On Saturday, March 11, 2000, Keith Russell wrote:
> ... Now, I find the "dispatch" option very difficult to use.
You're not alone.
> I have found very little documentation on the feature anywhere, and I
> have no idea how the entries are sorted.
It's probably the least documented major component of TB, but with POP
accounts its features are pretty basic.
> I hope that they are sorted in the order received by my server, but
> I'm not sure that is the case.
Seems to be.
> At any rate, this is how my cleanup procedure looked last night:
<snip>
Ugh! If you are only concerned about having 'important messages'
available at both places, might not it be easier to forward important
messages to yourself at your work address. So, you could check
messages during the day, leaving them on the server. Then, from home,
download and delete all messages, including any new ones that have
arrived since you last checked at work. Then, forward to your work
address any messages you want to have available at work, assuming that
"important" doesn't mean tons of messages. If you get a few duplicates
at work, they'd be pretty easy to delete. Seems less work to me than
what you do now.
> 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.
What happens if a user has more than 2 sites?
> 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.
I don't understand what you mean here. If you've downloaded the messages
at both work and home, why can't you set TB to automatically delete
messages from the server every 2-3 days? Or, are you selectively
downloading?
> Is no one else dealing with this problem?
Yes, but they use other solutions, like transporting the message base
back and forth on zip disks.
> Can you tell me if "Leave message on server until retrieved at both my
> sites" has been requested for version 2?
Don't think so.
> Also, can anyone tell me how to find out more about how Message
> Dispatcher works?
You seem to have uncovered about all there is to the Mail Dispatcher
with a POP account.
> And how do the rest of you use it?
Before using TB, I used Calypso, which despite its other limitations,
handles dealing with messages on a POP server about the nicest way I've
ever seen in a mailer. So, I used to always review messages before
downloading, since downloading my e-mail can take quite a bit of time
and I'm not interested in most messages I receive. With TB, however, the
Mail Dispatcher is such a limited tool that I quickly abandoned trying
to preview messages. It ends up taking more time than downloading all
the messages.
--
Paula Ford
The Bat! 1.41 (reg)
Windows 95 4.0 Build 950
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