Hi Dwight, Friday, July 18, 2008, 5:05:37 PM, you wrote:
> I would be interested to know what features I am missing. I too tried > lots of those other mailers, such as thunderbird, mulberry, pegasus, > eudora, outlook, outlook express. I hated them all, and actually > outlook the least. TB! has counting issues.To me, a mailbox which has > eight messages but says 2 or 2 messages and says 8 once in a while is > slightly annoying, but not a show stopper. You are clearly more knowledgeable about IMAP than I, but based upon the above, I now have set up TB for my Gmail IMAP and am liking it. > The search functions work fine. I get all my messages, I can see > from one machine to another what was sent, and I have all the good > things about the bat which I like. Amen. I also liked Pegasus for POP for years, as I have mentioned. > I've been running IMAP since version 2 and in version 2 it had > problems. That is why I looked at most of those other choices. I'd > feel no need to try anything else now, other than just curiosity. I > just looked at the eudora/thunderbird hybrid's on line documentation > today, and it doesn't even contain the work threading anywhere in the > documentation, except in the wishlist section. If I have any further GREAT or TERRIBLY experience to report with TB for my Gmail IMAP (comparing it to, say, Outlook 2003 or Evolution), I'll post it. I gather that the main issue in TB with IMAP usage is the counting? I'm not too concerned about that, so far at least. -- Take Care, Bob -- Using The Bat! 4.0.26.2 Windows XP 5.1 build 2600 Service Pack 3 ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.0.24.0 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
