There are a couple of features I'd really like to have which I might add myself if you were just a bit stronger in C and Gnome programming. (I'm a Perl CGI programmer.) Not that I expect that there's anybody out there just looking for a new feature idea to add, but if either of these sounds very useful to anyone ...
The most useful of the two would be to be able to edit messages in the Inbox or other folders in order to add a note to them, much like you can do in the Draftbox folder. For example my customers' order forms arrive via email. It would be quite handy to be able to open the message in an edit window like you can in Draftbox and add a little note saying "do not process until Friday" or whatever.
Less generally useful, but maybe quite handy for some people, would be to add a "pipe to" menu option to pipe an email to an external program, similar to *indow's "Send To" menu for files. I'm thinking of right clicking on an incoming email and selecting "Pipe To - process_order.pl". The UI for this could be simplified by doing what *indows does, having a "pipe_to" directory and anything in that directory shows up as a "pipe to" option. Simply symlinking process_order.pl into that directory would add it as an option to Balsa.
One could of course view source, copy, paste into and external editor, then pipe. It'd be nice to be able to save clicks though. Currently I'm doing this by forwarding to a local address which then pipes it to the program based on a procmail rule. -- Ray B. Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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