Hello, fellow Bat-lovers.
Although I may have alluded to it briefly months ago, I don't
believe this issue has been discussed here. I am surprised no one
reads their mail the way I do, but that appears to be the case.
I read my email at both home and work. I subscribe to several
high-volume mailing lists, so I get a lot of messages (I am a
died-in-the-wool member of E-mailaholics International). Because I do
have to get SOME work done, there are some mailing lists I don't
read at work--but I do read some, as well as all non-list, non-spam
messages.
I like to save important messages both places for future reference.
Also, I want to make sure that once I have received the messages at
work, I also receive them at home, where I have more time for
in-depth reading (as in-depth as you can get with several hundred
messages!). To accomplish this, I have "Leave messages on server"
checked.
The problem is that with this setting enabled, my messages stay on
the server until I manually remove them, and my disk space allotment
fills up in a hurry. To counteract this, I try to use "Dispatch mail
on server" nightly.
Now, I find the "dispatch" option very difficult to use. I have
found very little documentation on the feature anywhere, and I have
no idea how the entries are sorted. I hope that they are sorted in
the order received by my server, but I'm not sure that is the case.
At any rate, this is how my cleanup procedure looked last night:
There were 251 messages (fewer than I often have). All had the
"Read" column checked; 110-251 had "Receive" checked. Of those
marked "Receive", many were recognizable as ones I had downloaded
and read at work. However, because I did not check several of my
mailing lists at work, I couldn't be sure where the cutoff point was
(even if I could assume that they were listed in server order).
I used the menu option Global/Toggle flag/Delete (shortcut Ctrl+3)
to mark all messages for deletion. Then I had to find the last
message I remembered reading at work, and UNCHECK Delete for all
following messages (about 50 last night, but there might be several
hundred if it takes me very long to get to my email).
Finally, I used Message/Execute (F2) to delete all marked messages
and download the rest. I then crossed my fingers hoping that I
hadn't deleted anything I hadn't yet read.
Agent, which I used for my email for several years before switching
to The Bat!, has an option called "Leave message on server until
retrieved at both my sites", which allowed me to avoid all this. I
used to read email at both work and home with never any worry about
receiving all messages both places, or about messages piling up at
the server.
I know that TB has the option "Keep messages on server for x days".
I prefer not to use this option because a couple of my mailing lists
only get read once a week or so, and I can't wait that long to clean
up the server.
Is no one else dealing with this problem? Can you tell me if "Leave
message on server until retrieved at both my sites" has been
requested for version 2?
Also, can anyone tell me how to find out more about how Message
Dispatcher works? And how do the rest of you use it?
TIA.
--
Keith Russell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Using The Bat! 1.41 under Windows 98 4.10 Build 1998 on a Pentium II 233 with 64 MB.
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