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General Software Discussion / Re: Eudora, Hermes and Pandora - also compared to TheBat! and other email clients
« on: July 03, 2020, 02:00 PM »
So I did a quick search looking for the differences between Thunderbird and TheBat! and stumbled upon this forrum. It looks like a major developer was leaving the BAT!Here is the thread from May.
This got me thinking about that maybe theBat has some of the utility that I have been missing in Thunderbird.
Scheduling emails: Thunderbird has the ability through an addon to send an email at a prescribed time, you can schedule an email to be sent at a certain time or send it to be a reoccurring email. It is really nice if you are working late at night and do not want to send an email at 2am. You can have it go at 8am ( during working hours). Does the Bat! have that ability? Any other email clients?
Monitoring replies: Thunderbird used to have a number of other add-ons that were extremely useful that have stopped working due to the changes touched on earlier in this thread due to TB development. There were a family of add-ons that allowed you to monitor replies. You could set the add-on to monitor IF an email had been replied to. When sending the email you would basically tell the add-on to notify you if they did not reply by a date of your choosing. Sucha simple thing, but you were able to automate a piece of follow-up. I traditionally set a monitor reply of a week. If somethig was more pressing, then I would make it shorter. Does the bat or any other email client have that?
Reminds me of something I once used TheBat! for... a commitment that was always going to be met in a week but was never actually kept led me to write a polite reminder email that TheBat! sent on my behalf every day at 11am for about 6 months.
FOAAS might have been a useful thing for the recipient. Fortunately, she had no such tool available :D-oblivion (July 03, 2020, 12:32 PM)
This got me thinking about that maybe theBat has some of the utility that I have been missing in Thunderbird.
Scheduling emails: Thunderbird has the ability through an addon to send an email at a prescribed time, you can schedule an email to be sent at a certain time or send it to be a reoccurring email. It is really nice if you are working late at night and do not want to send an email at 2am. You can have it go at 8am ( during working hours). Does the Bat! have that ability? Any other email clients?
Monitoring replies: Thunderbird used to have a number of other add-ons that were extremely useful that have stopped working due to the changes touched on earlier in this thread due to TB development. There were a family of add-ons that allowed you to monitor replies. You could set the add-on to monitor IF an email had been replied to. When sending the email you would basically tell the add-on to notify you if they did not reply by a date of your choosing. Sucha simple thing, but you were able to automate a piece of follow-up. I traditionally set a monitor reply of a week. If somethig was more pressing, then I would make it shorter. Does the bat or any other email client have that?