--> Thursday, January 29, 2004, 10:45:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, Ive been a bat user for about 1year or so now. I feel it is one of > the best out there. About 3 weeks ago I started trying out Becky! email > client. Im pretty impressed. Im in the trial version of becky! and still > deciding on whether or not to purchase it or not. Im going back and > forth on this. Any other TB! users here use Becky! or have used it in > the past? What were your decision on going with either one. My ultimate > email client would be a combination of Becky! and TB! all in one client > (TB!ecky) :). Just checking if Im the only one out there who has gone > through this or not. > - -- > Darrin
I have most definitely gone through it and still consider it on a semi-regular basis. I always try to keep up. One big thing Becky has going for it is the advanced programmatic customization. In general, Becky does not match TB in features, but as a programmer, I am tempted to use Becky's wonderful API to add those things I do need, or just download one of the very many customizations other developers have written. I have quantified the other differences between TB and Becky which I find important and for which TB is generally superior across the board. It is available in a terse spreadsheet, on the yahoo groups becky list and on the semi-official becky web-based forum at mickeytheman.com. My only other considerations at this point are the now open source client Phoenix (in the preferred Delphi, like TB) (which I would fork and customize), or possibly a client from scratch using a combination of Delphi and an pervasively embedded language such as Python or Lua. However, I'd be rather surprised if either of those things happened. Still, TB is the best for me currently, and has been for some time. Like Ultraedit, it is sometimes clumsy, but ultimately superior. I know what the competition can do to become much better competition, but that does not seem to happen, or happens too slowly. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.02.3 CE | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
