Hello Frank,
Tuesday, December 21, 1999, 10:20:10 PM, you wrote:
> In Win98, my date/time preferences are set to ISO format:
> YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
> Why don't they appear that way in the received/created columns?
This is standard for most mail programs. Since presumably you know
today's date, they just show the times. That way it is a lot easier
to check what order a conversation took place. If you check today's
messages tomorrow, then you'll notice that old ones are the way you
want them.
> For today's messages, why don't they have today's date?
See above
> How do I edit the "new message template"? ... there isn't any information in the
>Help file. Try searching for "edit".
Depends. There are several places where there are new message
templates. You can have folder specific, individual specific ones or
global account templates. Individual superceeds folder which
superceeds global. For the global ones go to Account -> Properties
and Check under Templates. (If you explore the program a little
WITHOUT relying solely on the help files you'll discover the answers
to MANY of your questions. An hour just doesn't cut it with something
as robust as The Bat!)
> How do I turn of the feature that marks my messages as "read" if I leave the cursor
>on the message list for more than one second? (I actually didn't read the message, I
>was just scrolling for
> incoming messages.)
Check around. If you go to Account -> Options, you can set the delay
in seconds.
> How do I look at all the headers? There is no way to do this, according to the Help.
Again, if you explore the menus a little, you should find a very
simple solution. Go to View menu and select Message Headers (wow,
novel concept isn't it?) Or if you want more, right under it is Show
Kludges, check it out and see what suits your fancy.
> How do I turn off the animation of the bat in the task bar?
Read all your new mail, or go to Options and check out that menu.
Really, how much did you look around before giving up?
> When I move the cursor in down a line:
> V
> line 1: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx sssPss xxxxxxx
> @ !
> line 3: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx sssQss xxxxxxx
> ^
> The cursor is at P and I hit down-arrow to line 2 (which has no characters, just a
>newline) and the cursor should be at "@", but is actually at "!". In other words,
>the cursor motion doesn't work
> like all other text fields in Windows products.
Correct. It's better this way.
> Attachments of duplicate names get created as "abcdef.ext" ==> "abcdef.ext.1". This
>causes Win9x *not* to recognize the file type and I have to manually rename my
>attachments.
Can't help you there. All my duplicate named attachements get saved
as abcdef2.ext
> I can't turn off sending my initials in replies, i.e., "FF> " should be "> " ...
>I've set "none" in the Reply dialog, but this doesn't work.
Try again, works for me.
> When I copy an past text from another document, say a paragraph from MS-Word, I want
>to have the text automatically wrapped *for display* (not actually wrapped with
>embedded newlines) ... how do I
> set this? Autowrapping doesn't work ... and I don't want to manually wrap the lines
>because I want to E-mail receiver to have the same paragraph breaks.
Select the paragraph and hit Alt-L if you want it left justified. Or,
select the paragraph, go to Utilities -> Format Block, then whatever
you need.
> Why doesn't CTRL-R reply for messages, like Eudora? How do I customize this?
It's not Eudora, so why should it be the same? Unfortunately you
can't customize the shortcuts yet, but in version 2 I understand there
will be this functionality.
> Wrapping is according to the "right margin value", but where is this set? It is not
>in the help?
Go into Options - Editor Preferences and you'll find it.
> Overall, there is only one feature of "the bat" that is significantly better than
>Eudora light: automatic recognition of embedded UUENCODED files. Otherwise, there
>are too many problems (unless
> you all have fixes to the above list ... all discovered in an hour's worth of use
>... what other bugs are waiting?).
Like I said, an hour is not nearly enough time to learn a whole new
piece of software. Only when you upgrade in the same line will it be
really easy. (eg. Netscape 4.5 to 4.7)
Good luck!
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Thanks for writing
Januk
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Using The Bat! 1.38e
under Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A
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