-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, January 07, 2004 8:59:11 PM
Hi, I was sitting down reading my latest CPU magazine and they had a software review article on TB!. Heres the article: "Just because Microsoft, Eudora, and Netscape/Mozilla account for roughly 90% of the email programs most Windows users use doesn’t mean that what remains isn’t worth checking out. PocoMail, Pegasus Mail, and The Bat! each has its own following and advantages over the mainstream mailers. The latest beta from The Bat! has me thinking that it’s starting to pull away from its immediate competitors. The Bat! has been around for years and was considered the power emailer’s client choice because it was fast, had a great template set, a powerful (if underutilized plug-in set), and eschewed HTML mail. Version 2 added some support for HTML mail, a much more powerful LDAP-compatible address book, and for some users, a whole host of bugs. Recent betas have been chasing these bugs away, and as a longtime user, I can say 2.01.50 seems ready for primetime. Unchanged is TB’s speed, which is awesome. Even on a notebook, TB flies through downloads, uploads, and message rendering. Unlike other programs that should know better, you don’t need the mouse to blast through message lists. This is partially due to TB not displaying and downloading embedded or linked graphics in HTML mail and partially because the HTML rendering is just the basics, but this offers a level of viral protection simply not available with anything from Microsoft. (Clicking a button displays HTML mail in an Internet Explorer window for those times you must see an entire graphical message.) TB’s plug-ins now finally have a real use outside of antivirus: antispam. There are a few third-party antispam modules (most Bayesian) available, along with downloadable mailboxes filled with thousands of junk-mail messages to quickly train them. I found these as good as Apple’s junk mail filters—high praise, indeed. TB is a little expensive ($35) in the face of free email programs, but if you live and die by email, you’ll find it a bargain." - -- Darrin The Bat 2.02.3 CE - --PGP Key Request-- http://www.speakeasy.org/~drich/pgp.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP SDK 3.0.3 Comment: "PGP with TheBat! " iQA/AwUBP/zkrKjEhiEqmMp2EQJ0DACg9mVKSeMU3oq78rBcFmWqKxGXEj4An2VA I2OoTcyrSvgzgAaGfxm7Rn4G =IFgW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.02.3 CE | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
