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POPFile and The Bat! v3.60.07
 
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Hello,

I am new to The Bat! and am trying to get it working with my spam filter POPFile. My experience with the filter built-in to The Bat! is that it just isn't as accurate as my already heavily trained POPFile. Because of this it is a requirement that my e-mail client work with POPFile.

POPFile has a limitiation to the number of mail checks that can happen at once. This is mainly due to the language it is written in. I have 10 e-mail accounts. If I check them all at once with The Bat! the connection center shows connections to the servers hung up and they never go away. You can't end then, you have to kill thebat.exe. Very annoying.

Every other client I've ever used has a way to limit the number of mail checking threads used. This basically allows you to say "I have ten e-mail accounts but only check 3 at a time". That way when you check messages you don't run into this problem with things hanging.

Is there a way to configure The Bat! to accomplish this? I'm currently working around this by setting half of the accounts to check every 10 minutes and half to check every 15 minutes. This works around the issue for automated checks but I still can't manually say check all so it doesn't work long term.

Any help would be great.

Thanks,
jkdarkfire
 
 
 
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I don't think you can limit the number of connections. For the automatics checks you get all connections at the same time after 30 minutes. If I were you I'd set three account at 5 minutes, three accounts at 7 minutes, two accounts at 11 minutes and the last two at 13 minutes. Because those are all prime numbers it'll take 5*7*11*13=5005 minutes before all connections are called together.
What is the maximum number of accounts for POPFile?

Another option would be a utility like hamster that collects multiple accounts in one account and to trigger that with POPFile.
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colors.ini in your mail directory
I'm not sure of this, but it looks like the most logical choice.
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Hello,

Thanks for the suggestion. The problem with doing any kind of timed checks on the mail is that I can't go into The Bat! and say "check all accounts now" the problem surfaces and that is an action that I need to be able to do. The timed checking works fine if I stagger the timed check events for the accounts.

I believe the limit of connections in POPFile is something like 5 or 6 mail checking threads at once.

If there isn't a way to control the number of connections in The Bat! so it spawns fewer mail checking threads at once I'll just have to continue evaluating different clients. I was hoping there would be away because there has been in just about any other client I've ever used.

Thanks,
Jeff
 
 
 
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Hello

I'm about to evaluate The Bat 6.8 as a possible alternative to Eudora 7, and need to know if it can work with POPFile which I've been using for a few years as an anti-SPAM tool.

Thank you.
 
 
 
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