Hello Tom,
Tuesday, January 18, 2000, 7:41:32 PM, you wrote:
TP Ok, so I've been shopping for a new email client, and The Bat!
TP seems to be working relatively well.
Complicated commands not well identified, rough and inconvenient
access to many features, filtering complicated by being folder based -
but it's stable, has an outstanding editor, best spell check
implementation I've seen, it's multilingual, does many things at a
time, the developers are responsive, there's a really good user-group,
and it does "seem to be working relatively well", with many
improvements in the wings. Worth the hassle of learning, in my
opinion.
TP Without going into evangelism, can anyone give me any pros/cons of
TP the "competition" as compared to The Bat!?
TP I've downloaded Calypso but have yet to install it.
Calypso has a few neat tricks that I'd like to see on TB (multiple
signatures and active account more accessible, an accounts column),
but incredibly bad tech support, no functional users group, a really
poor monolingual spell check dictionary, and when it blew up after a
minor upgrade (with 50 mb of my encrypted mail), no remedy was offered
than my changing whole system. And it does one thing at a time. Pretty
but shallow.
TP Haven't used Eudora in years. Don't know about anything else...
TP So, what's up, what features do each have that the other(s) don't?
Not 3 pane (I was coming from Netscape), poor tech support,
Anticipates many things I want to do incorrectly, freezes often or
won't open - and that is also true for me with Pegasus.
TP In other words, why is The Bat! a better choice than either of these
TP two?
See the above. It may more be a matter of personal choice, the work
habits of the user, what he's used to, or a matter of what works on
your system, and not necessarily a matter of which is the better
choice. Different strokes for different folks.
TP If you don't think that this is appropriate to the list, please
TP respond directly to my email box. You know how to find it. ;)
I did start this as private mail, but it's a valid question for TBUDL:
Why do you all use The Bat? (Although Alexander V. Kiselev doesn't - check his
headers - he's using Pegasus Mail for Win32 v3.12b and his reasons
have been stated clearly on TBUDL and should be found in this months
archives w/ the subject heading: Pegasus vs. The Bat!).
Here are some other email programs some people like:
Becky - Japanese (I downloaded it but haven't tried it - because I'm
satisfied with TB! in the sense that it's already dependable and
useful now and steadily improving) http://www.rimarts.co.jp/becky.htm
Lingomail - Israeli:
http://www.lingomail.com/
Foxmail (free) - Chinese:
http://hotfiles.zdnet.com/cgi-bin/texis/swlib/hotfiles/info.html?fcode=000X12b=
http://www.softwareblast.com/entries/0f89.sml
Don't remember which of the above urls is best.
SouthSoft, Inc. - PMMail PMINews
http://www.southsoft.com/
Many like this, I haven't tried it.
Hope that helps.
Douglas
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