Dear tbudl, I make no secret: though The Bat! (TB) has been my default mailer for over a year, I have played with others, including Eudora, M2 in Opera, Pegasus, (even Outlook Express and Outlook..again - VERY briefly), Mozilla Mail, Mozilla Thunderbird, various mailers in Linux (K-Mail, Evolution), Courier/Calypso, Pocomail etc. At work I use Lotus Notes (no choice; formerly Pegasus - again, no choice). I looked at Becky, and decided not to bother. (Apologies to Becky fans)
(Looking at this list above..I think I need to get a life!! ;-) The main one I am playing with 'on the side' at present is Pocomail (PM). (LocoMail? ..only kidding). (BTW, almost every mailer I have played with has a much more capable address book than PM. And almost all look better than TB) There are a lot of nice things about PM...and I am thinking the 'perfect' email for me would be TB, with the appearance, 'skinnability', and some of the nice little touches of PM. Yes....I know that personal preferences (re features and appearance) have a big impact on one's choice of mailer. Despite some of the current bugs (eg in HTML): I see TB as being fairly boring and dull in appearance, but fast, reliable, fairly easy to use, and perhaps unsurpassed for power and flexibility. If there was an easy way to improve the appearance of TB... eg change the grey backdrop for something else...even a nice buff colour (as in some of the screenshots of TB I have seen).... then it would make all the difference. Well, a big improvement at least. Call me fickle, call me 'superficial/but most humans (apart from the nerd-iest of power-users ;-) like something that is not only functional, but nice to look at.... In short, function should have priority, but it is important to have form as well. But...on the other hand...a program can't be all things to all people. Hmmm ... Am I helping?? ;-) cc D Wilde (I.T. guru & fellow BMW rider)...I was going to introduce the analogy of BMW bikes (highly competent but not loved by the masses) vs (say) Harley Davidsons (majoring more on form than function), but decided not to go there <g> -- Kind regards, Stephen Love 25 Lonsdale St ARMIDALE NSW AUSTRALIA Friday, 16 January 2004 08:22 + 1100 Mailer: The Bat! v2.02.3 CE ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.02.3 CE | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
