On Saturday, May 30, 2009, 7:39:05 AM, Gleason Pace wrote: > 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.
While I agree that it is better than it once was, I certainly would not classify its major failings as 'quirkiness.' The biggest problem remains message counts. In Vista, the only way to get a current count is to exit and restart. I find myself doing that often. I'm not sure whether it is TBs fault that the server sometimes closes the connection and I have to exit and restart to reconnect, but that happens on xp often. I don't trust TB! to create new folders, but I haven't tried it lately. When we start working on IMAP, I'll get some accounts I can safely experiment on but I screwed up my real account often enough that way in the past I won't risk it there. While TB! continues to suit me better than other apps, partly at least out of habit, if I ever found an app which really handled IMAP well, I'd be gone. If we don't test IMAP, then I might as well just be gone. POP has no attraction to me, and I can't imagine that it is going to do anything in the long run but lose out to IMAP. The more people use their mail on more than one machine, the more they are going to need IMAP or webmail, or something besides POP. There are plenty of others who will be happy to mark all the dates that I -- Dwight A. Corrin 316.303.9385 phone ahead to fax dcorrin at fastmail.fm photo galleries at http://dcorrin.smugmug.com photo blog at http://dcorrin.aminus3.com http://photos.vfxy.com/photoblogs/5882 Using IMAP with The Bat! 4.1.14.2 (RC2) on Windows Vista version 6,0 () ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 4.1.14.2 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
