Hallo Cyrille, On Sat, 22 May 2004 18:08:26 +0200GMT (22-5-04, 18:08 +0200, where I live), you wrote:
C> I am thinking about making TB my default mail client. Good choice. C> My situation: I have to handle mail in 6 European languages and (at C> least) 3 different charsets. That should offer no diffuculties. C> My question: I would like TB to choose automatically C> * the right language template, You should create those yourself. Considering the rest of your wishes, you'd best create those templates as Quick Templates (QT) and pick them via your account templates and some criteria. C> * the right charset and Can be done with the %CharSet= macro (see the help-file). You can place that macro in your language template. C> * the right spell checker Can be done with the %Language= macro (see the help file). Since your language template is language specific, that's the most logical place to insert this macro. C> according to the following criteria: C> - New mail templates: according to the domain extension of the recipients C> address. (But what should happen in case of .com or .net domains?) Can be done with a series of nested if macros. But what would you do with an Hungarian with an address at gmx.de Better would be to do something with your address book (AB). You could either use AB templates (templates associated group contacts in your AB or associated with AB groups) or consequently insert the Country field in the AB for every contact. This will help you pick the language automatically for everybody in your AB. For new contacts you'd either have to create a template that uses the aforementioned series of nested templates (with all possible options for mistakes) or create a general template that'll make do for anything (you can always manually pick your correct language QT) or insert the recipient in your AB with the correct language setting. C> - Reply / Forward templates: according to the language used in the C> original message. Forget about that. That's impossible. Without too much trouble I can device a message (that won't make any sense, but that isn't the point) that includes twenty words that can be found in three or four languages and then you expect TB to tell you what language that is? I'll readily admit that there probably is some language recognizing software, but that would a bit of specialized stuff. You'd better use the same criteria as for your new mail templates, I suppose that would make things easier for you to fix any bugs you encounter in your language picking system. C> (In this case there is no problem with the choice of the C> charsets, because TB can keep the charset of the original message.) I can think of several instances where you'd like to override the charset chosen by your contact (I'm doing that every now and then), so it what be best IMO to pick it with your language template. C> (Or does anybody have a better idea what could be the criteria for C> the choice?) The easiest way to achieve this, is via AB group templates. Create AB groups, call them Russian, Hungarian, Dutch, English, Swahili (oops, that's not European), whatever. Add your contacts to the right language group. Associate the language templates with the groups and you're done. You pick an address and TB will pick the language. To do your maintenance for these language templates, it's best to create them as QT's and insert them into your AB group templates with the %QInclude= macro (see the help file) This will make it possible for you to easily pick a language for somebody not in your AB or when you want to address a Russian in Hungarian. C> Is this possible? If yes, how? I suppose it's possible and I've addressed the how. ;-) Note that whatever system you use, as soon as you pick your first addressee you're stuck with the language. So when you send one mail to somebody Irish, somebody Russian and somebody German, you've got to use the same template (and language) to all three of them. C> Important: I don't want different folders for different languages. My C> folders are organized by topic. I couldn't care less. C> Does somebody out there has some other hints what could be helpful in C> dealing with mail in multiple languages? Probably. You're not the only one mailing in different languages. -- Groetjes, Roelof Disclaimer: Any opinion stated in this message is not necessarily shared by my budgies or rabbits. ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.10.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
