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Can't figure out how to get the images to display in HTML mail, I get x's where images should be.
 
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When I receive HTML mail, a lot of messages display x's where the images should be. When I check the source, it's referencing an external server for the image. Is this a problem? In some cases it's displaying a Message.html thing in a little pane along with the message, but no images.

I'm desperately trying to get off of Eudora, onto The Bat!, but having issues here with mail import, and mail reception (maybe settings?)
Thanks!
-ron stephens
San Jose, CA
 
 
 
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When I receive HTML mail, a lot of messages display x's where the images should be. When I check the source, it's referencing an external server for the image. Is this a problem? In some cases it's displaying a Message.html thing in a little pane along with the message, but no images.

TB doesn't show images that aren't included with the message. It's designed not to do so. Plain security, because when you'd like to get stuff from the internet you should use a browser that's developed to deal with the accompaning hazards.
When you'd really like to view those images, you can double click the icon of the HTML attachment, that will open it with your preferred browser.

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I'm desperately trying to get off of Eudora, onto The Bat!, but having issues here with mail import, and mail reception (maybe settings?)

About mail import from Eudora I only know that it should work. What are your problems with mail reception? What's your provider?
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I'm just a user of The Bat! I don't work for Ritlabs.
 
 
 
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Ok. I'll have to reevaluate things, now that I know it's designed that way.

BTW, my friend tried to use your demo (I bought The Bat!, but he didn't yet.) Yowee. He musta ran across every bug in The Bat! ...

He was importing about a Gig of email from Netscape 4.7. Man, it slowed to a crawl. Some inboxes took over 45 minutes, and filled his desktop with thousands of .tmp files. ??? Wow. He wasn't impressed. He tried to move the data to create his mailbox structures. Once he did that, the mail started coming in from one account, and ending up in the inbox in another account. He tried to move it back to the right inbox, and bam, The Bat froze up. He spent two days trying to get those mailboxes in, and have things work right. He decided to use Eudora instead (which is where I'm trying to get off of). Now I'm kinda scared, after seeing all his problems...I have FIVE gigs of email.
 
 
 
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It's not quite my demo, actually. I'm not associated with Ritlabs at all, apart from being a very satisfied customer.

As far as amounts of mail are concerned, TB is capable of handling large message bases. \I've got over 100 000 messages on my system without any problems, however they're only 840 MB in size

The best way to keep your mail organized is to divide it into separate folders and it's really a very bad idea to keep your mail in your account's inbox, most problems I heard about were caused by keeping lots of messages in the inbox as an archive.

However, I still have got my registration mail from July 2000 and I've never had a message base crash and as a beta tester I wasn't always using the most stable versions.
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I'm just a user of The Bat! I don't work for Ritlabs.
 
 
 
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TB doesn't show images that aren't included with the message. It's designed not to do so. Plain security, because when you'd like to get stuff from the internet you should use a browser that's developed to deal with the accompaning hazards. When you'd really like to view those images, you can double click the icon of the HTML attachment, that will open it with your preferred browser.

So what you're saying is, there's no way to circumvent this? I'm currently trying out The Bat (migrating from Thunderbird), and practically the only objection I have is this. My newsletters get pretty mangled by this setting - and opening individual images doesn't really work for that. In Thunderbird I had the setting to retrieve these images but filtered them through my ad-filter proxy (Proxomitron). I have my own precautions and the impression I had made of The Bat from other features was that I left it to the user to decide how best to handle the problems accompanying email?
 
 
 
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Well, yes, that's what I'm saying. When you want to see pictures that are not included with the message, TB offers only the possibility to load it in your browser.
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I'm just a user of The Bat! I don't work for Ritlabs.
 
 
 
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Maybe there could be an option to allow it with for instance white listed mail? Or By means of a filter rule. In some cases I do want to see the images...

Peter
 
 
 
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yes me too, i'm trying out TB as well(from thunder bird) and it had this alert and lets us to enable images in HTML or not.

I find it inconvenient to open in a browser because i get soo many html mails and opening each in a new brower doesn't seem logical.  :|  
 
 
 
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I was evaluating The Bat! for some time and then I finally decided to migrate to Thunderbird, just for the reason because it has this alert to give the possibility to show or not the images in html.
Opening tons of messages again in my browser is quite boring. Can you include this option in The Bat?

I like The Bat saving attachments in separate folder and Thunderbird doesn't do so.

What's good then in Thunderbird is that I can choose if I want all my incoming mail from different accounts in a single folder or to use separate one.

Well, why can't you make a perfect e-mail client?
 
 
 
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Actually this is not the place to submit wishes/feature requests, here's a canned response:

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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I'm just a user of The Bat! I don't work for Ritlabs.
 
 
 
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What's good then in Thunderbird is that I can choose if I want all my incoming mail from different accounts in a single folder or to use separate one.

you can easlily create a filter to point your mail from different accounts into a single folder.
 
 
 
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