Hello, fellow Bat-lovers.
On Saturday, March 11, 2000, 2:19:00 PM, Paula wrote:
> On Saturday, March 11, 2000, Keith Russell wrote:
>> ... Now, I find the "dispatch" option very difficult to use.
> You're not alone.
Thanks. Sure glad it's not just me!
[snip]
>> 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.
Wish we could tell for sure....
>> 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.
I've actually considering doing it this way. The problem is that a
standard forward loses the sender information; a redirect will lose
other header information. I thus lose a lot of my searching capability.
>> 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?
You're out of luck 8-). At various times last year, I used Agent,
Becky!, The Bat!, Eudora, and probably others I've forgotten, as I
tried to decide on a new client. I would download the same messages
several times before I wanted them deleted from the server. Obviously,
in this situation, that feature was no help; I had to delete them from
the server manually. However, I usually used Becky's mail dispatcher
for this; it's much easier to use than TB's.
>> 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?
No, you're right, of course. Must have been super tired when I wrote
that one.... The real problem is that the messages really have to be
deleted every day or two, so if I set this option, I need to remember
to disable it before I leave on a trip for several days. Constantly
changing it back and forth is a nuisance.
>> 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.
As I mentioned in my response to Thomas, I don't consider this a
solution.
>> 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.
Thanks. I'll submit it.
>> 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.
It sounds like it isn't getting much use. Hopefully, 2.0 will have a
much better-thought-out dispatcher.
Thanks for the reply.
--
Keith Russell
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Using The Bat! 1.41 under Windows 98 4.10 Build 1998 on a Pentium II 233 with 64 MB.
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