Email

[andrewducker]

After going through 6 different mail clients, I've settled back on The Bat.

None of the others were anywhere near as flexible or as user-friendly. I couldn't right-click to add addresses, or they kept trying to make my mails pretty, or they wouldn't indent HTML mail properly when converting it to plain text, Or they didn't automatically fill in addresses on the To line as I typed. The Bat handles all of this perfectly, as well as allowing me to write email templates as complex as I like, rotate my .sigs with every mail and generally handle things incredibly smoothly.

The only thing it doesn't do is handle web images inline on HTML email. But I can live without that this week.

If anyone has any suggestions for a better email client, I'd be happy to hear them, but it's going to have t be pretty smooth to beat this.

Comments

Baroque

[markpasc.livejournal.com]

I tried The Bat and it was kind of scary, with all the widgets and options. Is there some method for managing all the doodads besides using the program enough to get used to it? It reminds me of Opera, its breadth of menu options.

I'm not sure why I would want templates--I don't even use sigs in Eudora, I type them. It also doesn't (what TextPad calls) "constrain the cursor to the text," and that got on my nerves.

Ignorance

[andrewducker]

My simple method was to ignore all the extra bells and whistles. The first time the thing popped up which lists new messages in a scrolling box, I right-clicked on it and told it to go away.

I don't use most of the templates, but I've customised the reply one so that it says
"%ODateEn, %OTimeLongEn, %OFromFName wrote:"
which translates to:
"Thursday, January 24, 2002, 12:49:54 PM, markpasc wrote:"
and I love the indenting with the users initials.

I also like having all of my .sigs in a huge file, and having a random one pop up.

I don't use vast amounts of the functionality, but I use bit, and what I do use seems to work very smoothly.

Re: Ignorance

[markpasc.livejournal.com]

I'll have to give it another try then. =)