Re: message filtering

2011-11-24 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Chris, On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:37:44 + GMT (24/Nov/11, 18:37 PM +0700 GMT), Chris Wilson wrote: CW> I have had a crash and my BAT backup on this PC doesn't contain some recently CW> created filters. I have a current backup on another PC, which file CW> holds the filters, and can I just

Re: message filtering

2011-11-24 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Gunivortus, On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:02:19 +0100 GMT (22/Nov/11, 21:02 PM +0700 GMT), Gunivortus Goos wrote: >> Just a question: Are you using POP or IMAP? GG> POP3. Never used IMAP, nor do I have any plans to do that. GG> After creating the filters new, they're working... knocking on wood.

Re: IMAP and features

2011-11-24 Thread Alto Speckhardt
Hi Vilius, > I agree. But the root cause of this is a poor handling of IMAP on > The Bat! side. My point was: why waste time introducing feature you > are suggesting instead of fixing current bugs which should solve this problem? Right. No more to be said. :-) -- Mit freundlichem Gruß Alto S

RE: IMAP and features

2011-11-24 Thread Vilius Šumskas
> > Again, if you are viewing your email on the computer which doesn't > > belong to you, you cannot guarantee it isn't read in any case. Even > > if your email is encoded, some rogue program can "grab" or "record" > > every window you open. Including the window content. > > Of course. > > The po

Re: IMAP and features

2011-11-24 Thread Alto Speckhardt
Hi Vilius, > Again, if you are viewing your email on the computer which doesn't > belong to you, you cannot guarantee it isn't read in any case. Even > if your email is encoded, some rogue program can "grab" or "record" > every window you open. Including the window content. Of course. The point

RE: IMAP and features

2011-11-24 Thread Vilius Šumskas
> >> But when I close the browser, the cache is (if so configured) cleared. On > >> the next start, the cache is completely blank. > > As others pointed out. This doesn't make sence for email much. > > I think it indeed may: > > - On a computer that doesn't belong to me, and which is not under my

Re: IMAP and features

2011-11-24 Thread Alto Speckhardt
Hello Simon, > 1.- The network traffic will increase tremendously. Every time you > enter a folder it will have to go and get the headers to be able to > show the list of mails. This will also make it slow. True, but it depends on the usage: I mostly have the program open to watch for new inc

Re: IMAP and features

2011-11-24 Thread Alto Speckhardt
Hi Vilius, >> But when I close the browser, the cache is (if so configured) cleared. On >> the next start, the cache is completely blank. > As others pointed out. This doesn't make sence for email much. I think it indeed may: - On a computer that doesn't belong to me, and which is not under my

RE: IMAP and features

2011-11-24 Thread Vilius Šumskas
> Hi Vilius, > > > >> 3.) A feature question: Is it possible to disable the IMAP cache > >> completly? The goal would be a small-footprint client [...] > > This is not possible. Think of it as a WWW browser. You cannot > > display content on screen if it is not on local disk. > > But when I clos

RE: IMAP and features

2011-11-24 Thread Vilius Šumskas
> Hi Vilius, > > >> 3.) A feature question: Is it possible to disable the IMAP cache > > This is not possible. Think of it as a WWW browser. You cannot > > display content on screen if it is not on local disk. > > I disagree. Of course you could just load the list of mails from the > mail server

Re[2]: IMAP and features

2011-11-24 Thread Simon Martin
Hi Alto, But when I close the browser, the cache is (if so configured) cleared. On the next start, the cache is completely blank. I can see real usability problems with this: 1.- The network traffic will increase tremendously. Every time you enter a folder it will have to go and get the head

Re: IMAP and features

2011-11-24 Thread Alto Speckhardt
Hi Vilius, >> 3.) A feature question: Is it possible to disable the IMAP cache >> completly? The goal would be a small-footprint client [...] > This is not possible. Think of it as a WWW browser. You cannot > display content on screen if it is not on local disk. But when I close the browser, the

Re: message filtering

2011-11-24 Thread Chris Wilson
Good day beta list members, Tuesday, November 22, 2011, 2:02:19 PM, you wrote: > Hi Thomas, GG>>> The sorting office filtering does not work properly; GG>>> my old filters from v4 work fine, all new ones I made in v5 GG>>> don't work. Nevertheless, I created them the same as the GG>>> old ones..

RE: IMAP and features

2011-11-24 Thread Vilius Šumskas
> 3.) A feature question: Is it possible to disable the IMAP cache > completly? The goal would be a small-footprint client that does not > save anything locally (except configuration, of course), no "mail" > directory at all. This is not possible. Think of it as a WWW browser. You cannot display c

IMAP and features

2011-11-24 Thread Alto Speckhardt
Hi, how is the IMAP developement coming along? I've been waiting anxiously for a new version, because the latest releases still contain significant problems for me: 1.) About 20 minutes after start of TheBat status messages begin to appear "connection unexpectedly closed" (or similar.) This is