FWIW, I also use Thunderbird at home to check 5 or 6 different low-volume accounts. The separate inboxes is extremely annoying to me, and the issue of having to separately click Get Mail for each of the accounts is also frustrating. I still use it though, because 1) I can create filters to put the messages where I want (which I would also have to do in Outlook or OE, it just works opposite) and 2) there is an easily installed extension called "Get All Mails" or something like that which puts in another button to check all accounts simultaneously.
I think a large part of the frustration is simply that it isn't what we are used to. For instance, the email client included with Opera has a very unique way of handling email. Instead of having an inbox, you can create and/or customize views of all your email data. One view might be "all received email", another "all unread email", another "all email addressed to x". It gets more interesting with things like "all email with attachments" or "all email with attachments to x using x account", etc. I found this concept to be very handy. However, there were some useability issues that I didn't like because it wasn't what I was used to (I don't remember, but I think it had something to do with having multiple accounts, and I'm not a big fan of the Opera web browser) and so I moved on to something else. I used The Bat! A couple years ago and I SEEM to remember it could do something similar to those views, but I'm not sure about that. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Dodd Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 11:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] OT: The Bat! > I guess what I am saying is, what is so bad about an inbox per > POP/IMAP account? Oh, the latest version supports MAPI, too. Per se, nothing at all - but I would venture that most people don't have to deal with the volume of messages you do. ;) Personally, I prefer to handle mail the way Outlook, OE, Eudora and, well, practically every other mail client behaves - all messages to all mailboxes are treated as a single entity to which rules can be applied. I set up some rules - messages from mailing lists go to relevant folders, messages from certain people go to relevant folders unless certain escape conditions are met. But I want all messages to go into one folder, the inbox, unless otherwise treated by a rule, and I want to be able to hit one send-and-receive button to get all my messages. That's just the way I prefer to work, because I generally don't care what mail address an e-mail was sent to me on - the sender and the content are far more important. Other users, yourself included, feel differently, and that's fine; I don't think it would be impossible to work into Thunderbird's architecture a facility that allowed you to choose, when adding a new mail account, whether the mail address being added would be added to the shared inbox, or would be created with its own inbox. That would keep everyone happy, IMO, while adding another layer of configurability to Thunderbird's already excellent featureset. Regards, Simon > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles > Frolick > Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 4:50 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] OT: The Bat! > > I don't look at it as an issue since, if I check mail from multiple > mailboxes, even if they are all aliases to the checked mailbox, I > still use rules to sort them all to other folders in the account. It > does show all configured accounts > (mailboxes) in the same tree, it's not like you have to log out then > back in. There is no way I would want the upwards of 500 daily emails > I get all going straight to the Inbox, they need to find their proper > home so I can deal with them quickly and with priority. > > I guess what I am saying is, what is so bad about an inbox per > POP/IMAP account? Oh, the latest version supports MAPI, too. > > Thanks, > Chuck Frolick > ArgoLink.net > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Dodd > Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 4:36 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] OT: The Bat! > > > It does create separate mailboxes for each account, however it does > > look like you can use rules to sort them into the other inboxes. > > That's pretty much what users MozillaZine suggested, but to my mind, > that's a bodge to cover up a fundamental issue with the way the client > handles mail. It's trying to make it do something it isn't designed to > do, and it's the design that needs addressing, IMO. > > Regards, > Simon > > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
