automatically archiving the Inbox
Hello, I have a read messages filter that moves messages in my Inbox that are more than 60 days old to an archive folder. The filter is active but it only works when I manually re-filter my Inbox. Is there some way to make this filter run automatically? I know it is recommended to keep the size of the Inbox small. Is it also recommended to keep the Sent Mail folder small? -- Regards, Mike F Mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re[2]: automatically archiving the Inbox
Chris, Thursday, January 20, 2005, 9:11:46 PM, you wrote: C Right-click on Inbox and go to properties. Check the box by Keep C messages in base for (days) and enter 60. Then, open your account C properties. Go to Deletion. Under Alternate Deletion, select C Move to the specified folder. Also check Use alternative C deletion method for purging folders. C Now, every time you purge your folders, the messages will be moved. Under Options - Preferences, I configured The Bat! to automatically C purge folders on exit. Thanks, I would have never guessed this behavior in a million years. However, does this mean that if I purge a folder other than my Inbox, its messages will go to the same folder I am using for my Inbox archive? I am asking because I don't see anything in Account Properties/Deletion that specifies that this behavior is for Inbox only. -- Regards, Mike F Mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re[2]: automatically archiving the Inbox
Chris, Thursday, January 20, 2005, 10:20:00 PM, you wrote: C Yes. But you can configure every other folder individually to C override the account wide settings. In that case, I am going to stick with manual filtering. Setting up all of those overrides is too much work for me. Thanks Chris for explaining all of this. C I was thinks of putting in a feature request regarding this. The C deletion settings under the account properties would be the default C for every folder. However, each folder (including the Inbox) could C have its own settings. At the top of the tab within the folder's C properties, there could be a checkbox that says something along the C lines of Define folder-specific settings that would enable custom C deletion settings for that folder. This interface would be similar to C setting up address book templates. C Thoughts? I think hooking archive functionality into alternative deletion and purging is very cryptic. I think there should be a clearly named Archive property at the folder level. There could also be an Archive property at the account level but I wouldn't have any use for it. -- Regards, Mike F Mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
inbox lost again!
I can't believe it. I lost all the messages (over 1,000) in my inbox again. I am running Windows ME with The Bat 2.01.3. I just finished installing Windows Media Player 9 and it said Do you want to reboot now? so I clicked OK. The Bat was open at the time and I had the Compress all folders on exit option selected. I saw The Bat begin compressing folders but I am not sure if it finished because I looked away. However, something went wrong because instead of restarting, my screen went black. After I hit the reset switch and Windows restarted, my inbox had 0 messages in it! This time the inbox doesn't seem to be corrupted because I can still receive new messages. C:\WINDOWS\TEMP is 99MB at the moment. The Folder Maintenance - Check Integrity/Repair says nothing to do with my inbox. -- Regards, Mike Frantz Mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Mike F [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Stefan Tanurkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, January 18, 2004, 5:19:18 AM Subject: inbox corrupted - Christmas Edition (reposted) Stefan, Sunday, January 18, 2004, 4:18:45 AM, you wrote: ST The problem might be in your TEMP directory - the slowdown and the ST directory's size (4 G) tells clearly about that. Basically, you ST can easily remove all files with the .TMP extension from there and ST add the line OK, my TEMP directory is now 74MB. ST Another thing - check integrity of your Inbox folders using the ST Folder|Maintenance, they might become damaged somehow... The Folder Maintenance - Check Integrity/Repair function might have solved my problem if I had known about it. I have already reinstalled The Bat and recovered from a backup so it's too late now to fix it. I will remember this function if I run into this again. Thanks for your help. -- Regards, Mike F Mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Current version is 2.02.3 CE | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re[4]: inbox corrupted - Christmas Edition
Allie, Sunday, January 18, 2004, 1:59:22 AM, you wrote: AM Maybe. That's a huge amount of temp files. Any reason for the AM build up? AM I suggest downloading and running this application pretty regularly: AM http://www.danish-shareware.dk/soft/emptemp/index.html No reason for the build up. I just have been negligent on maintenance issues. Thanks, I will check out the program. AM ZA is known to suddenly start causing problems. I would never wave AM its involvement aside simply based on the fact that it has so far AM not cause problems. I've read many accounts of and personally AM experienced the contrary. Fair enough. I have also read complaints about Zone Alarm on this list. -- Regards, Mike F Mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Current version is 2.02.3 CE | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re[2]: inbox corrupted - Christmas Edition (reposted)
Stefan, Sunday, January 18, 2004, 4:18:45 AM, you wrote: ST The problem might be in your TEMP directory - the slowdown and the ST directory's size (4 G) tells clearly about that. Basically, you ST can easily remove all files with the .TMP extension from there and ST add the line OK, my TEMP directory is now 74MB. ST Another thing - check integrity of your Inbox folders using the ST Folder|Maintenance, they might become damaged somehow... The Folder Maintenance - Check Integrity/Repair function might have solved my problem if I had known about it. I have already reinstalled The Bat and recovered from a backup so it's too late now to fix it. I will remember this function if I run into this again. Thanks for your help. -- Regards, Mike F Mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Current version is 2.02.3 CE | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
inbox corrupted - Christmas Edition
I have been using The Bat for years without any problems. I am running Windows ME and recently upgraded to the Christmas Edition (2.03.3). Last night I opened The Bat and started receiving my new messages. On the last message, message 88 out of 88, it gave an error like Could not store message, saving as C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\bat81C4.TMP. (This is not the precise wording of the error message but it is pretty close.) And it would continue very slowly saving messages in C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\ with different filenames. I got tired of watching it do this, so I shut it down and restarted the program. After restarting, it did the exact same thing: received 88 messages, the same error, and started writing messages to C:\WINDOWS\TEMP. Next I downgraded to 2.00.6 but I could not access any of the over 1,600 messages in my inbox. The message count was correct but the inbox appeared completely blank. The other folders were fine. (By the way, I definitely had View/Display/All Messages selected.) I downgraded to version 1.62 but it was the same. I opened the file for my inbox, MESSAGES.TBB, in a text editor and could see my messages that way. My guess is that the format for this file was corrupted and The Bat could no longer read it. I was fortunate that I had a full backup from December 30, 2003. I tried restoring the backup using version 1.62 but it just froze. So I completely uninstalled The Bat, then installed version 2.01.3, and restored the backup. Everything is fine now except I lost this month's messages and my address book. I think I lost my address book because unless you change the default, it only backs up Trusted Root CA. Overall the damage for me was pretty minimal because I had a backup but I hope RITLabs looks into this issue. -- Regards, Mike F Mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Current version is 2.02.3 CE | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re[2]: inbox corrupted - Christmas Edition
Thomas, Saturday, January 17, 2004, 10:09:22 PM, you wrote: TF Take a look at this message directly on the server. Either message 88, TF or 87. One of them may be damaged. Unfortunately, I didn't think of this at the time. Those messages are long gone from the server now. -- Regards, Mike F Mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Current version is 2.02.3 CE | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re[2]: inbox corrupted - Christmas Edition
Allie, Saturday, January 17, 2004, 10:53:31 PM, you wrote: AM - Do you compress your Inbox regularly? The Inbox will grow to AM enormous sizes for those who download a lot of mail, even though AM the mail may be filtered to other folders. Copies of all mail AM remain in the Inbox message base until you do a compression. No, I wasn't compressing my inbox. This probably explains why it was getting slower and slower to display messages every time I clicked on the inbox folder! I've set the inbox to compress on exit now. Thanks for pointing this out. AM - What's the size of your Temp folder? Is it massive and making you run AM low on disk space. TB! always saves messages to your temp folder while AM downloading. If there's no space to do this or the saving to temp AM folder operation is interfered with, the downloading process will be AM affected. I have 16GB free on my hard disk. C:\WINDOWS\TEMP is 4GB. Does it matter if the TEMP folder is large if I have plenty of free space? AM - Are you running any antivirus software that checks incoming mail. AM They're notorious for affecting TB! mail download. This can be a AM sporadic and rather unpredictable at times, so the fact that you've AM not been having problems doesn't rule it out as being the problem now. I am running ZoneAlarm 3.7.098 so that could be an issue although I more suspicious of Bat CE because that is the only recent change to my configuration. -- Regards, Mike F Mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Current version is 2.02.3 CE | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
inbox corrupted - Christmas Edition (reposted)
I am reposting this message because I originally sent it as a reply when it should have been a new message. I have been using The Bat for years without any problems. I am running Windows ME and recently upgraded to the Christmas Edition (2.03.3). Last night I opened The Bat and started receiving my new messages. On the last message, message 88 out of 88, it gave an error like Could not store message, saving as C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\bat81C4.TMP. (This is not the precise wording of the error message but it is pretty close.) And it would continue very slowly saving messages in C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\ with different filenames. I got tired of watching it do this, so I shut it down and restarted the program. After restarting, it did the exact same thing: received 88 messages, the same error, and started writing messages to C:\WINDOWS\TEMP. Next I downgraded to 2.00.6 but I could not access any of the over 1,600 messages in my inbox. The message count was correct but the inbox appeared completely blank. The other folders were fine. (By the way, I definitely had View/Display/All Messages selected.) I downgraded to version 1.62 but it was the same. I opened the file for my inbox, MESSAGES.TBB, in a text editor and could see my messages that way. My guess is that the format for this file was corrupted and The Bat could no longer read it. I was fortunate that I had a full backup from December 30, 2003. I tried restoring the backup using version 1.62 but it just froze. So I completely uninstalled The Bat, then installed version 2.01.3, and restored the backup. Everything is fine now except I lost this month's messages and my address book. I think I lost my address book because unless you change the default, it only backs up Trusted Root CA. Overall the damage for me was pretty minimal because I had a backup but I hope RITLabs looks into this issue. -- Regards, Mike F Mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Current version is 2.02.3 CE | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
