On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 21:47:30 +0200 (Romance Daylight Time) Vadim Zeitlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 12:28:52 -0600 (Mountain Daylight Time) Ed Vazquez <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > EV> 1 - Be able to configure, based on Identity, where the cursor > EV> and signature are placed in forwards and replies. > > This is currently impossible to do for the identities (although I was > actually surprized to discover this -- it's a bug), but you can do it for > different folders, of course. In fact, I have to admit that adding > identities to Mahogany wasn't the greatest idea anyhow, they conflict with > per-folder setting and finally I don't think they're useful at all. If you > filter your incoming mail in different folders it is much simpler and, IMO, > more natural to set different options for different folders. > > In particular, to do what you want, simply change the default reply > template using the button at the bottom of the compose page of the folder > properties dialog. Well, that only "sort-of" works. I can indeed configure per-folder settings and even set up the different sequence of cursor to signature to quoted-text, but for some reason, when I actually reply and/or forward and just start typing, the cursor and sometimes the signature text "jump" to the bottom of the message and what I'm typing runs off the end of the very last line. So, if I have configured: $CURSOR $SIGNATURE On $(ORIGINAL:DATE) $SENDER wrote: $QUOTE What I get is: On $(ORIGINAL:DATE) $SENDER wrote: $QUOTE $SIGNATURE$CURSOR > > EV> 2 - Threading, threading, threading... > > This is a huge problem and with no solution in sight simply because > "fixing" this requires incomparably more time than I have. Using external > editor (as I do...) helps a lot as at least it doesn't freeze while you're > typing the message... That's not a bad idea, if I could get an external editor configured in Win32 M. I have tried, with varying degrees of success (weird sig placement, insertion of message text in the middle of a reply/forward, other oddities ad hoc. I have tried ViM, UltraEdit, Notepad, SciTE, Crimson and others, all with the same sort of behavior. > > EV> 3 - Some way of making the default preview pane viewer "Plain > EV> Text" and have it deal with stripping out formatting. I know > EV> that the different "view" settings are supposed to handle this, > EV> but for whatever reason, I get a fairly even mix of text/plain, > EV> text/html and text/rich-text e-mails > > I think you should use the HTML viewer, it will show 2/3 of your email as > well as possible (in Mahogany) and the remaining (rich-text) ones should > still be readable. There is no support for text/enriched in Mahogany yet > but I did open a bug about it some (long) time ago. It's true that it's not > very high priority to me as I don't get many such messages... Well, you might not, and I consider you lucky in that regard. But in my unfortunately very Microsoftish world (and I suspect in other's worlds as well) it is all too common. Add to that a company mandate to "overcommunicate" and I can see upwards of 1000 messages a day that I have to at least glance at (informational). Which means that if I set "HTML" then not only do I have to deal with seeing all the incoming spam in it's full-color glory, but I have to use alternate means for upwards of 300 messages. Not to mention the annoyance of folks who pick 6 point type (because they work in X-Ray and have 35 inch radiographic monitors and 6 point look fine to them...), funky script, fonts that I don't have loaded (nothing like a page of "boxes" where MS couldn't find a font), flashing colors, etc. > > EV> 5 - Some way to modify the folder pane so that I can put my active > EV> server accounts at the top of the list. > > You can now (post 0.66) reorder folders in the tree by drag and drop in a > limited way (only works for siblings). Well, yes. Except per another post that I made a bit back (don't remember the title and the Sourceforge archive page is less than useless) ISTR that compiling is broken and a snapshot is on hold due to some other bugs. > > EV> 6 - Some way to add the standard priority "flags" to the headers > > I have personally never found much use for priority header (as well as > DSN) but I think that adding either/both should be quite simple as cclient > supports this. Please open a bug in the bugzilla if there is nothing about > it there yet. > I tried a bugzilla search, but it was less than useful (returned things like "This should be a priority" for "priority header"). Would this be a bug or a feature request, seeing as M doesn't actually have any method of doing this now? And I agree, I don't particularly like priority headers, I think they are overused and misused. But, certain career significiant people where I work use them to determine whether they even read your e-mail, so they become neccessary. > > To summarize, only item (2) is a real show stopper. The rest are either > not problems at all or could be fixed/worked around relatively simply IMHO. > > Regards, > VZ > Not sure I agree that nothing but #2 is a show stopper. All seem to be important (at least to me) from a useability perspective. 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