Hi Kee,
On 26 May 2016, at 23:43, Kee Hinckley wrote:
First of all, I just want to say that Benny is amazing. I wrote [one
of the first multimedia email applications on
Unix](https://books.google.com/books?id=wBIEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA37&lpg=PA37&dq=alfalfa+poste&source=bl&ots=qTvRV7NFjj&sig=wjLRY1k1VdeBrumoNL-9tlsUuiA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjI0s--qvnMAhUU9GMKHcNRD5oQ6AEILjAD#v=onepage&q=alfalfa%20poste&f=false)
a long time ago, and for many years I've considered doing a more
modern one. MailMate makes that moot. It's an amazing application, and
with the new HTML features coming down the road, it's even more so.
Secondly, I want to say that I've put my money where my mouth is, and
I'd like to encourage everyone else to do the same. I **live** in
email, and I'm sure many of you do. Benny is making his living doing a
really hard thing; writing an application that competes with something
that's available for free. MailMate will always be a niche application
targeted at hardcore mail users, and we need to support that. When
MailMate started supporting the features I needed to use it at work I
bought several extra licenses I didn't need. Because I **need** this
application, and I need Benny to be able to make a good living
supporting it. It was wonderful that I was able to hack MailMate to
work with HTML mail before. It's even _more_ wonderful that I don't
have to anymore. If you find MailMate invaluable for your work—and I
know many of you do—please contribute more.
Thirdly, I want to put out a bounty for the one feature I'm missing.
I'll pitch in an additional $100 when MailMate supports sorting
threaded messages sorted by the most recent item in the thread.
It already does this when sorting by Date fields with "Organize by
Thread"
enabled. What am I missing?
Ben
It's the one thing missing for me to use sorting by threads in my
inbox. Right now I use a very nice three pane solution someone
provided (and it's _amazing_ that MailMate can be extended that way),
that puts a separate "sort by subject" pane to one side, and I leave
my inbox simply sorted by date, without grouping. That's almost what I
want, but not quite. I'd like to have my inbox display threads with
the most recent messages first, so that if someone replies to
something three weeks ago (and they do a lot), it doesn't get lost in
my 4000 message Inbox. If you feel similarly, please pledge your
support. And I encourage Benny to set up a way for people to vote for
feature with their wallet. This is an amazing product, and I can't
work without it.
Thank you Benny._______________________________________________
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