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Dear gosh antifreeze we are doomed! Well not really, but it's gonna be a pain to reconfigure everything to another email client.

well looking at how I am posting this some light years after you posted that, I wonder if you are on the outlook express bandwagon now...
10 June 2007 16:05:29, Melanie D.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic4689/message18112/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic4689/message18112/ Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:05:29 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client oh dear... thinking of moving to Outlook in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
I'm contemplating the same thing, unfortunately, due the delay issues. Takes some 5 seconds after pressing "Send",
even if its just queued.

Mark    
29 May 2007 19:38:26, PCS.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic4689/message17914/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic4689/message17914/ Tue, 29 May 2007 19:38:26 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client oh dear... thinking of moving to Outlook in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
best app depends on your needs.

TB does not have anything similar to 1/ (as I know), so if it's really important for you, maybe Outlook is the better choice. But it's just one feature.
As for 2/, I've never used imap, but one would expect this to be improved in the next releases. So the Outlook advantage here is temporary.

From the point of view of my needs, TB has no competition.
28 May 2007 19:10:59, bigg one.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic4689/message17885/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic4689/message17885/ Mon, 28 May 2007 19:10:59 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client oh dear... thinking of moving to Outlook in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.

No great swarm of people ready to defend the Bat then?
Or point out all the bad things about Outlook?

I was hoping someone would try to convince me that I'd be mad to leave the Bat!
28 May 2007 14:18:30, Antifreeze.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic4689/message17879/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic4689/message17879/ Mon, 28 May 2007 14:18:30 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client oh dear... thinking of moving to Outlook in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.

I love the Bat and hate Outlook, but I've discovered a couple of things that make Outlook indispensible over the Bat.

1/
If you have an Access database of customers, Outlook can 'share' the database columns in its own 'contacts' fields. This means if you edit the Access database, your Outlook contacts get updated automatically, and if you edit the Outlook contact, the database gets updated automatically! That really is a stroke of genius in a business environment.

2/
I tried imap for the first time last night. For hours I struggled with the Bat trying to get imap to work. I eventually loaded Outlook and set-up an imap account; it worked flawlessly and completely automatically.

With the Bat, I kept having to manually refresh, syncronise and purge the folders. Even doing this, the Bat got out of sync very quickly, meaning messages left on the server had to be deleted by ftp.

Can anyone say anything at all to keep me from having to use Outlook? I really don't want to, but these two features could become integral to the way I use email.


27 May 2007 13:09:15, Antifreeze.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic4689/message17866/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic4689/message17866/ Sun, 27 May 2007 13:09:15 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client