I downloaded the eval version of the Bat and I'm deeply impressed by its filtering features and its overall "light-weight" (i.e. performance optimized) look and feel. However, I was also surprised to see some basic features missing or not being implemented properly. I really would like to purchase this program, but there are two major things that keep me fr om doing so:
A) Play a sound when an email is incoming
Wow... I don't think that there's another email client in 2014 that does not play a sound for an incoming email. I've searched everywhere in the preferences... then googled it and found this:
So, it appears as if you can only have a sound effect for incoming mail, when you use a POP3 mail account. It is NOT available for IMAP email accounts. I was REALLY surprised to find out about that.
B) "Mark as Read"/unread mails not synced correctly
This is another thing I find hard to believe... and it appears to be a major bug to me. I use IMAP email accounts with a TLS connection (in case this has something to do with it?).
When I click on a mail it gets marked as "read" in the main view (where the email subject lines are listed). However, in the tree view (wh ere all the folders and accounts are listed), it still shows 1 unread mail. Now, if I switch to another account (or another folder) and then switch back to the original folder, the mail sometimes is again marked as unread (although it was read and marked as read before) in the "subject view window". This is really strange.
After a certain amount of time (varies!), it gets marked as read in the tree-view, too. But this is nowhere close to the time it was actually read.
Will these two things be fixed soon? Or is there something I forgot to configure to make these two annoying issues go away?
A) Play a sound when an email is incoming
Wow... I don't think that there's another email client in 2014 that does not play a sound for an incoming email. I've searched everywhere in the preferences... then googled it and found this:
So, it appears as if you can only have a sound effect for incoming mail, when you use a POP3 mail account. It is NOT available for IMAP email accounts. I was REALLY surprised to find out about that.
B) "Mark as Read"/unread mails not synced correctly
This is another thing I find hard to believe... and it appears to be a major bug to me. I use IMAP email accounts with a TLS connection (in case this has something to do with it?).
When I click on a mail it gets marked as "read" in the main view (where the email subject lines are listed). However, in the tree view (wh ere all the folders and accounts are listed), it still shows 1 unread mail. Now, if I switch to another account (or another folder) and then switch back to the original folder, the mail sometimes is again marked as unread (although it was read and marked as read before) in the "subject view window". This is really strange.
After a certain amount of time (varies!), it gets marked as read in the tree-view, too. But this is nowhere close to the time it was actually read.
Will these two things be fixed soon? Or is there something I forgot to configure to make these two annoying issues go away?
Sometimes I don't understand the Ritlabs team, they create and offer us new features regularly but they don't like fixing some odd behavior... I suggest you open a ticket yourself, maybe they will remember that they have to work on this bug