ms said:
Mike:
I have a few comments on Pop Tray:
If I select a message to delete, it takes a long time to be deleted,
compared to Popcorn.
When I open a message, the text size is tiny (for my eyes), see no way
to change it.
It never bothered me, but ISWYM
It is a mail checker, not a mail client, so it needs an associated
mail program. It can respond to a message, but not new mail. Popcorn
can compose a new mail message by itself.
Bully for Popcorn; I find poptray means I often don't open my mail client,
as it's all spam, and deleted without starting an email prog. Or letting it
on my puter.
It has a button to start the email prog when you've cleared the spam.
Pop Tray does put spam into it's black list easily.
Mailwasher style!
In Popcorn, I have to copy the spam username, browse to my ISP spam site
and paste the> name into a black list.
Yuck
The rules are much more powerful and are easily set up under the rules tab
Here's a copy of my old rules.ini file
[Options]
NumRules=8
[Rule1]
Name=japanese2
Enabled=1
New=0
Account=0
Operator=0
RowCount=1
Area=Subject
Func=Reg Expr
Text="[Á¸ÜÍ휳ê½^ðÈÇ̉©çµÆ‡ª¦ÄµÜ¢ÄàåäÅ]"
Not=0
Wav=
Delete=0
Ignore=0
EXE=
Important=0
Spam=1
Protect=0
Log=0
TrayColor=-1
[Rule2]
Name=japanese
Enabled=1
New=0
Account=0
Operator=0
RowCount=1
Area=From
Func=Reg Expr
Text="[Á¸ÜÍ휳ê½^ðÈÇ̉©çµÆ‡ª¦ÄµÜ¢ÄàåäÅ]"
Not=0
Wav=
Delete=0
Ignore=0
EXE=
Important=0
Spam=1
Protect=0
Log=0
TrayColor=-1
[Rule3]
Name=No From Address
Enabled=1
New=0
Account=0
Operator=0
RowCount=1
Area=From
Func=Reg Expr
Text="."
Not=1
Wav=
Delete=0
Ignore=0
EXE=
Important=0
Spam=1
Protect=0
Log=1
TrayColor=-1
Area2=To
Func2=Contains
Text2=
Not2=0
[Rule4]
Name=No Subject
Enabled=1
New=0
Account=0
Operator=0
RowCount=1
Area=Subject
Func=Reg Expr
Text="."
Not=1
Wav=
Delete=0
Ignore=0
EXE=
Important=0
Spam=1
Protect=0
Log=1
TrayColor=-1
[Rule5]
Name=multi address
Enabled=1
New=0
Account=0
Operator=0
RowCount=1
Area=To
Func=Reg Expr
Text=(.*@btinternet.com,*){2,}
Not=0
Wav=
Delete=0
Ignore=0
EXE=
Important=0
Spam=1
Protect=0
Log=0
TrayColor=-1
[Rule6]
Name=not to me
Enabled=1
New=0
Account=0
Operator=0
RowCount=2
Area=To
Func=Contains
[email protected]
Not=1
Wav=
Delete=0
Ignore=0
EXE=
Important=0
Spam=1
Protect=0
Log=1
TrayColor=-1
Area2=To
Func2=Reg Expr
Text2=(.*@btinternet.com,*){2,}
Not2=0
[Rule7]
Name=cc
Enabled=1
New=0
Account=0
Operator=0
RowCount=1
Area=CC
Func=Contains
[email protected]
Not=0
Wav=
Delete=0
Ignore=0
EXE=
Important=0
Spam=1
Protect=0
Log=1
TrayColor=-1
[Rule8]
Name=multiaddress 2
Enabled=0
New=0
Account=0
Operator=0
RowCount=1
Area=To
Func=Reg Expr
Text=(?is)([@].*){2,}
Not=0
Wav=
Delete=0
Ignore=0
EXE=
Important=0
Spam=1
Protect=0
Log=1
TrayColor=-1
If you copy this text into your rules.ini file (or you may have to create
it, on a new installation, you may be able to see how they work and perhaps
adapt them. (I had help creating some of them, and it's a long time ago, so
don't expect too much wisdom from me!)
But I've inserted them from my archived progs into my freshly reinstalled
poptray, which I'll probably keep, as it's handy even if I'm not getting
spam, to clean up my mailbox - I don't delete mail off the server when I
fetch it. It's much quicker than using my isp's mail facility.
Incidentally, I don't know why you find it slow, I've just cleaned out my
mailboxes in batches of 15 - 20, and each batch only took a few seconds.
HTH
mike
