Kitty, [K] wrote: I thought I'd comment on a couple points you made here.
I do appreciate that you're likely aware of how TB! implements similar feature sets if they do exist but in case others, old and new aren't aware there are a couple 'hidden' features. K> 5. Where someone's e-mail address is in the from portion of the K> e-mail this is a small cross next to the name. Click on it and it K> adds them to the address book. Again, I just found this very K> intuitive and easy to do. IMO, this is a good point. It's not so obvious that you can right click the information in the various fields of the header bar in TB! to get a list of similar choices. A button there does show the user that there's something to do. Who would think of right clicking text on a bar? :) K> 6. For many mailing lists, there is a field called List info. K> Click on it and it gives the posting, subscribing and unsubscribing K> info. TB! has this as well, but it isn't so obvious. It's in the 'specials' menu but not as evident as it probably should. K> 7. Within a folder in the message index there is a tab called show K> all. You highlight a message and click on show all and there are K> many choices such as show all messages from that person, show all K> unread messages, show all messages after a certain date, show all K> messages before a certain date, shall messages with attachments, show K> all unencrypted mail, etc. This is a great way to have a K> large folder and only display a few of the messages without having to K> go through a search function. I used this function a *lot* in K> Pocomail. Two things to comment on here. One in TB!'s favour and one not so in its favour. - Very much in its favour and that which I use a lot for searching is the alt-click filter. If you hold down the Alt key while clicking on any item in the message list, TB! will display only those messages that contain the same item you clicked on. This can be any item in the message list, i.e., a From name, subject, attachment, flag status, message flag attribute. - Not so in its favour is that the useful Advanced Filter tool is so far from access. The other day, I wanted to use it and it took a few moments of deliberate searching to find it. Anyway, it's found by going to View/Display/Advanced Filtering. It has a lot of the options you mentioned. There's also the quick search which is activated by simply typing your search string with the message list in focus. I wish that were available for View Folder windows. K> I realize many might say they like how TB does things better than K> Pocomail or that TB can do the same as Pocomail through a different K> procedure. And, that is true. It is just that with Pocomail it was K> very intuitive and easy to do the above things and I personally like K> how Pocomail does it better than TB. Your comments were certainly worthwhile and appreciated. K> I also know TB does things Pocomail doesn't do. TB is much, much K> stronger on templates and somewhat stronger on filters (although K> Pocomail's are really quite powerful). And, TB does handled the K> intricacies of plain text better than Pocomail (although Pocomail was K> adequate for my needs). And, finally, Pocomail does seem slower and K> may not be able to handle really high mail volume. If you deal with high volume mail, TB! is extremely well suited for this. So much can be automated. -- -= allie_M =- | List Moderator PGPKeys: http://www.ac-martin.com/pgpkeys.html ____________________________________ Using TB! v2.01.26 on WinXP Pro (SP1)
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