Configuration of URL Download Manager behind a proxy
Hi all, I have to say that I was eager to try out V.4 's URL Download Manager in order to have some well-chosen messages correctly displayed with The Bat. I may be missing something here but I can't manage to get it to work. I'm using TB at work, where I'm behind a proxy, and this may be the reason why it doesn't work. But let me explain my configuration. I discovered a couple of years ago that in order to have the version checker work from behind a proxy a urlmgr.xml file was to be created in the default mail directory, containing urlmgr proxy host=proxy_url port=proxy_port enabled=true /urlmgr [it was a post from Marek] and apparently it allowed me to check the version file. This file has never changed since, and now I can see that this file contains all the URL that I have declared as allowed or blocked, so I'm quite sure this is the right file. Unfortunately it is the whole functionality of the Download Manager which does not convince me since I tried: * home (no proxy), with proxy disabled in the file * at work (proxy), with proxy enabled, then disabled in the file but in no case TB did download the images in the mail. Is anybody enjoying a working Download Manager? What can I check to diagnose the problem? Thanks for the help and time. -- Best regards, Philippe. Current version is 4.0.18 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Configuration of URL Download Manager behind a proxy
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Marek Mikus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: check Account log (Ctrl+Shift+A), where program logs communication with mail and HTTP servers, so You can see if was image downloaded and if not, what is the reason. I tried, but I see no information whatsoever in the log. Is it supposed to download images every time you access a message, or does it download it just once, when you access it for the first time, for instance? Thanks for your reply. -- Best regards, Philippe. Current version is 4.0.18 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Confirmation required to delete a message
Leonard S. Berkowitz wrote: I just installed the 3.85.03 home edition. Now, every message that I attempt to delete requires confirmation. I usually delete message with the forward or back arrow, and not the trash can. I looked in Account Properties and could find no setting to skip confirmation. Is there away to avoid confirmation on deletion? Thanks. Leonard, I noticed that new behavior with 3.85.03 pro: I think it's a new setting, you can find in Options / Preferences / Other Options / Confirmations My guess is that you're looking for Delete message(s) from text preview area: just uncheck. -- Best regards, Philippe. Using The Bat! 3.85.03 Current version is 3.85.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Version check
Hi all, I've just downloaded the new TB version (no problems so far), but I'm afraid that the version check feature is not proxy-enabled, am I right? If I'm behing a proxy, is there any way to have this feature working? Thanks. -- Best regards, Philippe. Using The Bat! 3.85.01 Current version is 3.85.02 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re[2]: Problems with backup
Alexander S. Kunz wrote: Hello Philippe Macaire everyone else, on 30-Aug-2006 at 10:06 you (Philippe Macaire) wrote: Any experience, someone? None with TBs backup and that sizes - but what happens when you set up a similar backup event with ntbackup? You could compare the results of the incremental backup with those from TB and see if its any different. Thanks for the pointer to ntbackup, but I would really like to have a more efficient backup using TB (I'm currently using a free version of SyncBack, a really nice product for backup and syncronization -- check here: http://www.2brightsparks.com/). Actually, I tried to cleanup a bit my accounts, by moving old messages into special (Common) folders. Then I made a full maintenance operation (compression, integrity check, ecc.). Unfortunately I don't know which of the two operations made things work, but now my incremental backup (excluding the huge common folders) works like a breeze! Next time I will try to separate these two operations in order to check which one may have been the actual solution. Thanks for the help anyway. -- Best regards, Philippe. Using The Bat! 3.80.06 Current version is 3.80.06 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Problems with backup
Hi everyone, I'm trying to use the incremental backup feature of The Bat! but I'm having a bit of trouble. I have several accounts, one of them much bigger than the others (for work), with something like 70.000 mails, and a lot of quite big attachments. The resulting backup file is something like 2.4 GB. I don't seem to have problems in backing up all my accounts at once. The problem arises when I try to do an incremental backup (which I would like to do once a day), because the resulting file is almost as big as the full backup one, and it takes way too long (it works as if it weren't incremental at all). What's strange is that when I exclude from my backup my big account, everything works fine, and the backup file is reasonably small. I was wondering if the account dimension, or that of one of its subfolders, could be a problem. Note that the account is configured to store attachments in message bodies. Any experience, someone? Thanks for your help. -- Best regards, Philippe. Using The Bat! 3.80.06 Current version is 3.80.06 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Icons for files in attachment pane
Hi all, I noticed that sometimes the icons showing in the attachment pane do not match the corresponding file type. For instance (see attached image), an EML file is shown with an MS Project icon. In some rare occasions it does not show at all. I suspected my Windows XP SP2 to be corrupted in some way, but had it installed from scratch a couple of months ago, and it did not change anything to this behavior. Does it happen to anybody else? Thank you. -- Best regards, Philippe. Using The Bat! 3.80.06 Current version is 3.80.06 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
New Customizer behavior
Hi all, I'm trying to create a menu container with the new menu customizer, but it seems I can't add a new Action to the newly created menu container... I remember on the old customizer a button which allowed to add an action to a container, but apparently it disappeared, so I have to admit there is another way to achieve the same result. How can I do that? Thanks a lot in advance. -- Best regards, Philippe. Using The Bat! 3.80.03 Current version is 3.71.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re[2]: New Customizer behavior
Simon wrote: PM I remember on the old customizer a button which allowed PM to add an action to a container, but apparently it PM disappeared, so I have to admit there is another way to PM achieve the same result. Select the container (highlight). Highlight the item you require in the container, then hold SHFT and click the right arrow button in the interface. Thanks a lot, Simon: it works! But it doesn't seem much intuitive to me... It ought to be well documented in the help file. -- Best regards, Philippe. Using The Bat! 3.80.03 Current version is 3.71.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re[2]: Shortcuts not saved
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: since I upgraded to 3.71.03, it seems some of my shortcuts are not saved. [...] Before this last upgrade I had no problems with such shortcuts. Did anyone experienced a similar behavior? Yes, I lost all of my shortcuts when I upgraded to my current TB! version, from another recent 3.x version. Next time, just manually back up the drive:\Documents and Settings\You\Application Data\The Bat!\tbuser.DEF file prior to upgrading, to avoid trouble in having to re-create some or all of your keyboard shortcuts. Thanks for the reply, but I did backup my tbuser.DEF, and this was not the problem. I'll try to explain the phenomenon more in detail: * go to the Customise dialog * pick up a menu item without a shortcut (in my setup: Main Menu / Main Form - Message / Park) * you can verify that no shortcut is defined on this item (nothing is selectable) * assign Alt-\ as shortcut, and close the Customise dialog * in the main menu (Message / Park) you can check that the shortcut is correctly assigned (and it works) * shutdown and restart The Bat! * in the main menu (Message / Park) the shortcut no longer appears * in the Customise dialog, if you select the Park item you can see that an *empty* shortcut exists, you can remove it, but it is no longer working as Alt-\ I have the impression that the issue is with the backslash. I could use another key as shortcut of course, but on my keyboard it is really handy, and I've been using it for a lot of time... Can any of you confirm this? Is this a bug that should be reported? Thanks. -- Best regards, Philippe. Using The Bat! 3.71.03 Current version is 3.71.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Shortcuts not saved
Hi all, since I upgraded to 3.71.03, it seems some of my shortcuts are not saved. Apparently it happens when my shortcut contains the '\' (backslash) character (e.g. Ctrl+Shift+\). I can define it, then use it as long as TB is running, but as soon as I close and run again TB, my shortcut has been cleared. Before this last upgrade I had no problems with such shortcuts. Did anyone experienced a similar behavior? Thanks a lot. -- Best regards, Philippe. Using The Bat! 3.72.02 (Beta) Current version is 3.71.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re[2]: Send mails as attachments
Fredrik Bergström wrote: Do you know of a better approach to do this? I'd like to be able to drag and drop a mail directly from the message list into the new mail, for instance. Try selecting a e-mail and just drag-n-drop it to the e-mail you are editing, works for me. Or maybe I misunderstood your question? ;) Ops!... It works here too... :$ I've been missing this one for all these years... TB is really the best! I can explain why I missed it in the first place: I always have my main TB window maximized, and when I drag-and-drop (e.g. attachments from a mail to another) I do so by dragging to the task bar, hovering over the button representing my other message window and dropping on the now focused window (not easy to explain, I hope you get the picture). This does not work with a mail dragged directly from the message list (nor does it work to drag and drop to the desktop -- may be related). It works if I unmaximize my main window and simply drag from one window to the other. I think I can live with this one ;-) Thanks for the time Fredrik. -- Best regards, Philippe. Using The Bat! 3.65.03 Current version is 3.65.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re[2]: Send mails as attachments
MAU wrote: Or you can start dragging and then Alt+Tab to the new message window. And here it is! I finally have it working like a breeze! :-) Thanks a lot Miguel for this really nice advice. -- Best regards, Philippe. Using The Bat! 3.65.03 Current version is 3.65.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Send mails as attachments
Hi all, it is sometimes useful to attach a received mail (as an eml file) to a new mail. Usually I save the received mail on disk (Save As...) then drag and drop the file on the new mail. I then have to delete the file from the disk. Sometimes I also invoke the Alternative Forward menu on the received mail (which creates a new mail with the other one in a file 1.eml), then go into the Outbox to be able to drag and drop the attachment 1.eml to a new mail. I then have to delete the alternative forward mail from the Outbox. Do you know of a better approach to do this? I'd like to be able to drag and drop a mail directly from the message list into the new mail, for instance. -- Best regards, Philippe. Using The Bat! 3.65.03 Current version is 3.65.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re[2]: Modifiers on Reply buttons
Mary Bull wrote: Does anyone know what it means? What Shift or Ctrl are supposed to change to the Reply button anyway? It means that if you highlight a portion of the body text and hold down the shift key, then press the Reply button, only the highlighted (selected) portion of the message you're replying to will be quoted in your Edit Mail Message window. The change is that now the Reply to All button will also work the same way as the Reply button. Highlight a portion of text in a message. Hold down the shift key. Click the Reply to All button. Your reply to all will quote only the selected (highlighted) text in your Edit Mail Message window. Thanks for your reply Mary. I can now use Shift-Reply as you explain, and it's useful. I don't understand what Ctrl-Reply does, even when text is selected. As for Shift-Reply All, it doesn't work as I would expect (works like a normal Reply All), and this is probably where editing of TBUser.DEF is required. Any experience, someone? -- Best regards, Philippe. Using The Bat! 3.63.05 (Beta) Current version is 3.62.14 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Modifiers on Reply buttons
Hello all, I've seen that the last stable version of The Bat has the following release note: [*] Keeping Shift or Ctrl keys change behaviour of Reply to All toolbar button the same way as for Reply button (needs editing or deletion of TBUser.DEF, though) Does anyone know what it means? What Shift or Ctrl are supposed to change to the Reply button anyway? Best regards, Philippe. -- Current version is 3.62.14 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Macro to detach an attachment
Hi all, I know the %ATTACHFILE macro which allows you to add a file to the list of files attached to the message. Is there a way to remove an attachment? I could imagine something like %DETACHFILE(ex.txt)%- or anything similar. Thanks for the help. Regards, Phil. -- Current version is 3.60.7 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
