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List of questions and suggestions after moving to The Bat
 
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Hi,

I have moved from pocomail to The Bat 2 weeks ago and have a few questions and suggestions from this 2-week experience:

1. How to remove the "delete message" confirmation that appears sometimes when I delete a message from the inbox ?

2. How to remove different colors that seems to be automatically added afetr message quotes such as ">" or  ">>" ?

3. I have installed a junk mail plugin. But it looks like the TheBat filters are evaluated AFTER the junk mail. Is there a way to have them evaluated before ?

4. When I receive html messages, sometimes there is a background image. Is there a way to not display it ? Done either by The Bat, or by writing a filter removing the HTML code responsible for this ?

5. When I click on a mail folder in the left pane, I would like that the last message present in this mail folder be selected and displayed. And I mean, really selected, so that if I press now CTRL F  for example, the search box pops up.

6. "From:" column: I would like to display the email rather than the name

7. How to remove  the acknowledgements of receipt that are automatically created in my outbox when I receive messages ?

8. Search filter: when I'm writing text in this box (the one just above the message list), sometimes my text is suddenly replaced with another text (a previous search string). I guess this is a bug to fix.

9. Spellchecker: if I write "ud" (typo) instead of "du" (right word), the spellchecker doesn't propose "du" in the suggested words list. I think you should add a rule for 2-letter word to suggest the inverted word if it is present in the dictionnary

10. Spellchecker: in french the spellchecker should treat a word coming after an apostrophe as a separate word: for example if I write "l'wodr" it should propose "l'word". As of now, it detects the typo but never proposes the right fix.

11. Is there a way to create a macro that would run a predefined command line with parts of a message (body, subject, sender) as parameter ?
e.g "c:\path\file.exe " /s=subject /b=body

Thanks in advance for your answers ;)

All in all I found the bat a great product and very happy with my move.


Laurent
 
 
 
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1. How to remove the "delete message" confirmation that appears sometimes when I delete a message from the inbox ?

My best guess would be:
Options -> Preferences -> Other options -> Confirmations
But I'm not sure how to interpret the 'sometimes' part of this question.

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2. How to remove different colors that seems to be automatically added afetr message quotes such as ">" or ">>" ?

Options -> Preferences -> Viewer/Editor -> Plain Text/MicroEd
or
Options -> Preferences -> Viewer/Editor -> HTML/Windows Editor
And adapt the colouring scheme of the viewer/editor you're using.

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3. I have installed a junk mail plugin. But it looks like the TheBat filters are evaluated AFTER the junk mail. Is there a way to have them evaluated before ?

Can't be done, plug-ins are let loose before the sorting office does its job.

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4. When I receive html messages, sometimes there is a background image. Is there a way to not display it ? Done either by The Bat, or by writing a filter removing the HTML code responsible for this ?
You can view the incoming message as plain text, but that will forget about all html formatting, that's my personal preference.
You can set this at:
Options -> Preferences -> Viewer/Editor
It's not possible to partial disable HTML, nor is it possible to alter incoming messages.

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5. When I click on a mail folder in the left pane, I would like that the last message present in this mail folder be selected and displayed. And I mean, really selected, so that if I press now CTRL F for example, the search box pops up.
Can't be done, when you select something in the account tree pane, then Windows' defaults place the focus on that pane.

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6. "From:" column: I would like to display the email rather than the name
Can't be done currently, though I believe that that wish is shared by more users. You could search the wish list and add your support.

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7. How to remove the acknowledgements of receipt that are automatically created in my outbox when I receive messages ?
Do you want them to be removed after they're sent or do you want to keep them from being sent (and created)?
Removing them after they're sent can be done with an outgoing filter. Keeping them from being created can be done at:
Account -> Properties -> Templates -> Reading confirmation -> Action
I've got this set to 'Ignore' and that means that they aren't created at all.
Note that is is an account specific setting, so you'll have to adjust every account to your wishes.

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8. Search filter: when I'm writing text in this box (the one just above the message list), sometimes my text is suddenly replaced with another text (a previous search string). I guess this is a bug to fix.

I can't reproduce that behaviour. What version are you using and could you be more specfic about how to reproduce?

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9. Spellchecker: if I write "ud" (typo) instead of "du" (right word), the spellchecker doesn't propose "du" in the suggested words list. I think you should add a rule for 2-letter word to suggest the inverted word if it is present in the dictionnary

Add it to the wish list

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10. Spellchecker: in french the spellchecker should treat a word coming after an apostrophe as a separate word: for example if I write "l'wodr" it should propose "l'word". As of now, it detects the typo but never proposes the right fix.

I know, happens to me too when I'm wrioting in Dutch (my native language)

You could add this to the wish list.

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11. Is there a way to create a macro that would run a predefined command line with parts of a message (body, subject, sender) as parameter ?
e.g "c:\path\file.exe " /s=subject /b=body

Macros put stuff in a message body, they're not supposed to execute programs. To execute a program on receipt of a message, create a filter with the 'run external program' action. You can feed command line parameters to the program with macros as %Subject.

There could be a plug-in that offers a macro to do this and insert the returned text to the message body, but I'm not totally sure there is one. Nor do I remember what plug-in that might be as I'm currently running without plug-ins.

As a general remark. This is a user to user support forum, not a hotwired interface straight to the developers. Wishes should be brought via the wish list.

You can insert wishes in the wish list, by logging in to:
https://www.ritlabs.com/bt/main_page.php
Choose 'The Bat! wishes' and add a new item.
First check whether someone has made the same wish, then you can
support that wish.
Wishes that are supported by more users are more likely to be granted
than wishes by one. And the system isn't smart enough to understand
that wishes might be the same.
And add just one wish per entry. Makes everything easier, both for
other users who want to add support and for the developers.







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There could be a plug-in that offers a macro to do this and insert the returned text to the message body, but I'm not totally sure there is one. Nor do I remember what plug-in that might be as I'm currently running without plug-ins.
%XMP_RunCmd - http://www.gaijin.at/tbpxmp.php
%Shell_Cmd - http://szumi.one.pl/thebat/ShellPlugin/
 
 
 
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