On Jul 14, 2006, at 6:37 PM, Ted Leung wrote:
On Jul 14, 2006, at 3:08 PM, Katie Capps Parlante wrote:I think we're all in agreement about the long run -- email is very important to the full vision of Chandler.Yes, yes, yes. And RSS too, but don't get me started on that...
following Ted's lead I'll also defer the majority of my info-viewing feature list ...
The short run is the harder problem.The question I'm asking: Is there a bare bones feature set that would allow early adopters to use Chandler as an email client? What is that feature set?Ok, so after yesterday's discussion, I started to think about exactly what the feature set would be for me. When I "came in" this morning, I watched all the operations that I did as I processed all three of my IMAP accounts.Here are the actions that I actually did: * view messages by thread * delete a message
yes and yes
* select messages and use Mail Act-On! to execute an applescript that examines each message and files it correctly by looking at combinations of the mail headers - call this "filing"
I do this by using rules - currently have ~120 rules that move things around
* click on a URL embedded in a browser* mark some read messages as unread for later re-processing - give me a triage based workflow for this * reply to messages, including editing the to/cc lines because our default list reply to is wrong, i did work on several replies simultaneously.* send new e-mail messages (to remembered previous recipients)
all yes
That's it.There are a few more actions which I do less frequently, which I didn't do this morning:* paste text from the clipboard into a composition/reply window
also done by me frequently
* verify/decrypt a PGP signed/encrypted message. Bear and Heikki, I blame you... - consider this one very optional
:) - I would gladly use Mail.app to compose my PGP mail for the testing phase
* search for a particular message
I do this *a lot* - because of the search ability in Mail.app I now keep most of my messages in large folders whereas before I would have had sub-folders for everyone who has sent me mail from OSAF.
* look at the raw source of a message - as a way of doing an antiphishing check before deleting
same
* work offline
I don't do this at all - I tend to view mail as a interrupt-driven process when I'm online :)
* download an attachment
my mail server does this for me.
* attach a file via a standard file dialog (I don't do drag and drop attachments)
same here
Well, now you have one person's list...
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