Hello Jan,
Sorry it took so long to write back to you. This is my work e-mail
account and I was off for the weekend. :-)
Friday, June 29, 2001, 7:50:24 PM, you wrote:
JR> Could you give me some examples to illustrate the utility of
JR> Poco's scripting language vs the use of templates in TB!
Well, the Poco scripting language, although still a bit lacking, is
something that Poco just can not match.
Simply put, the ability to construct "IF", "IF THEN" conditions,
nested even, is VERY useful. Even though The Bat! has a very good
filters sometimes you just need a little bit more programmatic control.
TB! has FAR more template variables of the "%" like than Pocomail
does.
Bottom line for me is that although Pocomail has a scripting language
I would take, and HAVE taken, TB! over it any day. Hopefully when the
new vertsion of TB! comes out we'll be able to overcome this
shortcoming with "plugins".
JR> What are the qualities of TB! that make it such a superior
JR> email client in your opinion.
1. Speed. TB! retrieves messages faster in my opinion.
2. Size. Poco is a very attractive e-mail program. The best looking
one I have ever seen hands down. But, that comes at a heavy price of
consuming a lot of Windows resources.
The old version would consume all your available resources if left
running on a Windows 95/98 PC for a couple days straight. The new
version supposedly has fixed this problem.
3. There are FAR more hot keys available in TB!, and that are
configurable.
4. The filtering of the Bat is still more powerful than Pocomail but
Poco has made a HUGE leap in filtering capability in the new version.
I'll list more as I think of them. really, you should download the
evaluation version of Poco and see for yourself.
As I said, my wife uses the newest registered version of Poco and is
very happy with it. I think Poco is the second best e-mail program I
have ever used next to TB!, but, I hear that Becky is very good as
well.
Good luck!
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Using The Bat! v1.53d on Windows NT 5.0 Build 2195
Service Pack 2
Best regards,
Gerry Doyon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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