John Doherty via mailmate wrote (at 12:27 PM on Sunday, February 5, 2023): > On Sun 2023-02-05 12:42 PM MST -0700, <mailingl...@freron.com> wrote: > >> Yup, I never even noticed before that this option existed and can't really >> think of why I would want to do it. But different strokes, etc. Maybe >> someone has a reason that I haven't thought of. >> >> I believe the typical use case is something like this: Whenever receiving an >> email with a non-descriptive subject header such as “Help” or “Bug” (it >> happens a lot) then the recipient might want to rewrite the subject to >> something which makes it easier to identify later on. > > Having now thought a little more, I have one long-term and pretty regular > correspondent who nearly always uses terrible subjects (e.g., "question") and > has other sort of horrible email habits, like responding to existing threads > with new messages with new subjects. > > I might try this feature after all but would have to experiment some. I > wonder how things would work out if the chain of messages goes like this, > where B is me: > > A: Subject: question > B: change subject to something helpful, reply > A: replies, does not change subject > B: replies, does not change subject > A: "replies" but really sends a new message with some other unhelpful subject > B: change subject back to same as second message, reply > A: replies, does not change subject > > And so on. Might be more trouble than it's worth, but this is a correspondent > whose messages I sometimes want to find and refer to much later, like months > or more. That's when the bad email habits are even worse than in the moment. > Stuff can be pretty hard to find.
Seems like for many people, applying a descriptive tag to the discussion might be easier than force-applying a change of subject line to an extended thread. I miss Eudora's powerful abilities too, but as Benny mentioned, they become more difficult both to implement and to use an an IMAP world. _______________________________________________ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
