Lüko, > Hello everybody,
> on Freitag, 19. Juli 2019 at 19:54 Gleason <sombr...@mm.st> wrote > re ...working on version 9 — will essential changes be implemented? > (was: The Bat! v8.8.9 MSI (3rd attempt)) > >> In this case, the important thing is that the system works, > Fact is, that the quoting in TheBat! is broken, is utter nonsense and does > not work at all. > > When I get a message which quotes something I had written before, > TheBat! does not render the quote as a quote. And I have no means to > tell for sure what is a quote and what is new text in a message, and > no link to the message being quoted. This, I think, is our misunderstanding. What you say is true when you are corresponding with somebody who uses Thunderbird. The fault is with Thunderbird, not The Bat. Thunderbird converts quoting to it's system when replying to you. And so all structure is lost. No other client does this. That means Thunderbird and Mozilla clones like Post Box. MS Outlook also does not trash The Bat's quoting. And it does trash Thunderbird's quoting. So, for instance, when I use Post Box to reply to MS Outlook, the reply I get back from Outlook has trashed quoting. Mozilla clones are not usable. > Normally quotes would be > identified by enclosing them with a BLOCKQUOTE or Q tag. > > When I use TheBat!'s broken quoting, it get's completely gobbled up until > recognition. > > You speak about a "list of major players" meaning apparently email clients. > > But you mention only one of the "major players", namely > Thunderbird. More often used than Thunderbird is MS Outlook, MS > Outlook Express (or Live, as they call it now), and in a similar > range Apple Mail, which has for Mac users the same importance as > Outlook and Outlook Express for Windows users. Those are not high performance email clients. They are clients for general users. Since general users have moved away from old style email, I can't imagine that those clients get a lot of users any more. > BTW, I tried to get a statistic of the number of the various eMail > clients as shown by the X-MAILER header, but the search by TheBat! > does not allow to select a given header and only search the content > of that header field. And I could not export my full message store > to MBOX format — nothing happens, unless I select each single folder > at one time, but hat is too tedious to do. And the file format of > the TBB and TBN files is not known to me. > > Cheers, > Lüko Willms > Frankfurt am Main > Germany > using: TheBat! 8.8.2.8 (BETA) > OS: Windows 7 (NT 6.1 Build 7601 - Service Pack 1) > CPU: AMD amd athlon(tm) 64 x2 dual core processor 4200+ > MEM: 4097 MB -- Gleason ________________________________________________________ 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
