http://www.ritlabs.com New posts in Newbie help of forum at www.ritlabs.com [www.ritlabs.com] en http://backend.userland.com/rss2 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:21:50 +0300 Newbie help Carnt see pictures in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
since version 4.0, The Bat! has Download manager for images stored on remote server, if You select HTML message, TB should display this manager and if You ALLOW hostname of that image(s), TB should download and display them.

Images are stored in subdirectory CACHE, check if You have it on hdd
12 August 2009 11:21:50, Marek Mikus.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic8463/message29612/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic8463/message29612/ Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:21:50 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client Newbie help Carnt see pictures in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
I'm a newbie too, but I have been able to see inline images, provided they are really attached (i.e., enclosed and downloaded along with the message). If the message just contains HTML references for the e-mail client to fetch the pictures fr om a Web server at the time of reading, The Bat! won't do it.

And this is not a bug, but a feature! A very secure and highly recommended one, because such downloads can introduce malware and compromise your privacy (e.g., it is common for spammers and phishers to include a reference to an invisible 1x1 pixel transparent GIF image, whose URL contains a code that tells them that you have read the message, and therefore that your e-mail address is valid, useful to send more spam or to be sold at a premium price to other spammers as a confirmed working address).

If you really trust the sender and want to see the message with all images, you can open it in your browser.

However, having been a long-time Pegasus Mail user, I think the way PMail handles this situation is better: like The Bat!, it doesn't download images that are not already attached, but it offers you the option to command it to do so (with a scary security warning asking for your confirmation, but it does it).

I recently registered a product and received the confirmation by e-mail. I was expecting that message, and knew it was legitimate and harmless. In Pegasus, I could download the images and then print the confirmation with all images and headers, to be fully documented. In The Bat!, I could only open it in the browser, and then the message headers (From, To, Date, etc., which are important for your documentation) didn't appear and couldn't be printed.

Oh, and to each his own: I love the side pane showing the attachments! That's because I usually save them to proper files on my HDD, then delete them fr om the message, where MIME encoding makes them much larger than their real size. I also routinely delete the HTML part of messages, leaving only the plain text - I'm interested in what people are telling me, not in decoration. (Needless to say, I never send HTML messages myself...)

This saves a lot of disk space, because there are HTML messages that are up to 20 times larger than the text in them. It's true that HDDs are huge today and space is hardly a concern, but when one has over 48,000 messages in his mailboxes, like I do, I'm glad for the shorter transfer time when I backup my data to DVDs or to a slow external HDD.

When all attachments (and HTML) are deleted, the side pane disappears altogether. Being a newbie, I don't know if there is a way to configure The Bat! not to show it, but you can certainly use the mouse to make it very narrow and almost imperceptible.
10 August 2009 15:03:02, goytabr.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic8463/message29594/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic8463/message29594/ Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:03:02 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client Newbie help Carnt see pictures in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
Hi all, when l get an email oh lets say gamespot.. l can only see the text and not the pictures attached. lt`s like they have been blocked anyway l could change this.
also l want to get rid of the side bit that next to the email, were it shows you the attachments thats been sent witht he email..

l hope l make sense.
Thanks
Paul
04 August 2009 11:54:04, boeingqa.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic8463/message29553/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic8463/message29553/ Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:54:04 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client