A Bat user since 1.62, and someone who has spent money on every upgrade, I have finally had to take my six figure's worth of e-mails and move to Outlook 2007 (whose unicode PSTs can now go up 20GB).
Can it handle the large volume of mail that The Bat! users lover to accumulate?
Finally, yes.
What about templates?
You can't compare the flexibility and power and appeal of the Bat templates and macros to a majority of users to Outlook's templates. It's an unfair fight, and the bat beats outlook to a pulp.
Is it as fast as the bat?
No, but a lot faster than it used to be.
Is it less buggy than the bat?
Depends on what features you are using, but if it is, by only a hair (on my system)
Does it have IMAP/Echange Support?
Yes! And it lets me handle my calendaring and tasks and contact management!
Does it synch with programs that let you enter in details of mail, address, and contacts once in one place?
Yes! Yes! YES!
Does it have that great address lookup tab?
Nope. Really going to miss that.
Is instant search better or faster than the bat's?
Nowadays, it is close.
Is it as safe as the bat!?
Not by a long shot.
Built in ability to find duplicates?
Only if you call an eyeball scan of the folder "built-in"
What about inserting random cookies?
It can, if you find the right add in, but it is just a shadow of the flexibility that you have with the bat!
I hate microsoft and outlook especially. Window's mail too, though I think it is loads better than Outlook Express (I'm on Vista).
But at the end of the day, I got tired of tracking everything in different places, using outlook for work, home contacts and mail in the bat, and nothing from there on my sidekick or blackberry so I had to reenter my phone numbers, no official plugins for dekstop search engines, or synchronization tools, etc. I needed something to help me UNIFY my communication tasks, and I kept on waiting for Ritlabs to come through. Barca looked like a possibility... but anyway. The Bat always led the way before and everyone else followed. It was easy to ignore buggy code in those circumstances. No longer. I'm busy and I need software that will help me save some time.
I will be eagerly waiting to move back, I will keep an eye on the latest major releases, looking for an excuse to jump away from Microsoft Outlook. When the leader of e-mail communication realizes that e-mail is now more than just e-mail, I will be back.
Really, save me! I want to be saved... But continuing to use the bat as it is just left me seeing what was missing.
Can it handle the large volume of mail that The Bat! users lover to accumulate?
Finally, yes.
What about templates?
You can't compare the flexibility and power and appeal of the Bat templates and macros to a majority of users to Outlook's templates. It's an unfair fight, and the bat beats outlook to a pulp.
Is it as fast as the bat?
No, but a lot faster than it used to be.
Is it less buggy than the bat?
Depends on what features you are using, but if it is, by only a hair (on my system)
Does it have IMAP/Echange Support?
Yes! And it lets me handle my calendaring and tasks and contact management!
Does it synch with programs that let you enter in details of mail, address, and contacts once in one place?
Yes! Yes! YES!
Does it have that great address lookup tab?
Nope. Really going to miss that.
Is instant search better or faster than the bat's?
Nowadays, it is close.
Is it as safe as the bat!?
Not by a long shot.
Built in ability to find duplicates?
Only if you call an eyeball scan of the folder "built-in"
What about inserting random cookies?
It can, if you find the right add in, but it is just a shadow of the flexibility that you have with the bat!
I hate microsoft and outlook especially. Window's mail too, though I think it is loads better than Outlook Express (I'm on Vista).
But at the end of the day, I got tired of tracking everything in different places, using outlook for work, home contacts and mail in the bat, and nothing from there on my sidekick or blackberry so I had to reenter my phone numbers, no official plugins for dekstop search engines, or synchronization tools, etc. I needed something to help me UNIFY my communication tasks, and I kept on waiting for Ritlabs to come through. Barca looked like a possibility... but anyway. The Bat always led the way before and everyone else followed. It was easy to ignore buggy code in those circumstances. No longer. I'm busy and I need software that will help me save some time.
I will be eagerly waiting to move back, I will keep an eye on the latest major releases, looking for an excuse to jump away from Microsoft Outlook. When the leader of e-mail communication realizes that e-mail is now more than just e-mail, I will be back.
Really, save me! I want to be saved... But continuing to use the bat as it is just left me seeing what was missing.