Hallo Sean,

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 10:01:42 +0100GMT (26-8-2005, 11:01 +0200, where I
live), you wrote:

SO> I downloaded the Bat  and have been using it for a
SO> couple of days.  From the start, I have had problems with disappearing 
emails - when I
SO> just click some part of my inbox, it empties - when I close and
SO> reopen the Bat emails reappear in in box - but this morning they
SO> disappeared altogether.

That's a weird problem. I don't know whether it's related to the other
thingie, but that might be possible.
You're giving us awful little info though.
Are you on POP3 or IMAP, what virus checker are you using, etc

SO> The 2 ISPs I use - Zen & Virgin = remove viruses from their systems
SO> before they get to me - however, my virus checker on doing its daily
SO> check this morning  informed me that it had removed 7 viruses from
SO> my system     -  all in bat files ie bat3cc7.tmp   - viruses are
SO>   i-worm/mytob.bt,   Trojan horse generic ajo, worm.netsky.b   -
SO>   almost certainly came in with The Bat

Provided that you downloaded the install file from the Ritlabs site,
it is virus free.
Temporary files like bat3xx7.tmp are created by TB when downloading
mail or opening attachments. So the most likely thing is that one of
your ISP's let something through, of course it is possible that your
virus scanner is giving a false positive, but I consider that less
likely.
Anyway, your virus scanner is supposed to stop the downloading of
viruses, but that means it's cutting access to TB's temporary file. As
TB can't access the file anymore, it thinks that the download was
faulty, so it doesn't delete the message on the server and tries again
next message download.
You could try to locate the problematic message on the server. For
that TB has the message dispatcher
  Account -> Dispatch Mail On Server -> All messages
This is on an account basis, so when you don't find anything suspect
the first time, you should select your other account and try it again.
When your ISP's provide webmail, you could use that too when that's
easier for you.

SO>   This I have reported to the Bat people

SO>   Sean O'D







SO> ________________________________________________________

BTW You're supposed to use a signature delimiter (dash, dash, space,
enter) at the end of your message. That makes TB (and a couple of
other mail clients) automatically skip that when quoting.
It's one of the list rules that you got sent in your welcoming
message.


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