Hi Folks,
Here's my list of features I need, basically a few additions to what Ted
mentioned:
Ted Leung wrote:
Here are the actions that I actually did:
* view messages by thread
* delete a message
* 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"
In the filing vein:
Although I've experimented with dozens of filing strategies over the
years, these days I just go with one big inbox and a filed directory
(filed == Done). I don't know if I can strictly say I *need* it to
dogfood (I'm game to try Travis' parcel), but I'd like to be able to
convince Chandler to
- read my existing IMAP inbox, treat messages there as NOW
- move messages marked LATER to a LATER IMAP box
- scan that LATER mailbox to see if I triaged through a non-Chandler
mail client
- similarly, move DONE messages to my filed box
- if an email Chandler knows about used to be in one of these mailboxes
but isn't anymore, it puts the message in the trash
These steps don't actually seem terribly difficult to implement, but of
course if everybody has slight variations (that don't reduce to details
like different names of the relevant mailboxes), we can't hope to
provide infinite flexibility in the beta timeframe.
As an aside, I currently create tasks by emailing them to myself, but
I'm hoping Chandler + sharing will give me a similarly robust
cross-computer task management setup, so I don't think I really need (or
want) Chandler to take non-email items I'm triaging and stick them in my
email.
* 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.
I'd add to this that I really use quote handling a lot, both in reading
messages, and composing them. This seems non-trivial to implement in
wx. I suppose I can live without it, but it would really subtract from
my experience. It's painful enough on the Mac where alt e, w doesn't
make Thunderbird rewrap quotes, I have to use the mouse. My fingers
still miss good old alt-q from emacs.
Things I don't do:
* compose HTML mail
I neither compose nor read HTML mail. I hate HTML mail. If we support
rendering of HTML mail, I want the ability to disable it like I can in
Thunderbird. ;)
Finally, generally speaking, I think Thunderbird's keyboard shortcuts
are inadequate, so I actually think there's a fairly low bar to meet for
those of us who've regretfully left Mutt/Pine behind and labor our
wrists in Thunderbird land.
Sincerely,
Jeffrey
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