Vishal, [V] wrote: V> Interesting to read about your experiences. I haven't faced anything V> like as severe the problems that you have. It is only TB that V> misbehaves with ZA. For you TB is irreplaceable, but I have yet to V> start using the advanced features like Quick templates that everyone V> keeps raving about on here, on a regular basis. Perhaps when I do TB V> will appear more useful. For the moment it doesn't appear to be V> especially ahead of its competitors.
The thing with TB! is that if you wish for it to behave just like some of the mainstream clients, you'll get frustrated and think it's flaky. The editor will drive you nuts, trying to create a simple signature may seem overly complicated, the interface may seem to be without flare etc. :) TB! changed how I handled mail and it's real power comes from how it allows you to *easily* manage large amounts of mail and how *easily* it allows you to be diverse in how you present mail to others and how you handle incoming mail. If all you do is download mail to your inbox without much filtering, use a single signature and a single set of templates, always use only the main window with a single address book group and no address book templates then TB! may not seem more useful than other solutions except from a security POV. V> Out of interest, could you list a few features of TB that you find V> especially unique/indispensable/valuable? - TB!'s 'pesky' editor (microEd) that produces such a love/hate relationship among users is one. It gives me unrivaled pleasure to use an editor that I'm confident is *always* displaying the format of the message as it will be sent. It's really frustrating to receive poorly formatted mail and the sender is unaware of this since it looked good on their screen before sending. The editor's text reflowing options also makes possible, what would otherwise be tedious. Since most of MicroEds actions are keyboard shortcut triggered, using it in conjunction with a Macro makes it a real pleasure to use and makes it possible for me to use it with other clients like my newsreader. - TB!'s templates are now indispensable to me. In my pre-TB! days, I used basically one signature since doing otherwise would be a tedious task. I'd also use a single identity in that all mail would be from Allie Martin. TB! has allowed me to be more diverse with my signatures since I can now easily use different signatures based on who or what group I'm writing to. Quick templates are very useful in that they centralize your templates. What I mean here is that you may have a macro that you use in multiple templates in your address book or folders. You can create this macro as a quick template and call it in your other templates using the %Qinclude=<quick template> macro. The advantage here is that if you wish to modify the quick template, its modification would affect all templates which uses the quick template. I also use quick templates for specific things like box quoting, pasting in my message blocks of text I use frequently for example, moderatorial stuff, to manually change my signatures or quoting what's on the clipboard which is a little different from pasting as a quotation using the editor. - You can browser folders in separate windows. In this way, you can actually be browsing multiple folders concurrently. This is impossible with other clients where you're bound to viewing messages only via the main window. It's not unusual that you'll be reading a particular message and then wish to review another message. With TB!, you can open this other message in a separate window if you like without disturbing where you had reached in the other message. This improves your efficiency and flexibility. It's also a good thing that you can specifically taylor your message list columns for specific folders depending on their contents. - The ticker virtual folder has profoundly changed my new mail handling style. The ticker virtual folder displays all messages that are picked up by the ticker. You can configure the ticker to display new messages only for particular folders. In this way, I can browse new messages from particular folders from a single message list. - TB!'s filtering is great and allows for a lot of possibilities. It also allows me to pick important incoming messages out of the heavy traffic through the use of sounds and using colour groups. - I like TB!'s PGP integration. With its macro support, I can automate my PGP use in terms of signing +/- encrypting outgoing messages. There are other niceties, but these are the winning features for me that I can never really duplicate while trying other Windows clients. -- -= allie_M =- | List Moderator PGPKeys: http://www.ac-martin.com/pgpkeys.html _
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