Vili, > The question in my profession is always this: what is the next big > thing? And do that. What is the next big thing for an email client? If > I am hearing right, a reliable, correct IMAP support with the > filtering, etc. of The Bat! would be a big hit. Why? Nu such thing > exists yet.
Right, it does not exist. One reason is that it is devilishly hard to do. A number of clients have tried. There was some indication in the Mulberry support list a while back that the people who are responsible for the Imap specification were thinking of revising the standard to make it simpler because so many client and server authors have had so much trouble getting it right. That idea is likely to not get past the daydream stage, says Cyrus Daboo. But I maintain that The Bat Imap is much much better than it was just a few years ago. All that remains of the old quirkiness for me is the occasional Ctrl-c to refresh folder contents. I am a long time intensive Imap user, and I make significant technical demands of my Imap client, but I don't think it is true that there is a herd of languishing Imap users out there dying for a good imap client. A cluster maybe. Far and away, most users use POP, and until ISP email server change, that will be the way it is. Imap remains the domain of institutional email, and that is still the smaller percentage. Actually, the new thing on the email horizon is Webmail, I fear. Young people seem to universally prefer it. Nothing to learn, nothing to fix. It just works, and when it doesn't, somebody else must fix it. Sad to say. > So, if Ritlabs would spend time to do this, that would be > unique. Yeah, postponing is unique I guess, but "who gives a sh.t." > Quote from actual users. They dont use it. -- Gleason Using The Bat 4.1.14.2 (RC2) on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 4.1.14.2 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
