I'm new to The Bat!, coming to it from having been a Thunderbird user for several years. Thunderbird has actually stood me in good stead up until lately when it started acting very sluggish and twitchy. I think I have passed some "magic" point in the size of my message store where Thunderbird starts to lose integrity. I started hunting around for alternatives to Thunderbird and was not holding out much hope as I've used just about every email program there is: Eudora, Pegasus, Outlook, Outlook Express, Becky Mail, PocoMail, GMail, Thunderbird, Opera M2, etc. I had never tried The Bat! though, so here I am...about two days into my 30-day trial of the Pro version. I'm very impressed so far except for the following...
In the message pane where you view the contents of an email, there is a button that appears to the right of the TO, FROM, SUBJECT lines for any HTML mail. If you click on this button, you get a two-item menu, the items being "Reload Images" and "Show URL Manager." Unfortunately, the "Reload Images" item is perpetually grayed-out and I've never seen it actually accessible or useable yet. I get a lot of mail from Amazon and for some reason, even though I've allowed all amazon-sourced images through the URL Manager and have nothing on the blocked list at all, some of the Amazon images in their newsletter emails do not show up. For example, the main Amazon logo at the top simply appears as an empty placeholder box with ALT tag info. I'm not sure why these particular images are not showing but the "Reload Images" option does not work (or I should say is not accessible), so I can't try to force them to download and render.
On the "View Mode Setup" dialog (accessed by right-clicking on the column headers in the message list pane and selecting "Message List Columns" from the context menu), if I click on the Help button, I get an error message stating: "Missing context help topic 11026."
Whenever I've tried to add words to the user spell check dictionary, this operation fails, sometimes with a warning dialog and sometimes not. I've noticed from posts on this forum that this is a known bug that has lasted through at least the last three versions of The Bat! Not sure what the point of having a user dictionary is if you can't add words to it.
Anyway, just three relatively minor items but I've found them in just a day or two of trialing The Bat! and I'm wondering how many more like these I might come across? Considering how stable and feature-replete The Bat! seems to be, I'm a bit disappointed in these little bugs that keep cropping up here and there, especially the "add word to user dictionary spell check" one that has lasted through at least three versions of the program. What's taking so long to fix that?
I'm wondering if somebody who has used The Bat! for a while can give me some assurances about the program or some advice in case I'm doing something wrong regarding the above items. BTW, not sure if it is needed but I'm using The Bat! Pro trial version on Vista Ultimate with 6 email POP accounts set up. Thanks!
P.S. Sorry for the length of this message...didn't realize how long I'd gone on.
In the message pane where you view the contents of an email, there is a button that appears to the right of the TO, FROM, SUBJECT lines for any HTML mail. If you click on this button, you get a two-item menu, the items being "Reload Images" and "Show URL Manager." Unfortunately, the "Reload Images" item is perpetually grayed-out and I've never seen it actually accessible or useable yet. I get a lot of mail from Amazon and for some reason, even though I've allowed all amazon-sourced images through the URL Manager and have nothing on the blocked list at all, some of the Amazon images in their newsletter emails do not show up. For example, the main Amazon logo at the top simply appears as an empty placeholder box with ALT tag info. I'm not sure why these particular images are not showing but the "Reload Images" option does not work (or I should say is not accessible), so I can't try to force them to download and render.
On the "View Mode Setup" dialog (accessed by right-clicking on the column headers in the message list pane and selecting "Message List Columns" from the context menu), if I click on the Help button, I get an error message stating: "Missing context help topic 11026."
Whenever I've tried to add words to the user spell check dictionary, this operation fails, sometimes with a warning dialog and sometimes not. I've noticed from posts on this forum that this is a known bug that has lasted through at least the last three versions of The Bat! Not sure what the point of having a user dictionary is if you can't add words to it.
Anyway, just three relatively minor items but I've found them in just a day or two of trialing The Bat! and I'm wondering how many more like these I might come across? Considering how stable and feature-replete The Bat! seems to be, I'm a bit disappointed in these little bugs that keep cropping up here and there, especially the "add word to user dictionary spell check" one that has lasted through at least three versions of the program. What's taking so long to fix that?
I'm wondering if somebody who has used The Bat! for a while can give me some assurances about the program or some advice in case I'm doing something wrong regarding the above items. BTW, not sure if it is needed but I'm using The Bat! Pro trial version on Vista Ultimate with 6 email POP accounts set up. Thanks!
P.S. Sorry for the length of this message...didn't realize how long I'd gone on.
You might so well to join the mailing lists TBUDL and TBBETA if you are so inclined and want to test the latest features as they are added.