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Hi,

I have just experienced what I would consider a fairly major privacy issue. An application I was using crashed, opened The Bat! and automatically sent an error log *plus full desktop screenshot* to the author.

This is a major breach of privacy. Surely, The Bat! should at the very least ask for confirmation if a third-party application attempts to use it to send e-mail.

J.
 
 
 
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I guess TB does that, because you've installed it as simple MAPI client. Otherwise there would be no way for any program to send any message, without simple MAPI the only thing that should be able to happen is the opening of a new message in the editor.
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Thanks for the info. How do I uninstall TB as the MAPI client?

J.
 
 
 
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good question - you INSTALL it via Options/Preferences/Applications, but there is no uninstall button... and I did not find any reg entries with the tbmapi.dll besides TBs own reference... on microsoft.com I couldn't find an answer, too :-(

a workaround would be - I guess - to set an account password, which at least should stop TB sending mails w/o being regularly started (proper account option given)... if you need to authenticate mails on sending to your ISPs server, you could also delete a stored password, so that you had to authenticate each send manually...
 
 
 
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Or may I suggest - heaven forbid, run up Outlook / Outlook Express and set one of those to be the default MAPI client.
Anyway shouldn't the application that crashed ASK before sending a crash log to whoever ? Maybe thers is your problem..
Even Microsoft Apps do thet  :D  
 
 
 
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You are right in that there is a facility in the crash dialog - a sort of small print that can be disabled but which is set by default and which I missed the first (and second) time. Still, I would rather TB opened and created the e-mail but then waited for me to hit the Send button which, if I understand correctly, it would if TB was not the default MAPI client. So, the question is why does TB not provide an option to remove itself as the MAPI client?

J
 
 
 
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