Hello Tom,
Tuesday, January 18, 2000, 7:41:32 PM, you wrote:
TP> Ok, so I've been shopping for a new email client, and The Bat!
TP> seems to be working relatively well.
Complicated commands not well identified, rough and inconvenient
access to many features, filtering complicated by being folder based -
but it's stable, has an outstanding editor, best spell check
implementation I've seen, it's multilingual, does many things at a
time, the developers are responsive, there's a really good user-group,
and it does "seem to be working relatively well", with many
improvements in the wings. Worth the hassle of learning, in my
opinion.
TP> Without going into evangelism, can anyone give me any pros/cons of
TP> the "competition" as compared to The Bat!?
TP> I've downloaded Calypso but have yet to install it.
Calypso has a few neat tricks that I'd like to see on TB (multiple
signatures and active account more accessible, an accounts column),
but incredibly bad tech support, no functional users group, a really
poor monolingual spell check dictionary, and when it blew up after a
minor upgrade (with 50 mb of my encrypted mail), no remedy was offered
than my changing whole system. And it does one thing at a time. Pretty
but shallow.
TP> Haven't used Eudora in years. Don't know about anything else...
TP> So, what's up, what features do each have that the other(s) don't?
Not 3 pane (I was coming from Netscape), poor tech support,
Anticipates many things I want to do incorrectly, freezes often or
won't open - and that is also true for me with Pegasus.
TP> In other words, why is The Bat! a better choice than either of these
TP> two?
See the above. It may more be a matter of personal choice, the work
habits of the user, what he's used to, or a matter of what works on
your system, and not necessarily a matter of which is the better
choice. Different strokes for different folks.
TP> If you don't think that this is appropriate to the list, please
TP> respond directly to my email box. You know how to find it. ;)
I did start this as private mail, but it's a valid question for TBUDL:
Why do you all use The Bat? (Although Alexander V. Kiselev doesn't - check his
headers - he's using Pegasus Mail for Win32 v3.12b and his reasons
have been stated clearly on TBUDL and should be found in this months
archives w/ the subject heading: Pegasus vs. The Bat!).
Here are some other email programs some people like:
Becky - Japanese (I downloaded it but haven't tried it - because I'm
satisfied with TB! in the sense that it's already dependable and
useful now and steadily improving) http://www.rimarts.co.jp/becky.htm
Lingomail - Israeli:
http://www.lingomail.com/
Foxmail (free) - Chinese:
http://hotfiles.zdnet.com/cgi-bin/texis/swlib/hotfiles/info.html?fcode=000X12&b=
http://www.softwareblast.com/entries/00000f89.sml
Don't remember which of the above urls is best.
SouthSoft, Inc. - PMMail & PMINews
http://www.southsoft.com/
Many like this, I haven't tried it.
Hope that helps.
Douglas
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