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How well does it scale?, With 1,000s of messages
 
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Over the years I have unfortunately accumulated a dozen e-mail accounts, which I have to check. At the moment I use Windows Live Mail which is not as fast and responsive as I would like it to be - but it does check my IMAP, POP3, and Hotmail accounts well. It also has a decent newsreader. What I don't like about it is its polished up interface with a custom theme, and its stubborness to keep on "integrating with Windows Live". I would rather much have a standard interface like The Bat! (talk about perception vs. reality - perception does play a big role).

Now my questions are:
1) Does The Bat! support Hotmail out-of-the-box? If not, are there plugins to support Hotmail natively (natively = not as a POP3 gateway). If not, is The Bat!'s plugin architecture flexible enough to write an additional mail protocol? There are several Hotmail-to-POP3 gateways (think Thunderbird) but they obviously don't support Drafts or integrated-SMTP in the HTTPmail/Hotmail protocol.

2) How well does The Bat scale to a dozen email accounts, with thousands of messages each? Does it provide common Inbox/searching views, while at the same time clearly distincting accounts? Windows Live Mail does that quite well.

3) Can The Bat's internal email database be indexed by the Windows Desktop Search service on XP, or the Indexing Service on Vista+ ?

4) Does The Bat support nttp?
 
 
 
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1) The Bat doesn't support hotmail, you'll need a web to pop3 proxy for that

2) TB has no problem with multiple accounts, I know of people with twenty or more accounts, thousands of messages isn´t a problem either, my main account contains more than 110,000 messages.
TB separates its accounts clearly, each with its own inbox, but you can create virtual common folders that indedx messages across accounts and folders.

3) TB doesn't support indexing by windows desktop search, but it's possible that there are plugins that support that. I know that there are plugins that suppot google desktop search.

4) TB doesn't support NNTP, though there are people that read newsgroups with TB by means of to a news to mail proxy.
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Thanks. I'll download the plugin SDK and see if its possible to make a native protocol for Hotmail. Other than that, probably recode an existing solution for IMAP (which is more natural for Hotmail than POP3).

Lack of NNTP support is disappointing - but an IMAP gateway comes to mind as well :) Off hand, do you know any good NNTP client then? It would have to be similar to The Bat! - classic style, fast, and responsive :)
 
 
 
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