Re: X-Ray Question
Saturday, June 28, 2008, Bill McCarthy wrote: In TB, I changed the port address to 1. I tried replacing my User name with xray and xray.srv to no avail. What changes to I have to make to TB to get this to work I'm not familiar with X-ray so I might be totally wrong but... You did remember to set TB! to localhost (or 127.0.0.1) as Mail server? -- Urban I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. (Rita Roodner) Current version is 4.0.24.0 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Two entries?
Tuesday, April 1, 2008, Roelof Otten wrote: Yes, that's normal behaviour. It allows you to switch from one window to another even when you run them maximized. That's not your best explanation ever, Roelof. You mean doing the alt+tab or activity bar icon-click thingie, right? -- Urban I gase at the brilliant full moon. The same one, I think to myself, at which Socrates, Aristotole and Plato gazed. Suddenly, I imagine they appear beside me. I tell Socrates about the national debate over one's right to die and wonder at the constancy of the human condition. I tell Plato that I live in the country that has come the closest to Utopia, and I show him a copy of the Constitution. I tell Aristotle that we have found many more than four basic elements and I show a periodic table. I get a box of kitchen matches and strike one. They gasp with wonder. We spend the rest of the night lighting farts. Current version is 4.0.18 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: how to manipulate the creation date?
Wednesday, August 15, 2007, MFPA wrote: The only trick I know for this is to set your computer's date/time to Monday before creating the emails (and remember to put it right afterwards). I just stumbled upon a program that might be helpful for that: Nirsoft RunAsDate http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/run_as_date.html Haven't tried it myself, just passing on information -- Urban An opera is a song of bigly size. Current version is 3.99 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Which one to use?
Thursday, August 9, 2007, John Phillips wrote: Read in the macro help file I see a CAPITALFIRST macro, but if I add the parameter =%TONAME I get Hello Sharon smith. I really only need the first part of the name; how to do this? Use TOFNAME instead of TONAME -- Urban Franklin discovered electricity by rubbing two cats backwards and declared, A horse divided against itself cannot stand.. Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead. Current version is 3.99 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Mailbag Assistant
Tuesday, July 10, 2007, Kitty wrote: Following up to my archive question, I am trying out Mailbag Assistant and have a few questions: 1. When I get to the page that gives options on what the Wizard can do, one option is to make archive. snip If so, does doing so remove anything from TB or will the originals still be in TB? They will be left in TB. 2. Let's assume I make an archive of 500,000 messages (about how many I have as archive). Next week I want to update the archive. When I open Mailbag and tell it to archive my folders, will it start out and create new archives of everything or only archive the new stuff? In the wizard there is an option to create a filter, you can use it to create a new archive of only messages in a date range. 3. It appears that Mailbag is putting all the archives into one folder as opposed to the many folders that I have in TB? Is there a way to have Mailbag archive messages into the same folders that they are in now in TB? The easiest way I can think of at the moment is by writing a mailbag script to do that. I don't have access to Mailbag right now so I can't be more specific. -- Urban Cymbals are round, metal CLANGS! Current version is 3.99 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Archiving Mail
Tuesday, July 10, 2007, ETM wrote: But I still would like to be able to easily access that old mail. If you save as mbg-files you can access them from within Mailbag. -- Urban Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be changed regularly and for the same reason. Current version is 3.99 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Archiving Mail
Monday, July 9, 2007, Kitty wrote: What are my options for archiving outside of TB, but where I could easily look at the emails? Mailbag Assistant comes to mind http://www.fookes.com/mailbag/index.php -- Urban Every dog isn't a growler, and every growler isn't a dog. Current version is 3.99 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: 1) Extra sound plays when mail arrives; 2) CTRL-F2 not working
Thursday, July 5, 2007, Peter Bennett wrote: CTRL-F2 (dispatch all messages on the server) does not work. I can click the button or select the menu item, but I'm used to using the keyboard. Again, any advice appreciated. There is a Shortcut Editor. The help file says it should be available through View - Edit Shortcuts. I just looked but couldn't find it. Anyway, View - Toolbars - Customise and choosing the Shortcuts tab seems to be right. -- Urban Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time. (Henry Beston) Current version is 3.99 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: reply to addressbook issue re macro
Friday, June 1, 2007, Tom wrote: Also, I now copied the exact same entry in both macros for compose and reply %ABTOFromFName and the output is different. In compose I have as output Dear (blank), Kind Regards... Yes, since there is nothing for the macro to take it's value from in a new mail. You probably want to use %ABToFirstName instead. whereas my reply has output Dear _Joe ... Looks like the first name field in AB is _Joe. Change it to Joe -- Urban I know a lot about cars. I can look at a car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming. Current version is 3.99 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Tag Field
Sunday, May 27, 2007, Thomas Fernandez wrote: First time I see this... What are the tags good for? Apart from human-readable description, I mean. There new to me too. Maybe they can be used for a comma separated list of keywords. Would make it a whole lot easier to search for a specific filter. -- Urban Vacuum: A large, empty space where the pope lives. Current version is 3.99 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: How to type Euro symbol in The Bat!
Wednesday, May 23, 2007, Mean Drake wrote: this has been my long standing problem and I will be glad to have some suggestions. Try using Arial Unicode MS as a font. It includes more characters than Courier New (which it seems you are using now). If you find that helps, it might be worth investigating shareware fonts such as Code2000 http://www.code2000.net/ -- Urban All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog. (Franz Kafka) Current version is 3.99 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: How to type Euro symbol in The Bat!
Tuesday, May 22, 2007, Perry Nelson wrote: Can any of you tell me how I would enter the symbol for the Euro while typing a message in The Bat!? Is this of any help? http://www.microsoft.com/typography/EuroSymbolFAQ.mspx -- Urban My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's almost $7.00 in dog money. (Joe Weinstein) Current version is 3.99 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: How to type Euro symbol in The Bat!
Tuesday, May 22, 2007, Peter Meyns wrote:
I can get the euro character (€) with {right alt}+E. But that's
because I'm using a German keyboard.
I don't know where I've picked up AltGr+5, but it's there for me.
--
Urban
Histories are more full of the examples of the fidelity of dogs than of
friends.
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Re: Contains any of filter
Wednesday, May 16, 2007, Fredrik Bergström wrote: I'm playing around in the Sorting Office and adding a Contains any of condition to a filter. But what are the separator(s) for the text? Just hit enter and write the next condition below the previous one. Like below: Sender contains any of Either This Could be this as well This also, of course -- Urban Talc is found on rocks and on babies. Current version is 3.99 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: check the space taken on a server
Sunday, May 6, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a possibility to check the space taken on a server? I don't think you can do that easily via TB. Well, you could do Account - Dispatch Mail On Server - All Messages and sum the sizes manually, but I said easily. how can one check the total space taken on this particular server? You could use Telnet and the STAT command. See, for example, http://manual.liquidweb.com/chapter3/pop3.htm for an introduction -- Urban I bought a seven dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring. I love blackjack. But I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle. Current version is 3.99 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Links with Accents
Monday, April 23, 2007, Chris W. wrote: The following link stops at the 'í' in my version: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Día_Internacional_del_Libro Can anyone else confirm? Yes A bug? Maybe more a case of TB doing it by the standard too much. Some characters in URL:s need to be encoded (there is a very nice list at http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/appendices/appendix2.html) But of course, humans should never have to be bothered with such trivialities. The program should do the conversion automagically -- Urban The moon is a planet just like the earth, only it is even deader. Current version is 3.98.04 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Attachments
Wednesday, April 18, 2007, Henri Maussang wrote: The attachment (video) is pretty big : 3.8 Mb. It stays in the Outbox for ever. It stays in the outbox until it has been sent. Use View - Show Connection Center to verify that it really is being sent. -- Urban Alice laughed: There's no use trying, she said; one can't believe impossible things. I daresay you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Current version is 3.98.04 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Spell checker
Friday, April 13, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you activate the spell checker? In the message editor, choose Spell Checker then Automatic checking. -- Urban On the night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln went to the theater and got shot in his seat by one of the actors in a moving picture show. The believed assinator was John Wilkes Booth, a supposedly insane actor. This ruined Booth's career. Current version is 3.98.04 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Font Problem
Thursday, April 12, 2007, Gene Brown wrote: Any messages with a quote in them have the quote displayed in a small font size. snip This is disconcerting to me and I'd like to have everything in the same size font. How can I fix this? Options - Preferences - Viewer/Editor. It's either under Plain Text/MicroEd or HTML/Windows Editor, item names are Quotation and Quotes. -- Urban It's always darkest before dawn. So if you're going to steal your neighbor's paper, that's the time to do it. Current version is 3.98.04 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: TB News Client
Tuesday, April 17, 2007, Deboo wrote: And where do you get MyGate and how to use it with TB? I searched google for mygate but didn't get any news related site. It's available from http://www.thebatworld.de/modules/download/index.php?op=viewlinkcid=27 Translated version of how to use at http://translatedversion.notlong.com (or http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=ensl=deu=http://www.thebatworld.de/system/sections/index.php%3Fop%3Dviewarticle%26artid%3D3%26page%3D2sa=Xoi=translateresnum=1ct=resultprev=/search%3Fq%3D%252Bmygate%2B%252Bnntp%2B%252Bproxy%26num%3D100%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dopera%26rls%3Den%26sa%3DG if you prefer the long URL) -- Urban The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare. He was born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday. He never made much money and is famous only because of his plays. He wrote tragedies, comedies, and hysterectomies, all in Islamic pentameter. Romeo and Juliet are an example of a heroic couplet. Romeo's last wish was to be laid by Juliet. Current version is 3.98.04 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: MyRealBox IMAP Configuration?
Sunday, March 25, 2007, Greg wrote: If you are using MRB with TB what is your configuration to connect with TB? snip !3/25/2007, 12:42:42: IMAP - Could not connect to the server IMAP is temporarily down, see http://www.myrealbox.com/ I don't know if you have seen it, but MRB will be moved to Message Architect and you need to opt-in to move your account. Deadline is today (hey, I just noticed myself). -- Urban I got in an argument with a girlfriend inside of a tent. That's a bad place for an argument, because then I tried to walk out, and had to slam the flap. How are you supposed to express your anger in this situation? Zip it up real quick? Current version is 3.98.04 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Old Messages
Thursday, March 22, 2007, Richard Newman wrote: What setting am I missing when The Bat on other machines deletes messages after download? Account - Mail Messages - Delete received messages from server -- Urban Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change. Current version is 3.98.04 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Most recent TB! Update
Saturday, March 17, 2007, Jeanny House wrote: Is there any reason to update if I'm still using Windows XP? Well... The only that is new in 3.98 from 3.95 is the AutoBackup. There were a few bugfixes and cosmetic changes too. Here's whats changed in 3.98.4 from 3.98.1 http://www.ritlabs.com/en/products/thebat/news_detail.php?ID=1838 -- Urban I often wonder how come John Tesh isn't as popular a singer as some people think he should be. Then, I remember its because he sucks Current version is 3.98.04 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: How to reset Mail Dispatcher Columns?
Saturday, March 10, 2007, Roelof Otten wrote: Problem is that Regedit remembers where you left it. That feature of Regedit can be controlled using the tweak discussed at http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1896762,00.asp The is that it also disable Regedit's favourite keys, I've set up some shortkeys to Regjump to emulate that http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Miscellaneous/Regjump.mspx -- Urban Psychiatrists say that 1 of 4 people are mentally ill. Check 3 friends. If they're OK, you're it. Current version is 3.98.04 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Help
Friday, February 23, 2007, Dave Goodman wrote: Sorry, I don't have the answer, but after years of using TB! a few months ago I also started having delays in sending. No answers from me either. I've had troubles with the last versions too. Now I just save outgoing as drafts and undraft it again, works for me. -- Urban A dog's bark may be worse than his bite, but everyone prefers his bark. Current version is 3.95.08 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Editing Received Messages
Monday, January 22, 2007, Mary Bull wrote: But only helpful if there are meaningful subject lines, using words relevant to the body text's content. Memo is no substitute. So forward it to yourself and change the subject line. -- Urban I believe you should live each day as if it is your last, which is why I don't have any clean laundry because, come on, who wants to wash clothes on the last day of thier life Current version is 3.95.06 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Address Book Nesting
Tuesday, January 9, 2007, Mike Greenbaum wrote: I want to end up with: Classes Class1 Contact1 snip Inactive Classes Class2 Contact1 The closest you can get is by creating a new address book (Tools - Address Book - New Address Book) called Inactive Classes. Then You can cut and paste entire groups from the address book Classes to Inactive Classes. -- Urban Clouds just keep circling the earth around and around. And around. There is not much else to do. Current version is 3.95.06 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Stop generating .eml with forwards?
Monday, January 8, 2007, Andrew Diederich wrote: When I forward an email I received with attachments, the original email and attachment are added as an .eml file. Look under Account - Properties - Templates - Forward, there is a box saying Forward messages as attachments (MIME standard). You probably have it checked. Uncheck it and TB! will do what you want. -- Urban When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport. When the tiger wants to murder him, it's called ferocity. (George Bernard Shaw) Current version is 3.95.06 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Recovering Toolbars from Old Computer
Monday, January 8, 2007, Roelof Otten wrote: In the tbuser.def file in your mail directory. In the mail directory? Then my TB! must be strange because it has placed tbuser.def in %APPDATA%\The Bat! and that isn't my mail directory -- Urban Vacuum: A large, empty space where the pope lives. Current version is 3.95.06 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: BayesIt Plugin missing
Friday, December 29, 2006, Gene wrote: SpamPal If you think I do poor German, then imagine what a mess I am with *anything* using the Cyrillic alphabet Hopefully, the world is a nice place and the Russian page should be roughly equivalent to the official TB-info from SpamPal http://www.spampal.org/usermanual/clients/bat/bat.html -- Urban Abraham Lincoln became America's greatest Precedent. Lincoln's mother died in infancy, and he was born in a log cabin which he built with his own hands. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves by signing the Emasculation Proclamation. Current version is 3.95.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: TB! still has negative image
Thursday, December 14, 2006, Alexander S. Kunz wrote: If you buy a product and find out it doesn't work according to the specs, the maker either gives your money back or solves the issue for you. That is another assumption, but it does not apply to the majority of software licenses that I know of. The license for The Bat (you should have it somewhere on your harddisk) says: The license (at least Pro), second paragraph, also says | Registration gives you the right to use the program after the 30-day | trial period, receive technical support and use features available | only for registered users. -- Urban I don't know about you, but I enjoy watching paint dry. I imagine that the wet paint is a big freshwater lake that is the only source of water for some tiny cities by the lake. As the lake gets drier, the population gets more desperate, and sometimes there are water riots. Once there was a big fire and everyone died Current version is 3.85.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Updating TB!
Wednesday, December 6, 2006, Mary Bull wrote: But MSI won't allow me to drop back. I'd have to do a full uninstall plus reinstall to do that. And it's too much hassle. MSI has an option to repair if file is missing or a different version is installed. So it /might/ work. Try going to Start - Run, and type msiexec /? and it will give you a nice li'l help screen -- Urban I don't know about you, but I enjoy watching paint dry. I imagine that the wet paint is a big freshwater lake that is the only source of water for some tiny cities by the lake. As the lake gets drier, the population gets more desperate, and sometimes there are water riots. Once there was a big fire and everyone died Current version is 3.85.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Finding all linked messages
Sunday, October 15, 2006, Stuart Cuddy wrote: You could do a search for the mid of the original message. Do the search under header contains. To find the mid, go to the message and hit F9 to see the headers. There will be a line that looks somewhat like Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] That strange [EMAIL PROTECTED] part is the mid, so just copy it and use it in your search. -- Urban I bought a seven dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring. I love blackjack. But I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle. Current version is 3.85.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Re; Running The Bat! on Mac OSX
Monday, October 9, 2006, Granville Cousins wrote: I have a Mac G4 Powerbook running OSX. Is it possible to run The Bat! on this machine with the help of some emulation software. What about Wine? http://darwine.opendarwin.org/ -- Urban To prevent head colds, use an agonizer to spray into the nose until it drips into the throat. Current version is 3.85.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Common Filters
Thursday, August 31, 2006, Thomas Fernandez wrote: Can somebody please remind me of the file name in which the common filters are stored? snip Oh, and the folder structure is also in some file, IIRC. account.flb or account.flx? Take a look at TBUDP. Short link: http://makeashorterlink.com/?Y10B21AAD Long link: http://www.pcwize.com/thebat/tbudp/tiki-index.php?page=Program%20Folders%20and%20Files -- Urban Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it. (A.N. Whitehead) Current version is 3.80.06 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Virtual Memory overuse
Wednesday, June 14, 2006, Thomas Fernandez wrote: I don't think anyone will open a shorterlink. Well, at least I won't. Why don't you post both, the real link and - if you wish - the shorter link? Ok. Here's the non-shortened one http://groups.google.com/group/opera.general/browse_frm/thread/f9517660ae905f57/7c193474340b2c29?tvc=1q=%22Why+does+Opera+use+so+much+RAM%22#7c193474340b2c29 The thing I like about shorterlinks is that they show where they are taking you before redirecting. Not for very long, but long enough to copy the URL and stop the redirect by hitting a bookmark or going to your start page or whatever. Then, it's a piece of cake to just paste the URL into notepad and check it so it doesn't look strange. -- Urban A closed mind is a good thing to lose. Current version is 3.80.06 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Virtual Memory overuse
Monday, June 5, 2006, Ken wrote: I've noticed this when running TB in conjunction with Opera 9 Beta. If I shut down Opera TB behaves itself. I use straight POP3, no IMAP. I don't know if this is related, but there recently was a thread on Opera an RAM consumption on the opera.general newsgroups http://makeashorterlink.com/?I38622D3D -- Urban begin LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs|I'm a signature virus. Copy me!|end Current version is 3.80.06 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Wrap text problem ?
Thursday, February 23, 2006, Shahar wrote: Hello Richard On 2/23/06, Richard Wakeford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does Options/Preferences/Viewer/editor help? There you can set how you view each version of your mails. Been there. No change .. None whatsoever? Have you tried HTML and plain text for viewing? I think that your problem is that the mail is Multipart/alternative -- good explanation at http://email.about.com/cs/marketingtips/qt/et051003.htm -- but the text and html parts doesn't correspond. If you check the message-source (press F9), do you se a part that looks something like the example below? 8=8=8=8= --=_NextPart_001_0020_01C63359.64592ED8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable - Original Message -=20 From: Foo Bar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 2:40 PM Subject: Re: Yada yada yada --=_NextPart_001_0020_01C63359.64592ED8 Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 8=8=8=8= The text viewer will show only the message that is in the text/plain-section, in this case From: Foo Bar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 2:40 PM Subject: Re: Yada yada yada The most effective thing to do is to try to persuade the sender to change his/her settings so that they send that the text/plain-part contains the same message as the text/html-section. http://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/PlainText.html and http://home.earthlink.net/~bobbau/email/avoiding-html/ are good starting points if the sender needs instructions. Note that those are for configuring the e-mail client to avoid sending HTML, I don't think that it should be too hard to find out how to configure for multipart/alternative, though. Other than changing your viewer settings and convincing the sender to send in a format you like to read... Well, I think that it would be doable to set up a filter that fires a batch file to extract the message from the html part. But it would probably be messy, ugly and terribly ineffective. (BTW, your delimiter is missing a space after the two dashes) -- Urban The more people I meet the more I like my dog Current version is 3.65.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Wrap text problem ?
Hi TBUDLERs It's been 6 hours since I originally sent this one and it still haven't shown up here. Time for a repost! Thursday, February 23, 2006, Shahar wrote: Hello Richard On 2/23/06, Richard Wakeford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does Options/Preferences/Viewer/editor help? There you can set how you view each version of your mails. Been there. No change .. None whatsoever? Have you tried HTML and plain text for viewing? I think that your problem is that the mail is Multipart/alternative -- good explanation at http://email.about.com/cs/marketingtips/qt/et051003.htm -- but the text and html parts doesn't correspond. If you check the message-source (press F9), do you se a part that looks something like the example below? 8=8=8=8= --=_NextPart_001_0020_01C63359.64592ED8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable - Original Message -=20 From: Foo Bar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 2:40 PM Subject: Re: Yada yada yada --=_NextPart_001_0020_01C63359.64592ED8 Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 8=8=8=8= The text viewer will show only the message that is in the text/plain-section, in this case From: Foo Bar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 2:40 PM Subject: Re: Yada yada yada The most effective thing to do is to try to persuade the sender to change his/her settings so that they send that the text/plain-part contains the same message as the text/html-section. http://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/PlainText.html and http://home.earthlink.net/~bobbau/email/avoiding-html/ are good starting points if the sender needs instructions. Note that those are for configuring the e-mail client to avoid sending HTML, I don't think that it should be too hard to find out how to configure for multipart/alternative, though. Other than changing your viewer settings and convincing the sender to send in a format you like to read... Well, I think that it would be doable to set up a filter that fires a batch file to extract the message from the html part. But it would probably be messy, ugly and terribly ineffective. (BTW, your delimiter is missing a space after the two dashes) -- Urban The more people I meet the more I like my dog Current version is 3.65.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Sort Column Shading
Friday, February 24, 2006, Ian A. White wrote: It might have to do with the particular Windows theme you are using. More TB theme (the one in View-Themes) than Windows theme, I think. I see the shadings in Explorer, but not in TB using TB's Default (Windows) theme. -- Urban I bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween Current version is 3.65.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Wrap text problem ?
Wednesday, February 22, 2006, Shahar wrote: If so, what do I have to do in order to see the message not a one block ? Underneath the message should be at least two tabs, one saying Text and another one saying HTML. Just click on the HTML tab. -- Urban When people run around and around in circles we say they are crazy. When planets do it we say they are orbiting. Current version is 3.65.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: What happened to my F4 functionality?
Tuesday, December 20, 2005, Leonard S. Berkowitz wrote: For a long time, if I highlighted part of a message to which I wanted to reply, only the hightlighted part would be quoted when I hit the F4 key instead of a reply icon. Now, the whole message is quoted. Is there some way of setting this to behave as it did previously? Do you have any %QUOTES macros in your reply templates? -- Urban Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. (Douglas Adams) Current version is 3.62.14 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: cpu 100%
Sunday, November 27, 2005, lex wrote: About deleting temporary files: how do i find them? Start, then run, type %temp% (without the qoutes), sometimes there's a %tmp% too -- normally it's the same folder. Never wrong to try both. The files should be called bat*.tmp or something like that -- Urban I believe you should live each day as if it is your last, which is why I don't have any clean laundry because, come on, who wants to wash clothes on the last day of thier life Current version is 3.62.14 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: cpu 100%
Sunday, November 27, 2005, lex wrote: 869 items, is that a lot? I'd say that 869 bat items is quite a lot, yes. IIRC, there were some solutions to clearing the %TEMP% automatically in an earlier discussion on TBUDL... (searching)... Yes, here it is; the subject is TB! attachment display settings? Just search for it in the TBUDL Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/tbudl@thebat.dutaint.com/ -- Urban Cyanide is so poisonous that one drop of it on a dogs tongue will kill the strongest man. Current version is 3.62.14 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: So How much would the Voyager -cost..??
Sunday, November 20, 2005, Marten Gallagher wrote: I've been checking the links and the site for months (since Feb 2005) - ever since it was first announced and still can't find it! http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/E-mail/E-mail-Clients/The-Bat-Voyager.shtml -- Urban Eventually, the Romans conquered the Greeks. History calls people Romans because they never stayed in one place for very long. Current version is 3.62.14 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: What is winmail.dat file attachment? EOM
Wednesday, November 16, 2005, rich gregory wrote: The fentun product seems Netscape-centric. Any other ideas how one could see inside a winmail.dat file? This should work, I think http://www.mail-archive.com/tbudl@thebat.dutaint.com/msg34347.html Else, there a few links at http://dev.kanngard.net/Permalinks/ID_20050429165927.html and an online conversion at http://tud.at/php/tnef/ -- Urban Moses led the Hebrew slaves to the Red Sea, where they made unleavened bread which is bread made without any ingredients. Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandments. He died before he ever reached Canada. Current version is 3.62.14 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: That Cut Mark
Tuesday, October 25, 2005, Robert D. wrote: I was trying to explain to a few people, on another List, about the need and usefulness of the *cut mark* sequence. snip If there was an RFC *suggesting* the use thereof RFC2646, section 4.3 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2646.html -- Urban I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers. Current version is 3.60.7 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: That Cut Mark
Tuesday, October 25, 2005, Urban wrote: RFC2646, section 4.3 Oops, I was to fast again. 2646 has been superseded by rfc3676 ANyway, same section (4.3) http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3676.html I think the phrasing a long-standing convention is the closest to an actual suggestion you'll get from a rfc. -- Urban Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems? (Calvin and Hobbes) Current version is 3.60.7 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Re-Treading
Friday, October 14, 2005, Fredrik_Bergström wrote: Just remove the Ctrl+[ and Ctrl+] and add your own shortcuts that is possible to enter ;). I'm not in the habit of adding shortcuts to functions I don't use ;-) I'm only curious of the swedish equivalent to ctrl+[ so that I can help other swedes who might find it confusing. -- Urban Give me the strength to change the things I can, the grace to accept the things I cannot, and a great big bag of money Current version is 3.60.7 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Re-Treading
Thursday, October 13, 2005, Fredrik_Bergström wrote: I'm not that good using the Customize dialog but and/or hotkeys in TheBat, but I seem to not be able to push Ctrl-] on my Swedish keyboard You mean for Go to next unread message? It's ctrl+å Haven't managed to locate Go to previous unread message yet, though. It's not functions that are very important to me. -- Urban Agnus Dei was a woman composer famous for her church music. Current version is 3.60.7 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Re-Treading
Thursday, October 13, 2005, Fredrik_Bergström wrote: In the Customize dialog you can change / find the hotkeys needed, Go to previous unread message is in the Container Message List Pop-up menu. It still says Ctrl+] and Ctrl+[ in there. As I said, these are not very important commands for me so I just leave them like that. Thanks anyway, it's always good to know where to find stuff in order to guide other users. Tack och hej, leverpastej ;) Hej å hå, grävmaskiner i det blå -- Urban Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun. But I have never been able to make out the numbers. Current version is 3.60.7 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Do not play sound
Tuesday, September 13, 2005, Chris wrote: I have a filter called My List Messages. It selects only mailing list messages that were sent from my e-mail account and marks them as read (I wrote them; I don't need to read them again...). If, on a mail check, only these kind of messages are downloaded, I don't want to sound to play (There is no new mail to be read; ergo, no sound should be played.). If I understand you correctly, you want to play sounds for all other filters and want My List Messages to be silent. Take a look in Account - Sorting Office/Filters - Actions; there is an option Play a sound. You could create a short soundfile, using the Windows recorder for example, consisting of nothing but silence and point to that. -- Urban Queen Victoria was the longest queen. She sat on a thorn for 63 years. She was a moral woman who practiced virtue. Her death was the final event which ended her reign. Current version is 3.60.7 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Word wrap still considered good style?
Wednesday, August 10, 2005, ms wrote: Can someone point me to a good website that cares about this maybe? Take a look at http://www.effectivemeetings.com/productivity/communication/netiquette.asp It's the first hit in this Google search: http://makeashorterlink.com/?N36A2169B -- Urban No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them. (Otto Weininger) Current version is 3.51.10 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Importing from archived of .msg files
Wednesday, July 27, 2005, Paul Meathrel wrote:
I have a really old file ('95) with the extension .pst which I would
like to importing into TB.
The least costly way is if you have access to Outlook Explorer.
You can use the Import Wizard of OE (File-Import-Messages) from the
pst-file. From there, it should be possible to import them into TB using
TB's Mailbox Import Wizard (Tools-Import Messages-Mailbox Import
Wizard).
If that doesn't work, there are pay-tools such as Aid4Mail
http://www.aid4mail.com or MailNavigator
http://www.mailnavigator.com
--
Urban
Did you ever walk in a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's
how dogs spend their lives. (Sue Murphy)
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Re: On The Fly Encryption 3.5.25
Wednesday, June 8, 2005, MFPA wrote: On Wednesday 8 June 2005 at 8:27:25 AM, in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Boom wrote: Did you read below my signature line? Very good illustration. I missed that lint, too. Hey, Lint http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lint_programming_tool for e-mail would bee such a cool idea! -- Urban The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to his level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his. Current version is 3.5.25 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: An image catalogue app with VF ???
Thursday, June 9, 2005, rich gregory wrote: Maybe someone found something like this? Thanks for any hints... M You may want to try ACDSee 7.0 from http://www.acdsystems.com/, I belive M it does what you want. ACDSee rocks. Also consider Google's FREE Picassa which may do this as well. Altough I haven't tried it, PixVue http://www.pixvue.com/ seems to be a third alternative for you to try. -- Urban We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made. Current version is 3.5.25 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Proposal for spam filters
Wednesday, May 18, 2005, Steve Lee wrote: It is not the anti-spam solution that requires the subject tag, it is to make it easier to manually scan for trapped (false positive) messages so they can be identified and the sender whitelisted. I fail to see why this would be a good thing in the TB mailing lists. TB gives you functionality very much like that. Create a virtual folder that looks for TB mailing list addresses in the junk folder. -- Urban It was an age of great inventions and discoveries. Gutenberg invented removable type and the Bible. Another important invention was the circulation of blood. Sir Walter Raleigh is a historical figure because he invented cigarettes and started smoking. And Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100 foot clipper. Current version is 3.5 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Correct settings for GMX IMAP?
Monday, May 16, 2005, Roman Katzer wrote: is that even possible with their free accounts? I seem to remember that only the paid accounts had IMAP enabled. My german is as rusty as my klingon, but I think it's only available in paid accounts. Der IMAP4-Zugang ist in den Tarifen GMX ProMail und GMX TopMail verfügbar. Anyway, the settings they give for Thunderbird are these, I think you should be able to deduce the correct TB! settings from these: Your Name: Ihr Vor- und Nachname Email Address: Ihre GMX e-mail-Adresse POP Incoming Server: pop.gmx.net POP Outgoing Server: mail.gmx.net IMAP Incoming Server: imap.gmx.net IMAP Outgoing Server: mail.gmx.net User Name: Ihre GMX e-mail-Adresse Account Name: Eine beliebige Bezeichnung, z.B. Ihre GMX Adresse -- Urban I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it. (Malcolm X) Current version is 3.5 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: 3.5 Fade In/Out Menus?
Sunday, May 15, 2005, BJH wrote: I'm finding my way around 3.5 and I've noticed that right-click menus are slow to display on my computer, faidng in and out quite slowly. Not very slowly, but they're definitely not as quick as they have been in the past. Is this a Windows XP thing or a hidden setting in in V3.5? I'm running W2k so it's obviously not a XP thingie -- Urban No matter where you go, there you are. Current version is 3.5 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Was I dreaming...?
Sunday, May 1, 2005, Admin at AK wrote: Sometime earlier this year there was an email about a version of TB that would run from a memory stick. This definitely rang a bell. So I did some searching and found The Bat! Voyager http://www.ritlabs.com/en/products/thebat/news_detail.php?ID=725phrase_id=745609 -- Urban I like work; it fascinates me; I can sit and look at it for hours. Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Smileys
Friday, April 29, 2005, Mica Mijatovic wrote: Thursday, April 28, 2005, Mica Mijatovic wrote: Then the chubby woman begin to sing, and that's it. Oh, I thought they only did that in Wagner :-) Nay. It's a different woman and a different song. (-: [Has nothing with the saying. Although it *resembles* a tiny bit it. I don't quite follow you? To which lady did you refer? (This is getting OT so I'll CC to TBOT) snip You anyway have good tags lately. Thanks for amusement! Your welcome. Actually, I haven't updated my cookie-file for ages. It seems that as the version number of TB! increases the random generator gets more adept in picking the good ones. -- Urban Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to be made king. Dying, he gasped out: Tee hee, Brutus. Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Smileys
Friday, April 29, 2005, Martin Webster on tbudl wrote: I doubt that there is a problem with the ideas described in this thread... I looked at every message in Mozilla Thunderbird and each renders correctly. If there is no problem, then even I can think it would be a good idea. Since I don't have Thunderbird installed, could you check if the different regexps come through correctly if you cp them into the editor? -- Urban You know it's time to shave your legs when the cat uses them for scratching behind its ears. Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Smileys
Thursday, April 28, 2005, Alexander S. Kunz wrote: I'll only vote yes on this if I get *this* as bold and _that_ as underlined and /those/ as italics auto-interpreted, too. ;-) Hopefully, /that/ will never happen. As long as space is a valid character (which it is) it would make explaining regexps a lot harder, for example. -- Urban A virtuoso is a musician with real high morals. Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Smileys
Thursday, April 28, 2005, Gerard wrote: ON Thursday, April 28, 2005, 1:25:43 PM, you wrote: TBs My Sony cellphone detects when I am writing a smiley, and exchange it TBs to a picture on-the-fly. Should not TB work the same? I agree with you on this. Specially with the not so standard smileys it is good to know that you have written them correctly. Sounds good to me. -- Urban If we could just get everyone to close their eyes and visualize world peace for an hour, just imagine how serene it would be until the looting started Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Smileys
Thursday, April 28, 2005, Alexander S. Kunz wrote: Are you referring to the /italics/ only, because the slash is a regex escape character? No, the slashes around that is supposed to be of the emphasis/italics kind. -- Urban It has recently been discovered that research causes cancer in rats. Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Smileys
Thursday, April 28, 2005, Alexander S. Kunz wrote: Actually, (to be precise :-) ) you would use the backslash \, e.g. ^From.*(OWNER|owner)-(NOLIST|nolist)[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hmmm, then I don't know what the problem with /italics/ would be. :-) I've already answered the on /. Well it could be a problem if you wrote UNIX file paths in the form /etc/ but since people normally don't do that it is mostly a problem that exists in theory. But there could be a big problem with * (any number of the preceeding character). If we change the regexp from Martin to ^From.*(OWNER|owner)-(NOLIST|nolist)-.*\ *.* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Note the spaces around the first *.*) you might see what I'm getting at. A bold . written is hard to distinguish from one that is written in a normal font, and it most definitely is not the same thing as *.* (Bad example, I know, but it's getting kind of late and I'm too tired to make up my own examples). -- Urban In the last scene of Pagliacci, Canio stabs Nedda who is the one he really loves. Pretty soon Silvio also gets stabbed, and they all live happily ever after. Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Smileys
Thursday, April 28, 2005, Thomas Fernandez wrote: U As long as space is a valid character (which it is) it would make U explaining regexps a lot harder, for example. So? I don't use regexes, but I do use the TB viewers. Questions on regexps do pop up on the TB* lists from time to time. No wonder, since the lists are the best source for help on how to use TB! Once I hoped for a help file that match the other qualities of TB! but time has made me cynical. Therefore, I think, it would be an unfortunate thing to do since there is a possibility of confusing poor newbies more than they already are. It could turn into the old (c)-smilie-problem (remember that? Those were the days!) in miniature. -- Urban I gase at the brilliant full moon. The same one, I think to myself, at which Socrates, Aristotole and Plato gazed. Suddenly, I imagine they appear beside me. I tell Socrates about the national debate over one's right to die and wonder at the constancy of the human condition. I tell Plato that I live in the country that has come the closest to Utopia, and I show him a copy of the Constitution. I tell Aristotle that we have found many more than four basic elements and I show a periodic table. I get a box of kitchen matches and strike one. They gasp with wonder. We spend the rest of the night lighting farts. Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Smileys
Thursday, April 28, 2005, Mica Mijatovic wrote: Then the chubby woman begin to sing, and that's it. Oh, I thought they only did that in Wagner :-) -- Urban No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them. (Otto Weininger) Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Smileys
Thursday, April 28, 2005, Gerard wrote: If this was to be implemented it would never be possible to do in plain text and would a regex programmer use anything but a plain text editor? He he. I've even been known to use Lynx and (yes) vi from time to time too :-) But seriously, even if you wrote using the text editor, it (probably) would influence how the text was shown in the RTV too, just like the smileys work today. -- Urban Oliver Cromwell had a large red nose, but under it were deeply religious feelings. Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Bayesit - how does it mark a message as spam?
Thursday, April 21, 2005, MFPA wrote: RBL lookups? http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RBL.html -- Urban It would be terrible if the Red Cross Bloodmobile got into an accident. No, wait. That would be good because if anyone needed it, the blood would be right there Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: OT: Getting hitched, ball-and-chained, de-bachelorized etc.
Friday, April 8, 2005, Leif Gregory wrote: Well friends, the time has come.. Rachel and I will be married this Saturday, the 9th, at 6:30pm. Best wishes to you both! -- Urban As you make your way through this hectic world of ours, set aside a few minutes each day. At the end of the year, you'll have a couple of days saved up Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Anyone using OnSpeed with The Bat!?
Sunday, January 16, 2005, Alexander S. Kunz wrote: I'd like to see a few independent tests OnThis. :-) Jack Schofield's look at OnSpeed in the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/insideit/story/0,13270,1128097,00.html seems to deal with both the bads and the goods. -- Urban Gravity was invented by Issac Walton. It is chiefly noticeable in the autumn when the apples are falling off the trees. Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: SOT: Too busy Merry Xmas!
Tuesday, December 21, 2004, MAU wrote: Merry Christmas to all and a wonderful 2005!!! Yes, have a merry Christmas and a happy new year. -- Urban To prevent head colds, use an agonizer to spray into the nose until it drips into the throat. Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Who's stealing from TB?
Thursday, December 16, 2004, Watcher wrote: Any suggestions as to who the very impolite app is that's stealing the association without asking? Outlook Express maybe? Try this: Right click the desktop Internet Explorer icon and choose properties then programs. You should be able to set the mail client you want from there, but sometimes it needs a little push. IIRC, the way to do it is to set it to OE, reboot, and then set it to The Bat. -- Urban While trombones have tubes, trumpets prefer to wear valves. Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Toolbar button for new message
Monday, December 13, 2004, WilWilWil wrote: can I set a macro via templates, to say TB that this friend has to be mail with this account, and that other friend with that other account ? Under the New Mail, Reply and Forward tabs in the address book entry, there is a little check box that says use a specific template for new messages. If you check it you can use the macros you want, such as %ACCOUNT=ThisAccount or %ACCOUNT=ThatAccount It takes some tinkering to get macros working the way one wants them to, but it's not difficult -- Urban The First World War, caused by the assignation of the Arch-Duck by an anahist, ushered in a new error in the anals of human history. Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Toolbar button for new message
Monday, December 13, 2004, WilWilWil wrote: Is there a way to merge this friend special macro (%Account=) with global template of the account. I hope I 'll do not have to copy global template (with siganture) for each member of my addresses book (200) just to add which account has to be used ! Take a look at the %QINCLUDE macro. I /think/ that would be the easiest way to do what you want. -- Urban Question: What is one horsepower? Answer: One horsepower is the amount of energy it takes to drag a horse 500 feet in one second. Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: questions/suggestions for the bat...
Wednesday, July 7, 2004, subscriber2list wrote: how does one back-out of the end result, i.e., return to where ALL messages are listed again versus just the messages containing the particular item that resulted from following your steps? View - Display - All Messages -- Urban Murphy's Third Law: In any field of endeavor, anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Current version is 2.11.02 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: HTML backgrounds? - thanks!
Tuesday, July 6, 2004, Britt Henrikson wrote: You can't use html sjablones for TB. That's really a shame. I love to send and get mails with real letter papers. The best you can do is to find an image that tiles nicely an use that one. If you, for example, open Outlook Express (presuming you have that installed), you can find where the images it uses for background are by creating a new message using a template, then go to Format - Background - Image (I think, I am directly translating from a Swedish OE). Or, if you're in a lazy mood, type %CommonProgramFiles%\Microsoft Shared/Stationery/ in your Start-menu - Run and the correct folder should open. Remember, or write down or whatever, the file name. Then, in TB, when you want a document background, you click the correct button, check the Use background image, and press Load. Hope I explained it clear enough. I'll be away from mail for a time, so I can't answer you if you have any questions. -- Urban If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience. (Woodrow Wilson) Current version is 2.11.02 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Rogue Smileys - Bug or as Intended?
Thursday, July 1, 2004, Russell L. Farabee wrote: Hello All, Has anyone that views html messages (so that smileys are visible) noticed that some letters enclosed in parens sometimes, but not always, appear as smileys. For example, in an incoming message Open Paren b Close Paren (b) shows up as a beer mug, Open Paren c Close Paren (c) looks like a cup of coffee, and Open Paren f Close Paren (f) maybe a plate with a fork. You use a TB that's earlier than 2.11.02? The most annoying (?) of these, like the B and the C ones, were fixed in that one. There are a few left in the default installation, but I hope those will be taken care of, too. Anyway, the smilies are defined in a filed called pdsf.msl -- in the subfolder Images of the TB-installation. Just edit away those that annoys you. Won't help if you send a letter, but at least you don't have to see it anymore. You can also disable smilies on reading by going to Options - Preferences - Viewer/Editor and uncheck the Use smiley icons in HTML viewer, or by right clicking the letter you are reading and uncheck Smileys. -- Urban We keep track of the humidity in the air so we won't drown when we breathe. Current version is 2.11.02 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Unread folder
Sunday, June 27, 2004, Maggie wrote: Yes. The original ebay message(s) showed as usual in the Inbox normally as read, but not in the Virtual Folder Unread, and the flying bat icon still flapped. Thank you for your help. I hope my directions helped _you_! Folder - Refresh has been known to solve similar problems in the past. -- Urban I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. (Albert Einstein) Current version is 2.11.02 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Server error
Thursday, June 24, 2004, Shahar wrote: This error comes with the popup window that prompt for the username and the password. The window's name is %ACCOUNTNAME - check mail. My question is how do I get rid of this popup window whenever I have connection problem with my POP3 server ? I just don't want to see the TB window. Enter your user name and password in Account - Properties - Transport - Receive Mail You'll also need to set the Do not store password, prompt on mail retrieval that hides behind the Authentication button in that window. -- Urban Meanwhile in Europe, the enlightenment was a reasonable time. Voltaire invented electricity and also wrote a book called Candy. Current version is 2.11.02 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: SMTP Servers
Tuesday, June 22, 2004, Fredrik Bergström wrote: Actually, Telia (One of Swedens largest ISPs) blocks port 25 So connect through smtprelay.telia.com It's all buried somewhere on their site. (They changed their DNS:es too, so it might be worthwhile to take a look.) -- Urban My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpets or ruin our lives. (Rita Rudner) Current version is 2.11.02 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Can I import a thawte certificate into The Bat!?
Tuesday, June 22, 2004, Jim McMaster wrote: Using The Bat! v%THEBATVERSION on %WINDOWSPLATFORMNAME %- %WINDOWSMAJORVERSION.%WINDOWSMINORVERSION Build %- %WINDOWSBUILDNUMBER %WINDOWSCSDVERSION It looks like you are trying to write macros directly in the editor. If you do it in the Address Book instead it will work better. Go to Tools - Address Book (or hit F8), find (or create) the entry you want to edit. If you create a new entry, the correct window will show automatically, if you choose to edit an existing one then right click on it and select Properties. You will see that there are a few tabs, among them New Message and Reply. Select the one you want, tick the little box that says Use a specific template for new messages. Can I import a thawte certificate into The Bat!? If so, how do I go about it? If it's your own certificate: Account - Properties - Edit Personal Certficates - Import (I think, I did it once _long ago_, but mostly for fun so I may have forgotten or remember it wrong.) -- Urban I gase at the brilliant full moon. The same one, I think to myself, at which Socrates, Aristotole and Plato gazed. Suddenly, I imagine they appear beside me. I tell Socrates about the national debate over one's right to die and wonder at the constancy of the human condition. I tell Plato that I live in the country that has come the closest to Utopia, and I show him a copy of the Constitution. I tell Aristotle that we have found many more than four basic elements and I show a periodic table. I get a box of kitchen matches and strike one. They gasp with wonder. We spend the rest of the night lighting farts. Current version is 2.11.02 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Problems with extreme CPU power usage and slowly performing tasks...
Tuesday, June 22, 2004, Marije Baalman wrote: TheBat! is still looking for thebat.ipc every 10 seconds... what is this file for? The simple explanation is that it allows you to use the command line parameters to control The Bat while running. For a more detailed explanation and its use, you can go to the archives and look for the threads file not found thebat.ipc and thebat.IPC -- Urban The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before. Current version is 2.11.02 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: multi-language templates
Friday, June 11, 2004, Thomas Fernandez wrote: U I do that using the mouse-wheel, so I have to do a mousy-click U first and then move my hand to the keyboard. So your %Cursor macro should still be above the %Quotes macro, or not? I prefer to have it under. Saves me a little bit of work when I do a short reply like this. -- Urban Bach was the most famous composer in the world and so was Handel. Current version is 2.11.02 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: TB! attachment display settings?
Friday, June 11, 2004, Mary Bull wrote: I did this. You have solved the problem! All the old attachments will open now, just like the four new ones do. I'm so glad you got it to work. It took me some time, because I first moved the .tmp files to another folder, as you suggested, rather than deleting them. After I was able to open the attachments successfully, I then deleted the 88 bat.tmp files. I don't know why, but this approach always make me think the old swedish Minister of Finance Gunnar Sträng. He wore both braces and waist-belt, not a man you'd catch easily with his pants down. It's not a familiar activity for me, and I had trouble controlling the mouse to highlight them in selected blocks rather than one at a time. You know what they say, practice makes perfect. I don't have the words to say how much joy it brings me to have this problem solved. Thank you very much, Urban. And thank you, Mary, for sharing your happiness. -- Urban There are 10 kinds of people - those who understand binary math, and those who don't Current version is 2.11.02 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: TB! attachment display settings?
Thursday, June 10, 2004, Mary Bull wrote: 88 bat.tmp files in my profile [...] \TEMP are each one empty. I checked the Properties on every one of them. snip :h2g2: Maybe my attachment files are Lost in Space! No, different show. :) But your old attachments still are working if you copy them to the desktop? It could very well be those empty .tmp files that are messing things up for you. Try closing TB, then move the .tmp-files to another folder, they normally are safe to delete but just in case... It may happen that Windows says that some of the files are being used and can't be moved, that's normal, just click OK. Then open TB again and try opening one of your attachments. -- Urban Cymbals are round, metal CLANGS! Current version is 2.11.02 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: multi-language templates
Thursday, June 10, 2004, Thomas Fernandez wrote: U Advocating top-posting now, are we? (tsk tsk) SCNR No, I'm not. But my cursor is indeed set before the quotes, and I delete or not and write my replies while I go along. Didn't think of that. But I can see the sense in it. Just move down using the arrow keys and start typing where-ever you are. Nice! I do that using the mouse-wheel, so I have to do a mousy-click first and then move my hand to the keyboard. -- Urban During the Renaissance America began. Christopher Columbus was a great navigator who discovered America while cursing about the Atlantic. His ships were called the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Fe. Current version is 2.11.02 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: New mail, use account
Wednesday, June 9, 2004, VenimK wrote: Can i make this work. When sending new mail to specific group, use then a specific mail account ?? Yes, add the %ACCOUNT macro to the groups New Message tab in your address book. Like this: Hej %ABtoFirstName %Cursor -- Urban %ACCOUNT=Urban -- Urban When a singer sings, he stirs up the air and makes it hit any passing eardrums. But if he is good, he knows how to keep it from hurting. Current version is 2.11.02 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: TB! attachment display settings?
Wednesday, June 9, 2004, Mary Bull wrote: Can anyone help me fix this? Much appreciation in advance! I don't have a clue to what this can be, but the first thing that comes to mind is to try changing the settings for Use external viewer to open attached images (Options-Preferences-General). -- Urban To most people solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists solutions are things that are still all mixed up. Current version is 2.11.02 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: keyboard shortcuts for to: cc: bcc: subject: message headers?
Wednesday, June 9, 2004, Arthur Tan wrote: For instance, suppose I am typing an address and then want to erase the whole thing quickly. Is there a keyboard command for delete line in that part of the window? There are the standard Windows ones: Ctrl+Shift+RightArrow for select to end of word, Ctrl+Shift+LeftArrow for select to beginning of word, and Shift+End for select to end of line. -- Urban Rhubarb: A kind of celery gone bloodshot. Current version is 2.11.02 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: multi-language templates
Wednesday, June 9, 2004, Thomas Fernandez wrote: %TO=[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hallo %TFName %Cursor %Quotes Advocating top-posting now, are we? (tsk tsk) SCNR snippeti-do-da Help / Index / Macros / Full alphabetic list / Dash macro. No! It's gone! :-( It's there, the first one, before ABnnnPPP. Also, the Help window doesn't scroll with the scroll wheel. :-( It does with my Microsoft thingie. -- Urban No one's tall anymore. They're vertically enhanced. Current version is 2.11.02 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Error message from Help screen
Wednesday, June 9, 2004, Maggie wrote: Yes. I see how to accomplish that in the HTML editor, but how to do this in the Plain Text (Windows Proportional)?? You can't. In a plain text message the links just are, there's no need to indicate that it's a link. In HTML, on the other hand, you have to say that what you mean to be a link really is a link. That's where my unclickable links were showing. I 'spoke' to Allie about this and he was not seeing the same thing I was reporting about this. Your link showed fine here, and the only way I could manage to make it unshowable was to use the HTML-editor and send a non-linked URL. So I am as baffled as anyone else as to the reason why it acts as it does. Despite enjoying the ability to select and drag text around the window to different areas and all the other wonderful editing bells and whistles, I have decided to continue to use the old reliable MicroEd. I had not realized that the other editors did not wrap the text the way I created it, wrapping to the window instead. Maybe it's a wrapping thing. Have you tried to shorten it trough something like http://www.makeashorterlink.com ? -- Urban Home is where the house is. Current version is 2.11.02 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Your attachments
Wednesday, June 9, 2004, Thomas Fernandez wrote: Over here the attachments are called Part.txt. Should I be worried? JSL seems to use TB v1.61 It's been a while, but I think TB1.6x showed PGP/MIME sigs as msg.att BTW Jack, TB v1.62 is available for download from Ritlabs. -- Urban Vacuums are nothings. We only mention them to let them know we know they're there. Current version is 2.11.02 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: %THEBATVERSION Extension
Wednesday, June 9, 2004, Martin Webster wrote: Yes, readme.txt, which you will find in your TB! installation folder. Hmmm.. That's strange... It mentions Service release 2.11.01 but there's nothing about 2.11.02 -- Urban Franklin discovered electricity by rubbing two cats backwards and declared, A horse divided against itself cannot stand.. Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead. Current version is 2.11.02 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Smileys? Mail Chat?? What's becoming of The Bat!?
Wednesday, June 9, 2004, Thomas Fernandez wrote: U IMO that is simply not acceptable, by doing so I am implying to the U receiver that if you are not using TB you are a wrong-doer. What is not acceptable about that? - scnr. I guess I should have seen that one coming :-) U There's another thing that could be helpful... If you could attach (in U lack of any better words) the toggle to the address book. That way I U could tell you that I might very well send meaningful text that easily U could be shown as emoticons. That's a good idea. I haven't figured the bugtracker wishlist out yet. Feel free to add it if you want to. -- Urban A hurricane is a breeze of a bigly size. Current version is 2.11.02 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Error message from Help screen
Tuesday, June 8, 2004, Maggie wrote: A Did you send the message in HTML or plain text format? This is possibly the crux. I sent the link yesterday when we were going back and forth witht he various HTML/Plain Text changes, so I do not know. Is there a way to find out? Send messages to yourself, using the different editors, then read the messages using the different users. But to save you the trouble I just did that, and found that if you send using the HTML-editor you must add hyperlinks using the Add hyperlink icon if the HTML-viewer is to see them as a hyperlink otherwise it thinks they are plain text. -- Urban Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to be made king. Dying, he gasped out: Tee hee, Brutus. Current version is 2.11.02 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Error message from Help screen
Tuesday, June 8, 2004, Maggie wrote: Add Hyperlink is where? Is it in the Edit Mail Message window? I looked under Utilities|Attach Files| and did not see it there. In the Edit Mail Message Window, there is a row of icons; select font and size and such thing. (If you don't see it, make sure you are in the HTML-editor, then go to the View menu and check HTML Toolbar.) In this row there is an icon that looks like a globe and a paper clip -- that's the one. -- Urban Momentum: What you give a person when they are going away. Current version is 2.11.02 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Smileys? Mail Chat?? What's becoming of The Bat!?
Sunday, June 6, 2004, Allie Martin wrote: U In that case the person who gets the table can do something that is U _much_ better: (S)he can tell the sender that doing tables like that U isn't necessarily a good thing and show him or her a better alternative. .. the same can apply for the emoticon issue. In fact the emoticon issue is more easily solved. I have tried to figure it out, please tell. The best I could come up with that don't involve any change in how TB works as of 2.11.02 would be to add a footnote If you are using TB and see emoticons, please take the following steps. IMO that is simply not acceptable, by doing so I am implying to the receiver that if you are not using TB you are a wrong-doer. You cannot influence how your messages will be rendered by the receiving client. That's up to the client and the users settings. Which could lead to some very unfortunate misunderstandings that isn't easily resolved even by reading the source of the e-mail. You can minimize problems but you can't totally eliminate them. I can check and I can re-check, yes, but that's about all there is. It would be nice if the program gave me some help with this, though. For example, there could be a spellcheck-like function that looked for smilies. snip It can be disabled permanently or via a toggle switch (right click in the viewer and select 'Smileys'). If the user finds an emoticon strangely placed, as I do at times, (s)he simply toggles off the smileys. I've done this for a few messages already. There's another thing that could be helpful... If you could attach (in lack of any better words) the toggle to the address book. That way I could tell you that I might very well send meaningful text that easily could be shown as emoticons. -- Urban Alice laughed: There's no use trying, she said; one can't believe impossible things. I daresay you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Current version is 2.11.02 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Smileys? Mail Chat?? What's becoming of The Bat!?
Sunday, June 6, 2004, Thomas Fernandez wrote: Correct, as the smiley-function in TB has nothing to do with the author. It is only and exclusively up to the recipient to decide whether he wants Ascii-smileys replaced by icon-smileys. Even a silly sentence as The dog says grr and the cat meows shouldn't be interpreted as The dog says angry and the cat meows unless _I_ (the sender) mean it to be so. I shouldn't have to think twice when writing it, and the recipient shouldn't have to think twice when reading it either. The smileys have nothing to do with the sender of an email, this is not HTML! You send the email as usual. The receipient, if he uses the RTV in TB, can choose to have the emoticons replace by smileys. It is his choice, and only his. Again: This has *nothing* to do with the sender. This has /everything/ to do with the sender. It his, and only his, responsibility to make sure that the message sent isn't ambiguous. I've shown one way to make it so, another (and IMO a much better approach) would be if there was a standardised header X-Always-Show-Smileys-As-ASCII. You asked me to stop this thread, well I tried to CC to TBOT, but I am not subscribed there under this address. So I'll just hope that anybody that does respond make a CC there. Fair enough? -- Urban Queen Elizabeth was the Virgin Queen. As a queen she was a success. When she exposed herself before her troops they all shouted hurrah. Current version is 2.11.02 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
