Hello Tony, On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 21:09:15 +0100 GMT (30/10/2005, 03:09 +0700 GMT), Tony Boom wrote:
TB> I also think, judging by the personal mail that I've received in the TB> past, that a lot of people aren't brave enough to voice their opinion TB> on the subject in public. Curtis and you are encouraging us lurkers to comment. In my opinion, TB is still the best POP client out there, but that's because I haven't looked around since v1.34a. I am told now that the features I use most, filtering and completely seperate POP accounts, are available in other email clients by now, and some things are handled better. Would I recommend TB to my colleagues? Not at this stage. Here is why: 1.) If you have more than 10 filter conditions, you will have to wait several seconds (several minutes in case of 100 filter conditions) before the conditions are shown. This started with the NFS. 9Val says that's the way it is, period. For me, that's when I stopped recommending TB for "superior filtering". What good is a filtering system with an unacceptable behaviour when adding new filters, or even looking at the existing ones? 9Val has set the priority to low, so I guess RL is not interested in heavy users of the filtering system any more. https://www.ritlabs.com/bt/view.php?id=4000 http://www.ritlabs.com/bt/view.php?id=4937 https://www.ritlabs.com/bt/view.php?id=3412 2.) Also, people have correspondence with incoming and outgoing mail. for each new communication partner, they have to manually create two filters. Other clients have an option to just save the reply in the same folder as the original message. I'm ready to set up a filter, but there is no way I can explain why in TB two filters have to be set up. https://www.ritlabs.com/bt/view.php?id=3319 3.) And the last major reason why TB is not the perfect client is that it does not download images from the internet. Those who want to protect themselves from themselves by dumbing down the email client are not doing TB a favour. While a whitelist might not be the best solution, at least give us a botton. http://www.ritlabs.com/bt/view.php?id=1780 4.) One serious shortcoming has been fixed: In this latest beta series, I cannow see all recipients of an email message, and if the list of recipients is longer than one line, TB will open another line. this was a problem, because I cannot expect from my colleagues to press shft-crtl-K and look at all headers. This ridiculous thing has fortunately been fixed. 5.) Not fixed has been the shortcoming that if I set TB to download messages no bigger than 500K, and then this one mail comes in with an attachment of 1MB which I need, I have to go to the despatcher and manually find this mail in order to download it. Highly impractical for my colleagues, what with 3000 messages on the server at any given time (mails are being moved to archive after 30 days). Where is that button "download complete mail at next mailcheck" that Eudora already had 10 years ago? Cannot find the URL to the wishlist item. These are POP-related problems that make me wonder who RL's target group is. Chat functions, Message list tabs, roguemoticons - all nice little toys I enjoy to play with. However, I miss the seriousness in developing a commercial email client. As I side remark, I don't think it is impractical to follow professional software development lifecycle standards and send a release candidate to the beta list before releasing it. And I do think it is professional courtesy to inform the beta community of a release. -- Cheers, Thomas. Regular naps prevent old age..... especially if you take them while driving. http://thomas.fernandez.hat-gar-keine-homepage.de/ Message reply created with The Bat! 3.62.05 under Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.62.05 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
