Hello Alexander, Moosebreath & all other fellow TBUDL members,
Saturday, January 08, 2000, 1:52:46 PM, Alexander wrote in response to
Moosebreath's saying:
<snip>
>> I started using Calypso. I would call it a competent program
>> even though it's po-poed on the list group. To my amazement,
>> I find out it doesn't support MAPI and I have to use it for
>> some applications.
I liked it. (But TB is MUCH better for composition) what I didn't like
was MCSDallas, who were No help at all when C blew up for good after a
minor upgrade. Remember that C's mailboxes are all encrypted - and the
boys at mcsdallas didn't so much as offer to help me get access to 45
mb of the email in it (they did to another 5mb box, 2 weeks after I
sent them the file and 1 week after a TBUDL buddy did it from a lot
farther away).
>> Then The Bat! At a glance the interface looks like a simple
>> program. I install it and now I consider it home although for
>> the new user, it's really confusing on some points.
>> Now, I'm looking for some features and maybe they already in
>> the bat but can't seem to find them.
How much Russian (Moldovan?) do you speak. (I know 4 words). At
present, TBs help file is TBUDL. But these details (ie a "normal"
help file) are coming along.
>> I used to be able to edit a message and save it where it sits,
>> doesn't look like a way to do that.
That will be in v. 2.
AVK> Not supported. Either export it, edit the result and import back,
AVK> or just drag it to the Outbox, edit there and drag back (in the
AVK> latter case the Date: header will be changed to "Now":-()
>> I see there is HTML support but when an HTML page comes into email,
>> it doesn't look like what was sent, E-C-O (Eudora, Calypso, and Outlook)
>> display as a web page. I know I'll get flak here, but I would like
>> to see an HTML toolbar and the ability to display the page the way it
>> was sent.
AVK> TB protects you from possible security flaws *not* using the IE as the HTML
AVK> renderer. The majority of the users support this policy, and *hopefully* it will
AVK> *never*, *never* change!!!
I agree. (I also decided that even editing html text is superfluous).
TB gives me the content & if I'm interested I click on the attachment
icon so Opera can grab it.
>> When you subscribe to things nowadays, sometimes you're given a
>> choice of HTML of plain text but most of the time not at all, you
>> get HTML. Email and HTML have to mix nowadays.
Band width hogging. Fills message with extraneous code. Bad for 3rd
world countries (inc. emailing them) where people have scarce
resources and poor ISP options.
AVK> And what? TB displays HTML w/o a single problem.
Composing with it will be an option in v. 2. I don't need it myself,
but might want to highlight or underline a few things in what I
receive.
>> I'd like to select which account to send the email from (down arrow)
>> in the send mail when I'm about to send it, not have to send it from
>> the account I'm editing in.
AVK> You already have this possibility. Look into Options-->Active
AVK> account in the message editor window.
It should be visible, in a window to change it with. The same for
multiple signatures. (A la C)
>> I'd like to see a "preview" on the toolbar next to the print button.
>> And a "right click" on the toolbar to customize it.
AVK> Customisable toolbars will be supported in the upcoming version
AVK> 2. Currently no way.
An online / offline button is needed, so auto downloading stops.
>> Some small stuff like "change case", "wrap, unwrap", "remove quotes
>> in message" etc.
AVK> Have you looked into the RegExp support? Glance through the help
AVK> file, it covers this in full details. Much of the things you wish
AVK> can be done this way.
>> The ability to work with sentences or paragraphs or both. When
>> I'm composing a message, tell me which mailbox I'm in, in case
>> the gray cells get lost.
Options-->>Avtive account is checked.
DH
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