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Can someone tell me how to switch of the "Download URL Manager"?  It is totally irittating and distracts from using the Bat.  If it is so useful how come Outlook does not need it?

There has to be some way to get rid of it.

Thomas
 
 
 
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If it is so useful how come Outlook does not need it?
You can't compare TB! to Outlook! EVER! :)
TB! wants to make your eMail experience safe that's why it a)renders html NOT with the Internet Explorer engine and b) lets you decide which stuff you want to download from the net.

But yeah, a Allow ALL/NONE button would be nice to have.
It might help to unset the button to the lower left "show this window automatically". I guess the behaviour is then to not allow any download until you open the download manager.
 
 
 
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Dominik,

Yes indeed..  I agree that safety is important when accessing anything from the Internet.  However it comes a time when too much protection simply gets in the way of your Internet experience.  Just ask anyone who is still using Symantec products...  

I already run Comodo, AVG and Lavasoft all the time.  This has always proved sufficient and the few "attacks" I have had have never resulted in big problems.

The Bat should allow for full HTML and URL linking in emails, but only at the users discretion and risk.. By all means put up disclaimers and periodic pop-ups to this effect.  But please keep the default and obligatory protection within the realms of usability.

By the way, you seem to know a thing or two.  I have two questions that no-one seems to have been able to answer (and version 4.0 does not fix them).

1.  The bat has started to strip file extensions when I save attachements.  Any idea why this is?  It only happens with the Bat and is very irritating.

2.   Periodically when I forward emails (and I do this a lot) the attachements in the email to be forwarded are removed.  The only way to work around this is to save the attachements (which strips the extension) and reattaching to the forwarded email.  

Thanks for your help.

Thomas
 
 
 
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to your attachment problems: no idea, I don't experience this with Voyager 4.0.18.4
Only thing I can think of is using the latest version, maybe it was a bug that has been fixed. The newest one is 4.0.20.0 (there is a newer beta though).

Your name sounds German, if you are indeed German, i can recommend the inofficial German forum at http://www.batboard.net/
 
 
 
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Having lived with the new version of the Bat now for a few months..  I have discosvered that everyone I know who use it simple click "Accept" on all URL requests.  There simply is not time to investigate all of them.  How can you tell most of the time if the URL is safe or not?  Way too time consuming to check!

The only real way is to copy and paste the URL into a web browser...  which if course is no more safe than if The Bat was to show the link natively.

Please could the programmers remove this irritation to what is a very good program.

There must be some way to "sand-box" the activity of URLS to only be effective in the email window.

Thomas
 
 
 
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