Some Newbie Questions...
Hi all, 1) In my haste to start using using TB, I set up a lot (over 2 dozen) of email accounts and just accepted the default templates (New, Reply, Forward, etc.) for each account. Now, after about 2 weeks of using TB, I would like to change them all but it seems that I need to change them one account at a time. Is there a faster way to do this? i.e. is there a centralized way to change the default templates so that the changes will also apply to all existing accounts? 2) I like to view my message list such that the newer ones are at the top. However, after I've read a message and delete it, TB always like to automatically highlight the next one below (i.e. an older one which I've already read and decided to keep). Can I configure TB so that it can automatically move to the next message above? 3) I had this problem where my ISP only allows 4 simultaneous connection to the mail server at one time and causes TB to hang when I check my 2 dozen accounts all at once. I wrote a quick and dirty script to overcome this. Is there a easy way for me to configure TB to call an external program (i.e. as a menu item, a button, a shortcut, etc.) so that it can run my script? -- Best regards, choppystridemailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The Bat! v1.62q Windows XP Pro v5.1 bld 2600 (Service Pack 1) Current version is 1.62r | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re[2]: Problem connecting to multiple email accounts on the sameserver
Hello Leif, Friday, June 20, 2003, 5:08:17 PM, you wrote: LG One, for each account I would set the check messages every n minutes LG to differing times. So one set of four mail accounts to check every 3 LG minutes, another set every 5 minutes, 7, 11, 13, 17. Thanks for the suggestion, perhaps I'll give that a try. LG serious reason for having to have 24 separate mailboxes, aliasing is LG the way to go. My reluctance to use aliases is that sometimes when I'm on the road and don't have access to TB, I need to rely on the web based mail frontend provided by my email host. However, the web mail they provide does not allow me to change the FROM field of the email header. Therefore, if I need to send emails via the webmail, I would reveal the true target email account which I would like to hide. Also, in my original description of the problem, I forgot to mention another strange behavior. I mentioned that the accounts that were unsuccessfully checked would get stuck and hang the Conn Centre, which I would then need to terminate by pressing the abort button. I find that, from this point on, TB would not perform any subsequent account checking for these unsuccessful accounts, even on an individual basis. For instance, for each of these accounts, I would press F2 and nothing would occur (i.e. I don't see the Conn Center coming up with messages saying that it's connecting and checking, etc). However, for the successful ones, subsequent checking would go on as normal. The only way to rectify this is to close TB and restart it again. I've been browsing thru the archives and have seen a lot of Hanging on Retrieval type of problems. I wonder if this is a well-known bug that Ritlabs is working on? -- Best regards, choppystridemailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The Bat! v1.62q Windows XP Pro v5.1 bld 2600 (Service Pack 1) Current version is 1.62r | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Problem connecting to multiple email accounts on the same server
Hello, My email provider provides an unlimted number of email boxes. I currently need to setup 24 for myself. I am having trouble retrieving mail from all my accounts at once (i.e. by using the Tools - Check Mail for All command). The problem seems to be caused by the fact that my email provider only allows 4 simultaneous connection to their email server from the same IP. I've tested this out by using the /CHECK command in scripts and can produce this problem consistently when I check more than 4 accounts at a time. What happens during these tests are that, the first 4 accounts will connect and retrieve all mails successfully. However, subsequent accounts would seem to get stuck, causing the Connection Center to hang indefinitely. I would then need to terminate the Connection Center by pressing the abort button. Note that this error occurs whether I am connecting to an IMAP or a POP3 server. I've also tried using multiple /CHECK commands in my script by specifying 4 accounts at a time but it did not make any difference. Currently, the only thing I can do is check each account separately via mouseclicks or the F2 hotkey. Needless to say, this is very inconvenient considering the number of accounts that I have. Interestingly, I've tried this with the Pegasus email client (v4.11) and had no problems. Not sure why this is the case. Perhaps it connects to and then disconnects from the server each time an account is checked? Any suggestions to overcome this problem will be greatly appreciated. BTW, my email providing uses qmail on Linux. -- Best regards, choppystride mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The Bat! v1.62q Windows XP Pro v5.1 bld 2600 (Service Pack 1) Current version is 1.62r | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re[2]: Problem connecting to multiple email accounts on the sameserver
Hello Daniel, Friday, June 20, 2003, 5:49:43 PM, you wrote: DR I think this should be a short-term solution. And, that a more DR permanent solution be implemented in the next version of TB (1.63). In Are you saying that Ritlabs is aware of this problem and that a solution is near completion? I was browsing thru their bugtrap and saw a bug titled Mail fetching (POP3) hangs dated Jan 22. I wonder if this is the same one that I'm experiencing. Perhaps I should report mine? DR example, have an option so that the check messages is done DR sequentially. This is probably a scenario that either wasn't thought DR of at design time and/or nobody reported before. As I've said before, I've tried Pegasus which doesn't have this bug b/c it seems to be checking the accounts sequentially. However, it also seems to be very slow, much slower than TB when I tested them out by having them check only 4 accounts (the limit imposed by my email provider). So perhaps we should be allowed to specify how many accounts to check at a time to minimize the possible performance loss. But then of course my tests were not exactly precise scientific experiments. And also, I'm assuming here that this 4-at-a-time limit is the source of the problem, which may or may not be. -- Best regards, choppystridemailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The Bat! v1.62q Windows XP Pro v5.1 bld 2600 (Service Pack 1) Current version is 1.62r | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re[2]: Problem connecting to multiple email accounts on the sameserver
Hello, DR example, have an option so that the check messages is done DR sequentially. This is probably a scenario that either wasn't thought DR of at design time and/or nobody reported before. I think there might be a temporary solution but I need some help from the Windows programming experts out there, particulary the scripting gurus, to figure out how to do it. I notice that whenever TB checks email, the Connection Center starts, which you can see as a task under the Application tab in the Windows Task Manager. After TB finishes checking, the Conn Center task terminates automatically. If we can figure out when the Conn Center task finishes, we can do the following inside a script or batch file: ..\TheBat.EXE /CHECKMail Acc #1 wait for the Conn Center task finishes ..\TheBat.EXE /CHECKMail Acc#2 wait for the Conn Center task finishes ..\TheBat.EXE /CHECKMail Acc#3 wait for the Conn Center task finishes and so on... Nice additional features would be: 1) Determine all the accounts programatically (i.e. perhaps from all the folder names under: C:\Program Files\The Bat!\MAIL). 2) Have an option to specify how many accoutns to check each time. Does anyone know how to do this? -- Best regards, choppystridemailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The Bat! v1.62q Windows XP Pro v5.1 bld 2600 (Service Pack 1) Current version is 1.62r | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
