Since re-installing The Bat! (v. 4.2.44.2) after having had to re-install
Windows 7, when I go to Options|Preferences, the window that comes up is a
small square window (maybe 15-20 lines long) that won't allow me to enlarge it
or change it in any way. It, appears to be frozen.
I want to chan
I'm using TB version 3.95.6.
Whenever I try to forward mail to people in one of my address book groups, the
text of the message I'm trying to forward gets deleted.
My group macro for Forward reads:
%FROM="Mike Greenbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
%TEXT
The first line changes my return address from
Is there a way to edit a message one has received--not for reply but for filing.
For example, I sometimes get email messages from people without subject lines
or with meaningless subject lines. I'd like to file the message with a subject
line that makes sense to me, so I'd like to add a subject
On Sunday, January 25, 2004, Roelof Otten wrote:
> You can access the log file from disk in:
> C:\Program Files\The Bat!\Mail\Accountname\Account.log
> Accountname needs to be substituted with the name of the account.
> On my system I've associated .log files with Notepad, so double
> clicking doe
Is there any way of searching within the log file in TB?
I know I could copy and paste the file to a word processor, but I'd
rather search the log file itself.
I tried F7, but that doesn't work, nor does the Windows search which
is normally invoked by CTRL-F.
I using TB 2.01.3 Business edition o
Is there any way of searching within the log file in TB?
I know I could copy and paste the file to a word processor, but I'd
rather search the log file itself.
I tried F7, but that doesn't work.
Thanks for any help.
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Mike
Current version i
I'm using TB 2.02.3 on a computer running Windows XP.
For some reason, my mouse scroll wheel doesn't work in TB. It's fine
in all my other programs, but not in TB. I'm using a Logitech
MouseMan Wheel connected to a USB port and I'm using Logitech's
mouseware software to configure the mouse (can't
I just solved my own problem.
I didn't have the View Threads by in the View menu set to none.
As soon as I set it to none, everything was fine.
Mike
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JANUS BOOKS, LTD.
Post Office Box 40787
Tucson, AZ 85717
Phone: 520-881-8192; toll-free voice-mail: 800-986-1165
Fax: 815-333-293
Michael S. Greenbaum wrote:
> I just resubscribed today to this list and sent in a question about a
> problem I encountered doing a search. I sued the above subject line.
But I didn't collect a cent! :) Obviously I didn't proofread
either.
Should have, obviously, been: &
I just resubscribed today to this list and sent in a question about a
problem I encountered doing a search. I sued the above subject line.
However, I don't seem to be getting email from the list yet, so if
anyone has replied on this topic, could they cc me at the above
address--just until my list
I did a couple of searches today using the message finder. In each
case, it displayed one fewer than the number of results it said it
found.
For one search, it said along the bottom of the window that it found 2
messages. But it displayed only one. There *were* two messages but I
had to find th
For another group I belong to, I need to be sure that all messages are
sent in plain text, not html.
I thought there was a place I could set this in 1.62, but I can't find
out where it is in 2.03.
Any help would be appreciated.
Mike
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JANUS BOOKS, LTD.
Post Office Box 40787
Tucson, AZ 85717
Jonathan:
Thanks for your help. I did find the download, and this morning, I
got my registration key. Guess I was just too anxious.
On Saturday, November 01, 2003, Jonathan Angliss wrote:
> As a small note, your email appears to be missing a signature
> delimiter, or cut mark. This mark (shown
I just purchased v2 to get in under the October 31 deadline.
I gave all my credit card information and clicked register. I got a sheet
to print out showing my order and telling me I'd get an email.
I got the email almost immediately, thanking me for purchasing The Bat
and repeating my registrati
I realize this forum is for TB questions, but I see so much on here
about PGP, I thought I might ask a few questions about PGP. Since
these questions are not really germane to the list, if you'd prefer to
answer off-list, that would be fine.
I've never used pgp, but the discussion on here has made
On Sunday, October 26, 2003, Anthony G. Atkielski wrote:
> It's remotely possible that someone I know might send me a
> legitimate message with "Vicodin" repeated eight times in the
> subject, or strings of random letters in the subject, even though
> it's not at all probable.
I apologize if this
On Sunday, October 26, 2003, Anthony G. Atkielski wrote:
> It's remotely possible that someone I know might send me a
> legitimate message with "Vicodin" repeated eight times in the
> subject, or strings of random letters in the subject, even though
> it's not at all probable.
I apologize if this
Thanks to all who replied.
I hadn't realized I could access the log other than through the
CTRL-SHIFT-A. By opening it in notepad, I was able to search for
just what I needed.
Thanks again.
Mike
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JANUS BOOKS, LTD.
Post Office Box 40787
Tucson, AZ 85717
Phone: 520-881-8192; toll-free vo
1. Any idea how I can do a search inside the log?
I can invoke the log with CTRL-SHIFT-A and see the activity, but if I want
to do a search to find out which filter processed a particular message
(which I need to do when I can't figure out why something was moved
to, say, my Spam mailbox), there'
On Saturday, December 28, 2002, Allie Martin wrote:
> The 'Paste Formatted' command, i.e., CTRL-Shift-Ins will reflow
> multiple paragraphs at once. If you have a lot of paragraphs to
> reflow, you could select them all, hit CTRL-C or CTRL-X to copy them
> to the clipboard and then hit the Paste F
On Saturday, December 21, 2002, Allie C Martin wrote:
> All your mail for your accounts, quick templates and filters are
> stored in the 'Mail directory' in your installation folder, unless
> you moved the folder somewhere else. The default location is
> C:\Program Files\The Bat!\Mail
I tried thi
On Saturday, December 21, 2002, Allie C Martin wrote:
> :) I'm male.
I apologize for this. Just ignorance on my part.
But as long as I'm writing you, I want to tell you that was a
brilliant explanation of the Synchronise program. It was not only
clear but it explained the *reasoning* behind th
I'm using TB 1.61 Business Edition on a Pentium III laptop PC running
Windows 98 SE with 256 mb RAM.
I need to have a mirror copy of my mailboxes on a backup computer.
My main computer is a laptop and my backup computer is a desktop.
Currently, I use the TB Backup function to create a backup file
Please forgive me if this problem has already been raised.
With version 1.60m, I'm running into a printing problem. If an email
is two pages or more, and I go to the print menu and tell TB to print
Pages From 1 To 1, the first page prints and then a blank sheet is
ejected with no printing on it.
The Help menu started working after I rebooted, so thanks to anyone
who responded to this question.
Mike Greenbaum
Current Ver: 1.60m
FAQ: http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Archives : http://t
I just downloaded version 1.60m and it displayed an Inbox - Known. My
previous version 1.53h didn't have this.
I went to the help menu to find out what this was, and when I click
contents or index, nothing happens?
Is this a problem on my computer or with the program?
Meanwhile, can anyone tell
Thanks to all who replied to my request.
I've found my registration key and registered my copy so that I can
now download the later version.
It's great to have such a fine group of people who offer their help so
readily.
Thanks.
Mike Greenbaum
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My main computer, a laptop, crashed while at a bookfair. I am unable
to reboot even from an emergency floppy.
I have a backup an older computer here at home, and backed up before I
left, so I am not without my data.
However, the older computer has the trial version of TB 1.46. I had
subsequently
I hadn't seen a reply to my previous posting a couple of days ago, so
I'm reposting it here. Would it be possible for respondees to send a
copy of the response to my email address in addition to sending it to
the list? I get the list as a digest and may not always see all
responses.
Mike
I'm try
I'm trying to do a filter to get rid of messages with non-English
characters.
I set up a filter called non-English characters and then tried a rule
which put Á | Ä in the Strings box and filtered for Presence Anywhere
and told it to put the email in my Spam mailbox. That didn't work.
I then tri
I have been receiving an increasing amount of mail or spam (I suspect
the latter) written in non-English characters.
I'm not being xenophobic, but I have no idea what these say, and so
there's not much point in my receiving them.
Is there any setting in The Bat! to allow me to block or filter
me
I recently upgraded from the 2000 Christmas edition to 1.53d. In
the Christmas version, hitting the print icon brought up the print
dialogue box and allowed me to decide which pages I wanted to print.
Now, hitting the print icon simply begins the printing process and all
pages are printed.
I fin
On 9 Dec 2001 at 18:59:00 I wrote:
>> Anyone have any idea what the problem is and what the solution might
>> be?
On 10 Dec 2001 you responded:
>A faint one: AOL needs a special format for URL's, AFAIK. Lots of
>newsletters have a section "For AOL users".
>If he could define another browser (
I apologize if this question has already been dealt with ad nauseum,
but a friend of mine, who uses aol for his browser, can't seem to open
URLs I send him by double-clicking on them.
He's using, I believe, aol version 5, and I'm using The Bat!
version 1.49. We're both on PCs.
Anyone have any id
On Tuesday, June 19, 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Yes, you can. It is easier to go Options>Preferences>Applications and
> then click the four boxes and then click Associate Now.
I don't see an Options>Preferences>Applications in TB. I see Options,
and then Editor Preferences, but that has
I'm using TB Christmas edition and have been since, well, Christmas.
I just got a message this morning when I opened TB telling me that
files with the extension .MSG were not associated with The Bat! and
asking me if I wanted them to be.
I said No, but was this the right answer? Should those fi
I downloaded this AVG program twice, but I cannot find it on my hard drive
anywhere.
The second time, I carefully watched the download complete and noted
the location of the download c:/download.
When I went to look for it, it was not there. I did a search using
the Windows 98 Find function, pu
On Sunday, April 29, 2001, Marck D. Pearlstone wrote:
> You should probably try the AVG virus scanner from www.grisoft.cz. I
> find it very reliable. The authors are themselves TB users.
Do they have a page in English? My Russian is a bit rusty--actually
completely corroded would be more like i
I had been (until this morning) getting the list in digest form and
sometimes didnn't read everything, so I just saw this message about the
worm infecting TB!
I have received a number of messages in what I presume is Russian (at
least they are non-English characters) in the last week or so.
I ju
Recently when I hit a mailto in Netscape, I noticed that TB was no
longer brought up as my mail program. I was getting a Netscape form
instead.
I had installed nsproto.exe shortly after I started using TB, and it
had worked, so I was a bit puzzled.
Then I realized that recently I had upgraded b
Since installing version 1.49 (yesterday), I've been getting the
following message when I open TB:
Files with the extension .eml are not associated with The Bat! Do you
wish to associate those files with The Bat!?
What are EML files? Why am I suddenly being asked about them? What
should I do abo
On Saturday, December 23, 2000, George F. Schoelles wrote:
> But perhaps in a message scenario that kept copy
> status as I described also forced the CC and BCC boxes to open for
> review would work. And or as an added bonus the background color could
> be emphasized.
Either of these would work
On Saturday, December 23, 2000, George F. Schoelles wrote:
> I concur that this would be a cool feature. Or at least that all
> recipients kept their copy status.
All recipients keeping their copy status would not really remove the
problem. There would still be people seeing the message who
sh
On Saturday, December 23, 2000, Mike Harlos wrote:
> I feel that there is a potential for problems with
> the current process, in which a "Reply to all" includes the
> original/main recipient of the email of which you received a Blind
> Copy
I really agree with this one. A friend of mine just ha
On Tuesday, November 28, 2000, Thomas Fernandez wrote:
> Hallo Michael,
> On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 11:57:50 -0700 GMT (29/11/2000, 02:57 +0800 GMT),
> Michael S. Greenbaum wrote:
MSG>> Not quite. I have View>Display>All Messages, and I get it.
> Does it show the co
On Tuesday, November 28, 2000, Gerd Ewald wrote:
>> To me it seems like the message only appears when something else
>> than "Display all messages" is checked under View->Display.
>> In other words when "Only unread" etc is checked, the message
>> appears.
> Hurray, that's it. But all what TB s
I may have an explanation. I seem to get the information about
messages only after I do a Check Mail.
Then if I pass my cursor over a blank area, the information appears.
Mike
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Post Office Box 40787
Tucson, AZ 85717
Phone: 520-881-8192; toll-free voice-mail: 800-986-11
On Tuesday, November 28, 2000, Manfred Ell wrote:
MSG>> When I pass my cursor over the preview window, I get a small box
MSG>> telling me the total number of messages and the total number selected.
> Where do you get that box? I don't get anything.
I don't seem to get it in any consistent manne
When I pass my cursor over the preview window, I get a small box
telling me the total number of messages and the total number selected.
The total number is always correct, but the total number selected is
usually 2--even though I have only one message highlighted.
If I highlight two messages, I'
Some people are sending me email which appears in two forms--as a
regular plain-text email and as a message.shmtl--whatever that is.
I don't want to get messages in the shmtl format. But I still want URLs in the
plain-text messages to show as
hyperlinks.
Will unchecking the HTML auto-view in th
Does anyone else think it would be useful to be able to view and
change properties of address book entries when you access the address
book from the to or cc or bcc etc. lines on the the edit window?
Mike Greenbaum
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JANUS BOOKS, LTD.
Post Office Box 40787
Tucson, AZ 85717
Phone: 520-881-8
Okay, I've put this off when I've seen it before, but finally I've got
to ask.
What are kludges?
Mike Greenbaum
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I've found two minor annoyances when importing addresses into TB from
a tab-delimited file. I import only three fields from my database:
first name, last name, and email address.
First annoyance: TB uses the first record in my file to determine
which fields from my file should be matched with fi
On Sunday, October 29, 2000, Januk Aggarwal wrote:
> I don't think you'll like this suggestion, but about all you can do is
> switch to Internet Explorer
You're right again, of course. I have IE loaded but never use it (I
never use anything of Microsoft's if I don't have to). So I opened it,
got
I just registered my copy of The Bat! on my 29th day.
Someone should tell those who have not registered, unless it's already
been brought up here, that there is a Halloween registration sale in
progress. Prices are cheaper for registration and there is a discount
available for 2.x when it is rel
I found the excellent article by A. Curtis Martin on templates at
http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/templates.html and tried to print
it out.
However, the right side of the document does not print completely
because, apparently, the lines are too long. Every line is cut off
by about 40-50 chara
On Saturday, October 28, 2000, Michael S. Greenbaum wrote:
> Instead of leaving the templates completely blank, use
> the following:
> ---Reply Template---
> On %ODate, %FROMNAME wrote:
> %Quotes
> %Cursor
> ---End Reply template---
I copied and pasted the macro into th
Regarding:
>> It would be much handier if this drop-down list could be tied to the
>> address book or to a list a pre-selected recipients from the address
>> book.
> In your address book(s), make your most frequent correspondents
> "favourites." Then when you're composing a message, you can rig
The drop-down list in the To: box seems only to remember the most
recent To: recipients. If I don't write to someone for a week or
two and have written to many others in the meantime, those whom I'd
like to have in there are deleted.
It would be much handier if this drop-down list could be tied
Thanks very much. Sounds like a fairly easy workaround.
Mike
>> Is there a way I haven't discovered yet in TB to edit an old message
>> and then resend it?
> Go to the message that you want to resend, copy it to your
> outbox, go there and edit the message to your heart's
> content, and send
Often if I want to send a new message to someone I've written to
previously, rather than use the address book, I find an old message to
them and use their address from that.
In Eudora, there was a Send Again function which allowed one to edit
the previous message so that one could change the cont
> All you need to do is selct the offending paragraph and
> press alt-L: it will reformat.
Is there also a way to get a whole email to reformat without losing
the paragraphs?
I tried selecting the whole email text, but that causes all the
paragraphs to run together. I'd like to keep the paragr
MSG>> There is an icon on the left side of my screen which says Dispatch
MSG>> Mail on the Server when I pass my cursor over it.
MSG>> What does this mean?
> The mail dispatch will connect to your mail server and allow you to view
> your mail and manipulate them, without downloading them. You ma
There is an icon on the left side of my screen which says Dispatch
Mail on the Server when I pass my cursor over it.
What does this mean? Does it mean get mail from the server? Delete
mail from the server? Send mail to the server? Something else?
I checked in the Help file but there is no item
Ming-Li:
Your suggestion was absolutely on the mark. Eudora does make itself
the default mailer--even if one doesn't check for mail.
I closed TB and reopened it with no message about the default email
program.
I then closed TB, opened Eudora--did nothing in it, closed it again,
and reopened TB
> On Friday, October 13, 2000, 8:15:00 AM, Michael wrote:
>> Each morning when I boot up and begin TB, I get a message telling
>> me that TB is not my default email server and asking me if I want
>> to make it so. I dutifully click yes, but each time I restart TB,
>> the message is there.
> Do
Each morning when I boot up and begin TB, I get a message telling me
that TB is not my default email server and asking me if I want to make
it so. I dutifully click yes, but each time I restart TB, the message
is there.
I know I can get the message to disappear by clicking the little box
saying
MSG>> I had problems downloading the nsproto.exe file but found one
MSG>> eventually at a different site (don't remember where).
> Please can you tell me what problems you had?
I couldn't get to the site the night that I needed it. Netscape kept
trying and trying, and then I'd get an error mess
This is my second request on this one. Perhaps no one has an answer
for it.
I've set TB to be my default mailer in Netscape 4.75 and that works
fine.
On the File menu in Netscape, there appears Send Page. It is a means
of sending the URL of a page one is currently viewing to someone else
in an
Is there a way to change the order of TO and From on a new message?
I would prefer to see the person to whom I am sending the message come
first and my information come second?
Mike Greenbaum
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JANUS BOOKS, LTD.
Post Office Box 40787
Tucson, AZ 85717
Phone: 520-881-8192; toll-free voice-m
I'm a new user also, and I just had the same problem. There are
instructions at http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/howdoi.html
I had problems downloading the nsproto.exe file but found one
eventually at a different site (don't remember where).
Frankly, items steps 3 to 7 make no sense until you
I have been able to configure Netscape 4.75 to use TB for a mailto
when I encounter one on a web page or in an email.
Is there also a way for Netscape to use TB when I use the Send Page
command from the File menu in Netscape? As of now, it still brings up
a Netscape mail form with the URL in the
Thanks, again, for the help.
I was able to find the Groups feature and use it with no problem so
far.
Regarding:
> This is not a registry or any other problem, but the TRCA lists are
> *vital* and fundamental to the S/MIME support in TB. "CA" means
> Certification Authority and these addresses
I've been using TB only for three days now, so I have lots of
questions. I hope I'm not getting to be too much of a nuisance.
Two questions for now regarding the Address Book:
One:
When I opened the address book the first time, it had a lot of address
books of things I had no use for, so I dele
> It's because Michael's .TXT file association does not have double
> quotes around the parameter, i.e. "%1". Without these the file name is
> split up by any embedded spaces so any attempt to open "C:\The
> Bat!\ReadMe.txt" from explorer will open "C:\The" instead. This can be
> corrected in Exlp
> I forgot to mention in my other message, remember, back up your
> registry before making any changes.
I've never tried to edit the Registry and don't feel comfortable
trying to do it--even backed up.
I tried to delete the whole program through the Windows Add/Remove
Programs which is what TB r
> I would suggest this: Check each of the folders' properties and
> manually change the directories where TB should look for messages for
> these folders. Only when all references to "The Bat!" in TB's
> configuration (all account information and possibly some registry
> entries) have been changed
> Januk has already replied to your question. However, I find it funny
> that WordPad - a product made by the same company that made the OS
> which recognises such directory names - would say that; how did you
> invoke/open Wordpad and the readme.txt? I have never had a problem
> with my "C:\Progr
When I originally installed TB, I installed it to C:\THE BAT! However,
when I tried to open the readme.txt file, WordPad could not open it
saying that it couldn't find the directory C:\THE
I figured that the problem was the space between THE and BAT!, so I
renamed the file TheBat! I was then abl
I never knew that. Thanks.
Mike
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
> Messages with today's date show only the time. When midnight has
> passed then the date shows.
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I've just noticed that for all messages I send, the creation date does
not appear in the preview window at the top right. All messages I receive have the
creation date showing, but all that I send do not.
The creation date does show on the header of the message itself in the lower window,
if I s
I installed the filter on my less-used email address, and it works
fine. Now I have to check only one box for all my email. The Inbox,
Outbox, Sent, and Trash folders in the account for the less-used
address are basically not used and everything gets put into folders in
the major account.
Makes
I have just downloaded The Bat and am setting it up for the first
time.
I have two different email addresses I use. I'd like to be able to
choose between them in the From window, but the only way I can find to
do this is by setting up two accounts for them. This means two
inboxes which seems ki
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