Hi, MS> great!! Another final version full of long known bugs! I can't MS> wait until we have 4.0 Final, buggy as 3.5 Final but then with an MS> upgrade fee. It's like Microsoft where I also do betatesting. You MS> have a timetable and follow it, regardless of what should be done MS> before releasing the software.
<veryveryvery(!)biggrin> I couldn't agree more in any way. Let's sum up v3.5 for a moment: - The ControlCenter malfunctions (AVs, "vanishes", opens and closes wrongly or not at all, looses track of its connections), even if it did in v3.01. - The POP-Dispatcher is broken, even if it wasn't in v3.01. - The Search function gives AVs on some systems, even if it didn't in v3.01. - The Customize function gives AVs, false display (empty dialogs, wrong buttons) and generally undesired reactions (folder auto-width) - there wasn't such a thing in v3.01. Even if not all defects show up at every installation, that doesn't leave much that is working at all, does it? Moreover, - IMAP doesn't work even as bad as in v3.01, but worse. - The new look is - in my very humble opinion - much inferior to v3.01's simple presentation which already gave all the needed data but didn't obfuscate it with colour themes in which you can select every single colour nuance - except the very one you would like to change or set back to v3.01's colours. - The memory consumption has worsened, if anything. - The editor (MicroEd) still has the enter-bug (some already tried to make me understand that this would be a feature, but even those gentlemen had to agree that it is a hinderance, not a benifit). And then, last of all, we come to the "common bugs" that are present in each version of every program, where TheBat certainly makes no exception: - In v3.01, in "Setup columns" in the "browse folder"-window there was the option "Auto width". In v3.5, it is no more. Since I'm using the same messagebase on different machens, one of them with a 21" display and one with a 17" one, I constantly have to resize columns. v3.01 did it automatically. Am I here at last allowed to call it a bug? Or did the option move to another place where I haven't been able to locate it yet? Only one thing I don't agree, and that's your comparison with Microsoft. I have contacted MS just recently. The matter was resolved in very few days to my fullest satisfaction. RITs support doesn't have a prayer here. They aparently need years just to notice something's wrong. That's why the time one could universally recommend TheBat is long gone. TheBat used to have a fine, almost unparalleled reputation among similar programs both for its capabilities, its safety and its reliability. It wasn't easy, but RIT has finally managed to kill that reputation - the capabilities would be fine if they worked, to trust a program this unstable would be a bit presumptuous, and about the reliability - well... Well. -- MfG, Alto mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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