. Am I missing FW something here? Try it with Netscape already open. Yes, with Netscape already open, it

Position of windows...

2000-01-01 Thread Fred Weissman
I'm another new user of TheBat, and I have a question about the positioning of TheBat's windows. Specifically, the editing window. I do -not- run Bat in maximized window mode, preferring to have "medium" size windows open, so I can have access to other things on my desktop. No matter where the

URLs to Netscape via TheBat

2000-01-01 Thread Fred Weissman
When I position the cursor over a URL in TheBat (1.38e), it changes to a nice blue arrow. This indicates to me that it recognizes it as a URL. I double-click on the URL and nothing happens. I assume it should launch Netscape and head out to the site in question. Am I missing something here?