I wonder if there is a way to have the two synchronize to each other to avoid confusion.-superboyac
You're in luck, there is -- in the view modes, as you suspected. You'll benefit from playing with them, but to save you the trouble I'll walk you through getting your folders squared away real quick right now.
Get the sorting etc. setup the way you want it in any of the windows/pains -- once things are perfect, right click on a column title (like date, from, etc. it doesn't matter what one) and select "save view mode to" then "<generic view mode>". (or you can give it your own name, doesn't matter. To make sure that one is used by all the folders, click view -> global view mode -> manage view modes. Select your preferred view mode, select 'use by' and then check all the folders you want to display with that view mode. Probably most of them, but not trash, sent or drafts. Once that's done, any edit you make to that view mode will reflect on all the folders that use it. Handy. This is a fairly new feature, back in the old days we had to configure each folder/view manually. It was painful.[/quote]
You can see how it would confuse a newbie to sort the list in the main window, and then open up an indivdual message and see that it is sorted differently.
Yeah, absolutely -- and the view modes aren't immediately obvious/transparent for those who weren't betting testing them while they were being developed. Unless you're there for the feature announcement, it's easy to miss the feature when there are as many as there are in TB!
So that's where the real users are, eh? I'll have to check out the list. But I don't want to get that heavily involved yet. I'm already on too many lists as it is. Is there a webpage where you can search the archives of the discussion list? As for templates, I haven't got into them too much besides some simple tweaking of the general reply, new message, etc. templates.
Yeah, it's a fairly high-volume list, but I'll tell you what--there are few, if any, questions that go unanswered there. The archives are here:
http://[email protected]/Another cool thing, related to the templates, "cookie" text -- you can specify an external file or copy/paste into the cookie field in your account settings -- using the cookie in your signature %cookie% will print a random line from that file! So you can have a random quote in your message. Very cool.
So, I'm curious, what do you use for email now? Webmail? Gmail? For someone who seems to have spent so much time with something like the Bat, I find it surprising that you'd move away to something else.
I lost all my TB data/settings -- everything -- with my hard drive and just haven't had the time or energy to set it up again to where I'm 'happy'. Installation is easy, but getting all the templates and everything else the way I want them, filters, etc. -- lot of work. Talking about it though has got me thinking mourning time might be over, time to pick it up again. I certainly didn't 'move away', I was pushed away
There's nothing out there with a better featureset. Not that I've seen, anyway. Presently I'm using gmail and Opera's built in client. Weak