Dear friends , Well, we've been using The Bat for a few days and are still attempting to tame the beast... We DO like the program but find it most regrettable to have to put so much work into learning how to use even a little bit of its obviously great potential (we found CNET's comments in their otherwise fair and positive 5/23 review of the program to be vast understatements of a reality that seems to have plagued countless users for quite a long time, as the TBUL archive shows. CNET says: "lacks wizards for creating filters" "menu structure is bewildering" "There's no wizard to walk you through the chore, just a multitabbed dialog that you must decipher on your own" "Tricky to configure" etc. Tricky to configure? No kidding! <g> The review is at http://www.cnet.com/software/0-3227888-8-6004206-2.html?tag=st.sw.3227888-8-6004206-1.arrow.3227888-8-6004206-2 for those who are curious.) Anyhow, I'm writing because something really strange happened yesterday. There was no computer crash or anything but suddenly The Bat started asking popping up a small new screen each time we tried to retrieve mail. Absolutely nothing was changed in the settings, aside from the "check mailbox at start-up" feature which was was turned on for each account (Properties, Options.) Now, unless the modem is already online, The Bat pops up a screen that forces the user to enter User Name, Password and Domain for EACH ONE of our many accounts. An incredible pain! We did cold reboots and checked the Dial-Up settings, to no mention every possible pull-down menu in The Bat!, to no avail. What happened? Can we fix this? There seems to be some wonderful people on this list. I sure hope you can help! Best, Miles Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Using The Bat! v1.52f on Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A -- ______________________________________________________ Archives : <http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com> Moderators : <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> TBTech List: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You are subscribed as : [email protected]
