>Thomas F <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 07/18/2002 01:00 PM: >Kindly resend your message in a readable form. Thank you. Without rekeying the entire response, the gist regarding reply formats is that since "top replies" are the norm at my office and I had not used TBUDL all that much until very recently, I had forgotten the rule about not using "top replies" and apologized for not following TB protocol. More to the point, at the office, we use Lotus Notes, and, as far as I know there is no protocol for automatically inserting quote marks, carrets, or any other symbol before lines of "old text" in a reply. Thus, in order to respond in the format preferred by The Bat's UDL rules, one has to go through the tedious task of inserting a carret before each line of old text. However, one solution is for me to use a different color "pen" as I am doing in this sentence. However, I am not sure that all recipients would see this formatting. As for the substantive part of the message: >>>> How does one go about setting up The Bat on a home network ... >>> ... you can set up BAT that it downloads the mail, but it leaves on >>> the server. ... Another alternative is you keep the mail on the >>> server for 1 or 2 days. > >Correct. >> what if the laptop user downloads a second time before the desktop >> user has a chance to download >Nothing. Each user will only download once. But I only want mail to be stored on one computer...the desktop. Hard drive real estate on the laptop is more precious and I don't want to store mail on it. >There is a mechanism to >ensure this. Already received messages are ignored. Even if downloaded by a different computer on the network? >Set both systems to keep on server for 2 days and it will all tick along very nicely >(unless one of the systems misses a mail fetch for more than two days) This is likely. The desktop will download daily or every two days. The laptop may go for 1-10 days before it's used to read mail. >> I didn't ask the question, but I would also like to insure that any >> mail that is composed and sent from the laptop is also stored on the >> main (desktop) drive, rather than on the laptop. This way, all mail >> is in one place and readily accessible. > >BCC it back to yourself. But, again, I only want mail to be in one place, on the desktop. >Alternatively to the "leave on server" scheme: >1) Configure TB in client / server mode. This is not a very well known > or practiced configuration but is *is* in the help file. Please explain what it means to "configure TB in client/server mode. Thanks. 2) Configure TB to use a shared path on the network as the root for the MAIL folder and work on the same real files. I believe someone else suggested this as well. When I get around to doing this in the next few weeks, I think it is likely that I will try one of these alternatives. How does one configure TB to use a shared path on the network? -- Avi Avram Sacks [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________ Current Ver: 1.61 FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug Reports: https://www.ritlabs.com/bt/
