On Wed, 9 Aug 2000 14:49:04 -0500, Curtis wrote:
>On Wed, 9 Aug 2000 12:09:07 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
>
>KP> "No one"?! I'm on my 2nd day of evaluating TB, after being a PMMail
>KP> power user. So far I'm *not* pleased at the amount of work I'm
>KP> having to do to get fairly simple functionality. I *don't* want all
>KP> the verbiage thrown in by the default templates.
>
>Uhm. Delete the verbiage from the templates and forget it?
That's what I ended up doing, but it's tedious to have to redo for 5
accounts and 5 different templates for each. How about using empty
default templates and allowing the user to drag and drop canned
templates where she wants them from a library?
>KP> Filters don't seem to work intuitively.
>Again, I'm wondering what you mean here. Intuitive to me here sounds
>like how PMMail did things.
>KP> Typing a piece of a To: string doesn't seem to be matching. (Do I
>KP> have to match the whole To: string?)
>No. Hmmm, I'm not having any problems where that is concerned.
It mostly worked. (BTW I meant From:, not To:.) I set up a final filter
that drops anything not addressed to me into a spam folder for
low-priority inspection. I set up two filters for friends that drop
mail with their name in the Sender field into their own folders under
my Friends folder. In those two cases their "broadcast" messages kept
falling through and going into my spam folder. Once there, I had to
move them back to the Inbox before I could retest a filter. Never got
that working. (I've since reverted to PMMail.)
>KP> TB also lacks PMMail's "filter builder" tool, in which one selects a
>KP> set of candidate messages and the filter builder creates a simple
>KP> filter based on the union of message senders. (OTOH, TB lets me
>KP> create the destination folder from the filter creation dialog,
>KP> something PMMail lacks.)
>That filter builder sounds like potential trouble but if it worked for
>you fine. I'd rather create my own filters manually.
Not so. Generally one sets up a filter whenever joining a new mailing
list, to send those messages to their own folder for later reading,
leaving the Inbox for high-priority stuff. With PMMail, the first few
messages will drop into my spam folder. I create a new folder for the
mailing list, select a candidate from the spam folder, and then select
"Filter Builder". This brings up the filter edit dialog with the fields
filled out based on guesses from the candidate message(s). (Essentially
it or's the From: fields.) I just change the action to Move to the new
folder. (This is one case where TB is nicer: I can create the folder as
part of the filter dialog, instead of before I start this process.) I
then tweak the filter to match what I really want in the message. (BTW,
the builder was added relatively recently after lots of requests from
users who didn't want to drill down the menus to the modal filter
dialog with lots of cutting and pasting from messages to do this.)
>a) Hit <CTRL><F4)
>b) Hold down the <SHIFT> key while hitting the reply toolbar button.
>c) Go to the Message -> Specials -> Reply quoting selected text
Found this. Why would one select text and *not* want this to happen by
default? Why the special keystroke?
>Version 2 almost certainly will support the use of an external editor.
>Marck, can you back me up on that one?
Cool. I may return later to try this again.
>been using TB! for just over a year. The things I do with TB! here I
>could never do with PMMail. All that I did with PMMail, I can do with
>TB!. It's just a matter of the features that mean the most to us.
What kinds of things are you doing in TB that PMMail lacks?
I'll probably return to try TB again in a few months.
Ken
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