Vanishing paperclip

2006-07-29 Thread Alastair Scott
to enter your bank details into a phishing site in Mongolia, and containing one attached .GIF, are a good test :) Alastair -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] pgphCmfPPYzd7.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: The Bat! 3.81.06 Beta is now available

2006-07-11 Thread Alastair Scott
browser ... on pressing Yes in the TB! popup, nothing happens. Alastair -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp3WTvETTaUb.pgp Description: PGP signature Current beta is 3.81.06 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http

Re: 1.54 Beta/46: video card

2002-03-07 Thread Alastair Scott
On 07 March 2002 at 19:13 Joseph wrote: ATI Rage Pro here, under Win98. No problems. These are all XP problems, as you'll see from the screen shots (post following). Alastair -- _ Archives : http://tbbeta.thebat.dutaint.com

Re: 1.54 Beta/46

2002-03-07 Thread Alastair Scott
, with awkward 'line' between tab and tab face) and 3 (spin buttons black on beige rather than blue rounded XP style). http://www.thebrixton.btinternet.co.uk/xp_beta46_directories.png Shows problem 6 (Directory and Home Directory fields beige background rather than white). Alastair -- Alastair Scott

Re: Bugtrack difficulty

2002-02-28 Thread Alastair Scott
On 28 February 2002 at 09:08 Dierk wrote: Hello TBBETA Members! I may be a bit thick - I definitely am -, but how to I give feedback when asked for it to the bugtrack system? I tried by adding a note and sending a message to RITLabs, but don't think this can be right ... I've

Re: Icons with gray background

2002-02-28 Thread Alastair Scott
On 28 February 2002 at 07:38 Lars wrote: Hi Giamma, On Wednesday, February 27, 2002 at 22:14:41 [GMT +0100], you wrote: G perfect: ATI RAGE XL AGP 2X Then you should probably try to get newer drivers for your graphics card. That should correct the icon issue. Ah, I had this problem (same

Re: Quo vadis, Bat?

2002-02-23 Thread Alastair Scott
On 23 February 2002 at 17:55 Dave wrote: Hi Stefano, Saturday, February 23, 2002, 5:34:16 PM, you wrote: Stefano Z. Beautiful icons, skins etc, only bloat system ! Ok, then let's keep TB! as a minority piece of software that has no real relevance to mass market needs. Bloating is a

Re: Quo vadis, Bat?

2002-02-23 Thread Alastair Scott
On 23 February 2002 at 18:10 L wrote: Hello Nick, den 23 februari 2002, 19:04, you wrote: NA Absolute Nonsense! TB is in 'dire' need of a facelift. How does a new NA set of icons equate to bloat? How about customisable Toolbars? Would you NA consider that bloat... or added functionality?

Empty Folder reluctant to be enabled

2002-02-12 Thread Alastair Scott
to only happen the first time I press the right mouse button after read messages have been sent to an empty Trash). Alastair -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) Using Windows 95 and The Bat! 1.54 Beta/37 This email has

Ctrl-Alt-left|right and folder pane focus

2002-02-10 Thread Alastair Scott
I note that, if the folder list's focus is on the _account_ with unread messages (ie the '@' line), Ctrl-Alt-right doesn't move to the first unread message. However, if it's on the Inbox, or any other folder, it does. Bug or feature? Alastair -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) Using

Re: Keyboard Shortcut [space]

2002-02-05 Thread Alastair Scott
On 05 February 2002 at 23:31 Dwight wrote: On Tuesday, February 5, 2002, 5:26:54 PM, John Seymour wrote: Another thing that I just noticed is that when you maximize a message you have buttons for previous/next message or delete and move up/delete and move down. Both of these seem to work in

Re: www.betanews.com

2002-02-01 Thread Alastair Scott
On 01 February 2002 at 19:38 Sergey wrote: Hello All :-) I just read some rewiews on www.betanews.com. I think, it is good to make *internal* betas as fast as it now :-). But it is bad to publish it on such kind of sites. Because changes are small and people outside this mailinglist did

First beta 33 bug (unexpected Options | Preferences warning)

2002-01-30 Thread Alastair Scott
Hello The Bat! developers, I'm using The Bat! Version 1.54 Beta/33 Serial Number 1E7B0E3E under Windows 95 4.0 Build 67306684 B and would like to report a bug The bug description: Unexpected 'OK to set associations ...' warning dialog. Steps to reproduce the bug: Select any (or

Re: List Down or Slow Day?

2002-01-30 Thread Alastair Scott
On 30 January 2002 at 8:06 am Dierk wrote: Hello Marck! On Wednesday, January 30, 2002 at 6:44:24 AM you wrote: The list's ISP's routing got throttled yesterday and traffic was slowed to a standstill. It was righted about 2 hours ago. So, the answer is down-ish. Nonetheless, the traffic

Re: BAV plug-ins

2002-01-25 Thread Alastair Scott
of implementing it to any extent. Alastair -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) Using Windows XP and The Bat! 1.54 Beta/31 -- _ Archives : http://tbbeta.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto

Re: Msg source View doesn't Print

2002-01-21 Thread Alastair Scott
something in bt.ritlabs.com :/ Alastair -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) Using Windows 95 and The Bat! 1.54 Beta/30 This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more

Re: Msg source View doesn't Print

2002-01-21 Thread Alastair Scott
On 21 January 2002 at 9:46 am Alain wrote: Bug still here in 1.54 ßeta 30, I try to force the default font in the print setup dialog but it generate a random access violation ;( and, at least, it didn't change any thing - BW printing only. I've had the access violation on one machine but not

Re:Can not backup.

2002-01-17 Thread Alastair Scott
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 10:49:15 +, Sergey Uvarov wrote: Where can I see BugTraq? https://bt.ritlabs.com/ ... set up your username and password and start raising or confirming (or not confirming) them. There are plenty out there waiting to be found ouch! Alastair PS I'm using PocoMail 2.5

Re: National characters - nearly there

2002-01-17 Thread Alastair Scott
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 10:43:12 +0100, Alinda Helleman wrote: If you want to set the font for the message list, go to: Message | Colour Group | Edit Colour Groups | Font Yeah, it is rather hidden and suggests it is associated with the various colours which it isn't, but it works fine for me to

Re: Possible to Disable Security question ?

2002-01-15 Thread Alastair Scott
On 15 January 2002 at 8:17 am Thomas wrote: I agree to every word of this paragraph, including the last two. If you ask me, they should fix the known bugs (it's a very long list by now), release 1.54, then overhaul the interface, release it as next version or as 1.54a, and then start

SOT: TB! memory leaks (?) and pinning them down

2002-01-15 Thread Alastair Scott
Since I installed beta 28 on my Win95 machine its performance has been deplorable; I'm beginning to think there's something wrong akin to the notorious Win98SE memory problems which other people have mentioned. Given that there seem to be literally hundreds of utilities for enumerating

Re: SOT: TB! memory leaks (?) and pinning them down

2002-01-15 Thread Alastair Scott
On 15 January 2002 at 2:37 pm Silviu wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 15 Jan 2002 at 4:37:01 pm , Alastair Scott wrote the following on the SOT: TB! memory leaks (?) and pinning them down thread: AS Since I installed beta 28 on my Win95 machine its performance has been

Re: Mail stuck in Outbox

2002-01-14 Thread Alastair Scott
On 14 January 2002 at 04:51 Thomas wrote: AS This is a tricky one to reproduce (for obvious reasons given in step AS 1) ... but can anyone confirm it? Yes. I reported it in the Connection Center bugs mail about a week or two ago. Actually, it has been present ever since the ConCen made its

Re: SOT: Glyphs

2002-01-14 Thread Alastair Scott
On 14 January 2002 at 06:17 Andreas wrote: Hi The Bat! users, sorry for posting this here, but I'm not subscribed to TBUDL nor TBTECH. Does anybody have a non-standard glyphs.bmp which he could share with other users? I'd like to offer this in my german TBgroup for downloading. We

Re: Possible to Disable Security question ?

2002-01-14 Thread Alastair Scott
On 14 January 2002 at 17:24 Anton wrote: In a good program, especially such as a mail client, every notorious question (simply put - every) should be carrying don't ask this again ckeckbox. Look at OE, for example, they realize that, and they are Microsoft! By the way, OE interface looks

Re: 1.54 Beta/28

2002-01-13 Thread Alastair Scott
On 12 January 2002 at 22:56 Stefan wrote: [-] Changing hierarchy position of folders without message base files created was causing Cannot rename... errors. Things _do_ get fixed in the end - that was a bad one of mine from about 13 betas ago when I was setting up 4 accounts ;) The Web

Bug in The Bat!'s bug tracker ;)

2002-01-13 Thread Alastair Scott
I note that, after I file a bug report, I am sent the confirmation email message twice ... Alastair -- _ Archives : http://tbbeta.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wish List

Mail stuck in Outbox

2002-01-13 Thread Alastair Scott
This is a tricky one to reproduce (for obvious reasons given in step 1) ... but can anyone confirm it? 1. Send email (Ctrl-Enter), server isn't responding, press Abort, message remains in Outbox as expected. 2. Try Send Mail From All (Alt-Shift-F2); message in Outbox _isn't_ sent and remains

Re: Mail stuck in Outbox

2002-01-13 Thread Alastair Scott
On 13 January 2002 at 19:18 Patrick wrote: Are you sure, that the message is not marked as draft? Not by me - it wasn't saved as draft (Alt-F2) or queued in the Outbox (Shift-F2), although it's not clear what TB! does in the situation described (the access violation is suspicious). The

Re: 8859-15 / statement in German newsgroup

2002-01-13 Thread Alastair Scott
On 13 January 2002 at 19:13 Günther wrote: Hei, Carsten Thönges wrote: BTW I hope the developers follow this thread, or does anyone want to write a bug report... wrote a short one, pointing to this thread (#221). I've written another one (222) about what is probably a closely related

Re: Dead button

2002-01-13 Thread Alastair Scott
On 13 January 2002 at 18:40 Maxim wrote: Hello Alastair! AS It seems that Account | Properties | General option | (Edit personal AS vCard | Certificates tab) (or Edit certificates) | Request ... AS doesn't do anything. (What should it do?) You should first click Generate button to generate

Changing accounts on response ignores S/MIME settings

2002-01-08 Thread Alastair Scott
account B's S/MIME settings are ignored or account A's are used instead are the message is not signed. (It would be worth checking this with OpenPGP). Steps to reproduce the bug: As described. The response should be S/MIME signed. Regards, Alastair Scott [Note - sent previously to [EMAIL

Re: TLS (was: beta/24)

2002-01-05 Thread Alastair Scott
On 5 January 2002 at 8:20 am Thomas wrote: Thanks, I found them. Does anybody know whether either myrealbox or GMX use this? If so, how do I go about testing it? I think it's unlikely that mainstream ISPs offer it. There are certainly none in the UK that I'm aware of; I have it because I have

Oddity involving Known filter

2001-12-31 Thread Alastair Scott
Hello The Bat! developers, I'm using The Bat! Version 1.54 Beta/21 Serial Number 1E7B0E3E under Windows NT 5.1 Build 2600 and would like to report a bug The bug description: Known filter can temporarily take the same name as a new filter. Steps to reproduce the bug: 1. Open the

SOT: beta testing

2001-12-19 Thread Alastair Scott
A very interesting article on beta testing of commercial software: http://www.betanews.com/article.php3?sid=1007600207 Lots and lots of good points there; the interviewee is as keen as I am on tools which make everything visible to everyone. (As you can probably guess I'm not impressed with

Dubious outcome of drag-and-drop

2001-12-17 Thread Alastair Scott
This may not be a bug, rather a feature :) When I drag-and-drop a .MSG file (previously saved TB! message from another copy of the client) into the folder tree a new message is created with the .MSG file as an attachment (equivalent to F5 then Alt-Page Up and find the file). This is, in my

Re[5]: beta/16

2001-12-17 Thread Alastair Scott
On 16 December 2001 at 1:09 pm Linke wrote: PAT Yes, me too. This makes (any of the last three versions of) 1.54 PAT useless for me... Me three! Quite anoying. Anybody can tell me wether I can securely switch back to a working version (beta 10 and below I guess?). Because of the bad

Slovenian (once again)

2001-12-12 Thread Alastair Scott
I think this has been passed around fruitlessly once before, so there's no harm having another shot at the issue ;) In the last email I got the header looks as per the attached, and the To: line of the message source looks like: To: =?Windows-1250?B?SmVybmVqIFNpbW9u6Gno?= [EMAIL PROTECTED]

A minor inconsistency

2001-12-12 Thread Alastair Scott
I note that, in the Dispatcher, the Time field doesn't follow the (carefully customisable) format of the Received and Created fields in the list of messages and the Find window; rather, it has a private format of its own (08:02, 17:54). Alastair

Re[2]: Slovenian (once again)

2001-12-12 Thread Alastair Scott
Jernej wrote: Hello Alastair, 12. december 2001, 10:31:38, you wrote: AS That anything comprehensible at all can be derived from this is a AS miracle - so what's stopping the "c-hacek" from being right too? [And AS where did the backslashes and quotes come from?] I think that it's the

Re: The Bat! - bug report - Refusal to quit

2001-12-03 Thread Alastair Scott
On 3 December 2001 at 9:39 am Graham wrote: Hello The Bat! developers, I'm using The Bat! Version 1.54 Beta/14 Serial Number F0060E1D under Windows NT 4.0 Build 1381 Service Pack 6 and would like to report a bug The bug description: When using IMAP, if TB! receives any

email appears to be going to wrong address

2001-12-03 Thread Alastair Scott
Hello The Bat! developers, I'm using The Bat! Version 1.54 Beta/14 Serial Number 1E7B0E3E under Windows NT 5.1 Build 2600 and would like to report a bug The bug description: User interface not updating when it should means email appears to be going to wrong address Steps to

Undesirable 'send to back' no.2

2001-12-03 Thread Alastair Scott
Hello The Bat! developers, I'm using The Bat! Version 1.54 Beta/14 Serial Number 1E7B0E3E under Windows NT 5.1 Build 2600 and would like to report a bug The bug description: Preferences window inappropriately sent to back. Steps to reproduce the bug: Do Options | Preferences

High resource usage by Connection Centre

2001-12-01 Thread Alastair Scott
When I'm typing in an application window other than TB!, nothing is displayed when the Connection Centre is visible although I keep typing; when the CC closes the text is displayed in a rush. I've never seen this (with XP Professional) before beta 14. I'll try to quantify the percentage CPU

Re: Double Folders?

2001-11-30 Thread Alastair Scott
Kevin wrote: Hi All Beta Testers, Currently having a problem with 1.54/13a, After installing the Program, i opened it up to find my Account (Which is protected by a Password) and Also the same folders outside my account, i decided to delete my Mail folder, and do a Fresh

Re[2]: Odd...

2001-11-29 Thread Alastair Scott
On 29 November 2001 at 5:06 pm Nick wrote: I was experiencing the same problem. That along with the funky wheel mouse implementation and the lack of task tray icon was enough to send me packing back a few betas. Me too ... on Windows 95 (for the first time ever after two major versions and a

Re: OT: Pronunciation of 'polish' (was: BUG: 1.54b12: Smart pad not working properly...)

2001-11-29 Thread Alastair Scott
On 29 November 2001 at 6:20 pm Markus wrote: Hi, On Thursday, November 29, 2001, 6:41:49 PM, Peter Palmreuther wrote: Den verstehe ich nicht ... bin ich jetzt blöd oder ist der so anspruchsvoll??? [Expressing that he doesn't get Dierk's joke.] It's about the pronunciation of the word

OT: serial beta-testers :)

2001-11-16 Thread Alastair Scott
I just subscribed to opera.beta on news.opera.com to put forwards comments on Opera 6 beta 1 and who did I see? A fair number of familiar names ... people from this mailing list! [For my fellow serial beta-testers, another package worth testing is StarOffice 6.0 beta at

Flawed wizard

2001-11-09 Thread Alastair Scott
(This is my recollection from the last time I did it; I'm about to do it again and just remembered the problem ...). The wizard which appears as part of a clean copy (install from installation file, first run) of TB! has a flaw if you want to restore an account from a backup file (*.TBK). You

Not finding duplicates

2001-10-11 Thread Alastair Scott
A number of mailing lists I subscribe to generate large numbers of duplicate posts which TB! doesn't pick up. On examining the non-duplicate duplicates, it seems that the problem is related to Yahoo! (and others) appending footers to the email thus: Yahoo! Groups

Re[2]: Big trouble with default printing font

2001-10-04 Thread Alastair Scott
On 4 October 2001 at 3:40 pm Dierk wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Alastair! On Thursday, October 04, 2001 at 1:52:26 PM you wrote: That system instability suggests there's something pretty nasty somewhere ... I tried to re-enact what you did, but couldn't.

Windows XP appearance issues

2001-09-21 Thread Alastair Scott
Running TB 1.54b9 on XP demonstrates one obvious glitch and a lot of appearance problems which are architectural (requiring a lot of work, and probably the migration from Delphi 2 to 6 mentioned elsewhere). The obvious glitch is the 'menu navigator' button which, with the default XP UI skin,

Re: Windows XP appearance issues

2001-09-21 Thread Alastair Scott
Thomas wrote: On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 09:02:09 +0100 GMT (21/09/2001, 16:02 +0800 GMT), Alastair Scott wrote: AS which, with the default XP UI skin, appears distorted as the AS default XP buttons are 4 times the area of previous Microsoft OS AS buttons; I can provide a picture if needed

Re[2]: Windows XP appearance issues

2001-09-21 Thread Alastair Scott
On 21 September 2001 at 6:11 pm Screwyluie wrote: AS The obvious glitch is the 'menu navigator' button which, with the AS default XP UI skin, appears distorted as the default XP buttons are 4 AS times the area of previous Microsoft OS buttons; I can provide a picture AS if needed. (Other

Re[2]: Windows XP appearance issues

2001-09-21 Thread Alastair Scott
On 21 September 2001 at 8:30 pm Allie wrote: AS http://www.btinternet.com/~thebrixton/tbxp.png This link seems to be broken. Anyone else been able to load it? It is quite likely to be the ISP (BTopenworld) that is broken ;) Try: http://www.unmetered.org.uk/test/tbxp.png (Both files load OK