Hello all, It appears I got no reply regarding my earlier query on new licence prices, but it looks like upgrading to Home is now cheaper than before: 15,95 € + VAT instead of 19,95 € + VAT. So, no reason to buy it in September rather than October or later; after all, the current licences are valid for all 6.x versions that have not yet been released. I only hope it will be possible to upgrade my current *complimentary* Pro version to a future Home version. By the way, opening the purchase webpage at RITlabs.com loads the Malayan (!) interface by default, with a German (!) title in the browser's title bar. Also, there are The Bat resellers here in Slovakia, yet they are not mentioned at RITlabs.com at all.
As to The Bat for Android or iOS, I beg to differ from others who have contributed to this thread. To me, The Bat is no longer the fastest way to handle large amounts of incoming email. My primary email software since the spring of this year has been Mailbox on iOS, www.mailboxapp.com . There is just no comparison, as to how fast it is compared to The Bat, *especially* for handling large volumes of email. The Bat seems too slow and inefficient by comparison. To me, the following are the 2 key advantages offered by Mailbox and missing in The Bat: 1) ablity to move *dozens of threads* from folder to folder with a single swipe of your finger -- even if you use keyboard shortcuts in The Bat, the same operation is a *lot* slower 2) ability to order messages in a folder *manually*: not according to date, not according to authors, not according to subject -- but *manual* ordering of messages, where you can, for example, order your messages in the order of their perceived priority to you; the sequence in which you intend to process those emails. Simply tap a message with your finger, and move it to any place in the folder you find appropriate. There is zero equivalent in The Bat to this *crucial* (to me) and truly revolutionary functionality offered by Mailbox. Apart from the 2 lacking crucial features above, The Bat seems noticeably slower than Mailbox for accessing mail via IMAP. I have 4 Gmail IMAP accounts enabled in both The Bat and Mailbox. Mailbox handles all 4 accounts with the same speed: instantaneously. The Bat is very slow in handling 1 of the 4 IMAP accounts -- my oldest Gmail account. The 3 other Gmail accounts set up in more recent years, work relatively fast in The Bat. But for that oldest IMAP account, despite its Inbox being empty (!!!) at the end of each day, I sometimes need to wait for *dozens of seconds* before the body of a message appears in The Bat. I have tested this on 2 separate computers running The Bat -- the same slow-down for the same IMAP account is there on both computers. It *never* happens in Mailbox for the same IMAP account -- the bodies of messages load pretty much instantly there. That said, the *editor* for *composing* messages in Mailbox is absolutely awful. To me, nothing compares to the beauty of efficiency of The Bat's MicroEd plaintext editor. In Mailbox, you can't even *disable HTML* when sending out a message. MicroEd, along with reply templates, is the no. 1 reason why I still use The Bat at least once a day (typically, whenever I need to write a longer message), and why I'll be purchasing the new licence. And so, to me, simply making the current The Bat available on Android/iOS, would be no solution. I would still continue using Mailbox as my primary email program, because it's so much faster and more efficient than The Bat. The ideal solution, to me, would be The Bat on Android/iOS that would *combine* the advanced Mailbox mail management functionality (I hope they have no copyright on it) with the advantages of The Bat's MicroEd plain-text editor, reply templates, etc. Bottom line: for processing emails received, Mailbox is the king. But for *composing* emails, The Bat is the king. Neither Mailbox, nor The Bat are, therefore, 100% ideal. The ideal would only be an email program *combining* the current advantages of Mailbox and The Bat. -- Yours, Alex. of Slovakia www.avenarius.sk [flying with The Bat! 5.4 under Windows 7 64-bit 6.1 Build 7601 Service Pack 1 AMD Athlon II X4 645 @ 3.10 GHz & 8 GB RAM] ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 5.8.6.0 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
