Opening url with non-default browser
AJ I am pretty sure when I changed my default browser (from IE to Firefox) AJ my wife complained the following day that I had changed something AJ again. Indeed she was getting Firefox launched. C That was the point of my original message. I don't want to change the C default browser or e-mail client on my system. I don't want to C create a different account or identity or whatever in XP. MW You mean you let other people on your desktop! You let the kids (or the MW wife) have administrator rights? ! Yuck! :-) Sure, I hide all the illegal stuff. I let 'em drive my car. My computer, too, is just a dumb machine that's supposed to make my life easier. C It would be nice if The Bat let you select a browser. MW Please no, that's an OS feature... Yeah, right. That's why I've got a dozen programs that let me select outside editors, file viewers, e-mail programs, sound files, blah, blah, blah. Hey Bat authors, how about letting us choose a browser? -- Current version is 2.10.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Opening url with non-default browser
AJ I am pretty sure when I changed my default browser (from IE to Firefox) AJ my wife complained the following day that I had changed something AJ again. Indeed she was getting Firefox launched. That was the point of my original message. I don't want to change the default browser or e-mail client on my system. I don't want to create a different account or identity or whatever in XP. It would be nice if The Bat let you select a browser. -- Current version is 2.10.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Opening url with non-default browser
I share my home computer with the wife and kids. They use Internet Explorer and Outbreak Express, the system defaults. I use Opera and The Bat. Changing the defaults is not an option. When I click on a url in the body of a Bat message, I want to open it in Opera, the non-default browser. If there's a way of setting this, I can't find it. An option to designate a specific browser would be nice. -- Current version is 2.10.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Help me with a filter, please
CP Recently I began being plagued with spam that has this particular CP feature: The sender's name is random, but the sender's address is my CP own email address. I would like to filter and send these emails direct CP to the Trash folder. This works for me: 1. In your new message, reply, and forward templates, create a custom header field such as X-Junk and insert any text you want such as roses are red, violets are blue 2. Set up an incoming filter that sends to trash any message where (1) the sender's address is your e-mail address and (2) the kludges do _not_ contain X-Junk: roses are red, violets are blue. 3. Spams like this will go right to the dumper. Current version is 2.01.3 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Help me with a filter, please
Recently I began being plagued with spam that has this particular feature: The sender's name is random, but the sender's address is my own email address. I would like to filter and send these emails direct to the Trash folder. MM It is best to use POPFile (http://popfile.sourceforge.net/), or a MM similar Bayesian classification program, to classify SPAM and NO-SPAM. I disagree. Keep it simple. No external program or plug-in is necessary to solve this particular problem. The simplest and quickest solution is a filter such as the one in my previous post. %SETHEADER(X-Junk,roses are red, violets are blue) If the incoming mail is from your address, but doesn't have the above in the kludges, use a filter to send it to trash. This filter has been picking off 100% of these spams for me. Current version is 2.01.3 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Reply template oddity - any thoughts please?
AA So far so good - but when he receives a mail from one user and replies AA using the template above the reply has the word Message before the AA quoted text. So it would appear like this: AA MessageHi Fred...blah blah blah... I've noticed the same thing when I reply in plain text to an html message. Message appears at the very beginning of the quoted original message text. Current version is 2.00 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Over-ride BCC from template
You have to delete the bcc field immediately before hitting send. It's annoying. KK Thanks for the tip. It does work, but clicking in the body isn't KK enough. I have to actually type a character in the body, then go back KK up to the header and delete the field there. It's no big deal, just KK that I was used to doing it differently, with 1.x. Current version is 2.00 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Unpredictable filter actions
SS The [EMAIL PROTECTED] filters ARE before the list filters, as there are specific SS text phrases such as Ancient Toaist, throbbing erections and SS Saundanese Arab Method (I think you know the specific spam messages SS I am talking about!) and the text strings are specific and targeted. I have good success putting my spam catcher _after_ filters that look for stuff I want to keep and read. In other words, pick off the stuff you want to read _first_, route it to the appropriate folders, then run what's left through the spam filter(s). This method has the added advantage of avoiding a legitimate message accidentally getting treated as spam. For example, if someone in my address book sends me a message containing the phrase erection of a new bridge over the Swatara Creek, it gets filtered to my known folder, even though erection is a word my spam filter, later, will look for. If the spam filter is first, this good message would get trashed. Anything that doesn't get picked off by any filter, including the spam catcher, I route to my unknown folder. The unknown filter comes last. Known filter(s) Spam filter(s) Unknown filter Current version is 1.62r | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Unexpected Behavior of Known Filter
I bcc: myself all the time. Doesn't everybody? TF I used to. Namely when I was replying to private mails while I was in TF the office; when I bcc'ed myself, I could download my replies at home TF as well. I started this practice when I was still using Netscape Mail, TF and that client has a nice option: Automatically send a copy of each TF message to this address: In TB, I have to add the BCC macro to TF each template. I wish I could activate such a feature on Account TF level, as I could in Netscape. TF Any seconders? Nah. It's pretty easy to add it as a macro in your 3 basic templates. I bcc: myself because I frequently get into back and forth discussions and I like seeing my messages in the inbox, chronologically, with every one else's responses. Current version is 1.62r | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Unexpected Behavior of Known Filter
MW Of course, at this point I suppose I should bring up the question of MW why your own address is in your address book? If it weren't then the MW correct filtering event would have occurred... I bcc: myself all the time. Doesn't everybody? I appreciate the responses on this subject, and I think I'll follow the advice to use a normal filter. Thanks to everybody. Chris Coyle Current version is 1.62r | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Unexpected Behavior of Known Filter
I'm using 1.63 Beta 11 with Windows 98. I have the Known filter activated, and I have it move knowns to a sub-folder of the Inbox, Inbox\Known. Otherwise, they go to another sub-folder of the Inbox, Inbox\Unknown. Worked great until I received a spam, in Inbox\Known, from someone who was definitely not in my address book. Here are the headers: == Received: from iafitim [216.247.132.30] by mail.henrybeaver.com (SMTPD32-6.06) id A81FE8D10056; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 14:21:19 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Nolan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Increase your sizelo X-Priority: 3 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:17:48 -0200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary==_NextPart_003_0057_XPOCVLVJ.UQFTKQVS X-RCPT-TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-UIDL: 346621659 Status: U == All I could think of was that the spammer's sticking _my_ address in the Reply-To: and/or the X-RCPT-TO: somehow fooled the Known filter, since _my_ address was in my address book. Sure enough, when I deleted my address from the address book, TB stopped sending it to Inbox\Known, and put it in Inbox\Unknown. Seems to me it shouldn't work that way. Chris Coyle Current version is 1.62r | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Unexpected Behavior of Known Filter
MM Hmmm ... what should not work which way? It seems to me that if an MM email is received with a 'from address' that is in your address MM book it should be sent to the 'known' box. Just out of curiosity MM ... what would you expect to work differently? No. That's my point, it _wasn't_ received with a 'from address' that was in my address book. It was received with a 'from address' that _was not_ in my AB. Quoting from the Sorting Office window: The Known filter allows you to separate incoming mail by the presence of the _sender's address_ in your address book (My emphasis) It appears to me that the Known filter was not triggering just on the sender's address - the From: field - but also on the Reply-To: and/or X-RCPT-TO: field in the spam's header, into which the spammer had inserted _my address_, which _is_ in my address book. The Known filter should trigger _only_ on the From: field, not on any other field in the header, right? Otherwise, a spammer - or any unknown - could stick a recipient's address in another header field and defeat the filter (assuming the recipient has his own address in his AB). Or, is the Known filter intended to trigger whenever an address in one's address book is _anywhere_ in the incoming headers? Chris Coyle Current version is 1.62r | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
