"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
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On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:51:45 GMT, JoeSpareBedroom penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
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On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:03:22 GMT, JoeSpareBedroom penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:




Accidental deletion of what? Email messages?


Yes, although The Bat! has an available NNTP add-on, it just isn't a
news reader and I wouldn't recommend it as such....

Mail... for example, you can set the program to automatically delete
all mail over X days old, but the parked messages will not be deleted.
Messages can be parked and unparked manually or automatically, based
on highly configurable filters.


If I delete email from OE's inbox, it lands in the Deleted folder. Now,
there are two ways that folder can be emptied:

1) I set the "Delete on exit" option to do its thing. This can't be done
by
accident unless you're blind or illiterate.

2) I use 3 specific keystrokes to do it manually. If this happens, it's
because I wanted it to happen.

Neither is the fault of the program.


Give you an example....

Instead of fighting with one inbox....

if you sent me an email it would put the message into the folder
"Personal Correspondence" and sub-folder JoeSpareBedroom.

I have the option of making sure I save the item... say the word
"boat" is there. I could park the message, optionally play a sound,
and/or change the color or font.

If you sent it to my public boating email address, it would be saved
under that personna.... perhaps based on previous conditions it could
be archived in another personna.


Outlook Express can do all this, except (AFAIK) customizing sound for
certain emails.



It might even post itself to my
calendar for future action. Or certain information found in header or
body might cause the previously parked message to become of lesser
importance and become unparked.... or subject to automatic deletion at
the next purge cycle.


OE can't do this, because it's not designed for scheduling.