Re: The sigdash
Hello Ian, On Sat, 13 Aug 2022 14:58:38 +1000 GMT (13/08/2022, 11:58 +0700 GMT), Ian A. White wrote: > When replying with quoting it is not an issue as in this reply, as there can > only be a sigdash on the line. Anything else and it is just a normal line of > text. > My problem is that I have some message threads for customers and that means > there are 20 signatures with high def graphics that have been quoted. This > then limits quoting as the message is now too big and gets rejected. This > results in a fresh thread being started, and that causes other issues. What I do in this case is delete the attachments. > I do not know if there is a solution. My client uses Outlook and that causes > a lot of problems because it does not necessarily show the threading. Outlook > also does not recognise a sigdash. At one point I tried using Outlook, but it > resulted in so many issues so went back to The Bat! for them. When Microsoft > were contacted, it was a case of "Next question". As far as they were > concerned they could do whatever they wanted. They even include the actual > attachments with each reply, so a job with 7 revisions would see a huge > number of inclusions as the first message has the file, the next reply has > the first included plus the rev 1, the next has all these included plus rev > 2, and so on. Ranting against Outllok in this group is praying to the choire! :-) -- Cheers, Thomas. Message reply created with The Bat! Version 10.1.0.2 (64-bit) under Windows 10.0 Build 19043 Current version is 9.1.18 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: The sigdash
Hello Ian, On Fri, 5 Aug 2022 12:13:25 +1000 GMT (05/08/2022, 09:13 +0700 GMT), Ian A. White wrote: > G'day, > This is something that has become annoying. > This message is plain text so if anyone replies, the sigdash would be > honoured and everything after it would be ignored. > If however, this was an HTML message, then The Bat! does not seem to handle > it too well as the entire message being replied to is considered a block and > the sigdash is considered part of the block. > In business, HTML is just about standard for a whole lot of reasons ranging > from the email client being used through to tracking whether the message has > been read, and how many times it has been read. > So, is there any way that The Bat! can be used to read the sigdash in a HTML > formatted email? Make it optional, please. In our business, we always need the full email thread in the reply. If someone uses a sigdash and this cuts off everything below it, we have to go search for what he wrote a month ago. -- Cheers, Thomas. Message reply created with The Bat! Version 9.5.1 (64-bit) under Windows 10.0 Build 19043 Current version is 9.1.18 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
