The Bat!'s support of IMAP isn't all that great, unfortunately (at
least when I tried it a few months ago). I've tried it, Mulberry,
Netscape, Outlook Express, Eudora, Calypso, and a few others whose
names I can't remember. None of them offer the feature I'm interested
in (configurable auto archiving of folders).
On another note, the only MUA I've found that supports the IMAP
servers my ISPs use and supports filtering into IMAP folders is
Netscape. I don't think Netscape is a great MUA, but it's the only
the that does everything. Mulberry looked promising, but it ran into
errors just trying to read my inbox (plus it was really slow). I don't
know if this is an issue with the IMAP server implementation (Imail)
or what, but both Netscape and OE can open the inbox okay. OE is okay
if you have server-side filtering (which I do now).
Jen
----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin J. Menard, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Jen-Mei Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Nuno Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Cillian Sharkey
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 10:22 AM
Subject: Re[2]: Archiving mailboxes
> Hey Jen-Mei,
>
>
> Sunday, May 27, 2001, 11:10:07 PM, you wrote:
>
> JMW> That doesn't really help, unfortunately. The idea is that on a
> JMW> particular client, someone might want to archive all messages
older
> JMW> than 30 days to an identical folder (same place in tree, etc.)
> JMW> locally. I don't know of any MUA that does this, but if
someone can
> JMW> think of one, I'd love to hear it!
>
> JMW> Thanks!
>
> The Bat! by RIT Labs has an extensive set of features. Maybe it'll
even sync
> the IMAP folders automagically (dunno, haven't tried that yet), but
you could
> always email the author, who's quick to respond. Anyway, with The
Bat! you can
> filter messages based on headers (which is typical), but also on
emails that are
> are older than x number of day, less than x number of days, larger
than x KB,
> less than x KB, whether or not the user is in your address book,
whether or not
> it has attachments, the priority of the email, and many others.
Hell, even
> whether or not the screen saver is on (dunno why :-P)
>
> Check it out at www.ritlabs.com . I'm usually not one to plug
software, but
> I've found this to be the most full-featured security-minded MUA at
a nice
> educational price :)
>
> --
> Kevin
>
>
