Hi Scott,
Many thanks for the detailed feature requests! Dropbox attachments: Indeed, some space is wasted by sending huge attachments to another persons inbox. However, I think that this is great solution for geeks or technical savvy people, but maybe less understandable for non-technical email users. Picasa, MobileMe Galleries (I know it's going away), Flickr, even Skich kind of offer a similar service and I am not sure if it makes sense to compete in this area. Tip: Why not integrate your already existing app with Mailplane? Check out this article: Use AppleScript to compose the messages: http://mailplaneapp.com/howto/entry/compose_email_using_applescript/ Delete attachments: Currently, IMAP is the only solution. UI Modifications: Agreed, it would make sense to optimize the user experience. Account switching: Mailplane 3.0 will improve it :) MailMarklets: Good idea. Have you tried the 'Quick Links' Gmail lab feature? It allows you to store searches/conversations etc. in the sidebar. Thanks again for your feedback. Ruben http://mailplaneapp.com http://repliesapp.com > > I have a few humble feature requests... > > > > > The first one, I have had at the top of my ideas for years now, but with the > implementation of DropBox, things just a lot easier. > > > I hate putting raw files into email messages, Email was not designed for file > transport!, aside from some small images here and there/ Certainly not an > entire family vacation of jpg images. People will not do different until the > default is different.(Yes, I am talking to you in-lawys who just sent me 50 > jpg images from Belgium which are a pain in the rear to remove from IMAP in > gmail!) > > > > > > * As a side note, how about a delete images from IMAP message in MailPlane > > so I don't have to keep a working copy of Mail.app or Thunderbird sucking > > up mailbox files all over the place? > > > What I have done, is wrote an app, you drop files(s) on it. More than one > file, they and they are zipped; only one file and it is left alone. The > file(s) are then copied from the current location to > ~/Dropbox/Public/yyyy.mm.dd-random-filename.ext (one way pseudo secure) and > then passed off to[bit.lyfor url shortening. Finally, > the](http://bit.ly)[bit.ly url is shoved onto the clipboard, growl wakes up > and says hello with a song, and you are ready to paste those files anywhere. > Logs of source files and url's are saved. I think the clipboard is restored > post paste so your state is just how you left it. It has been a while since > I looked at it, I just use it.](http://bit.ly) > > > Here is an example I just made with all keystrokes: http://bit.ly/qIXrk4 > > > Maybe MailPlane could do the same. Any time an image is attached, or group > thereof, some options are given. If they are all jpg images, ask the user, > would you like to put these into a slide show within DropBox? If they are > random files and images, repeat the above process more or less, and instead > of putting the images into the email, drop the link into the email. > > > I am sitting on 15+ years of emails, in one way or another using a method to > send files that did not attach. I currently use 7% of my storage. Millions > of emails total. And since I started the DropBox method, for which I used an > alternate server of my own in the past and ssh/rsync, all links in all emails > are still working and valid. > > > Next idea, start modifying the MailPlane UI. More and more people are using > laptops having less and less vertical space compared to a desktop. The > entire gmail logo and search bar with button could be something that is > toggle-able on and off. A link in the black bar at the top could be used to > toggle it's visibility. It could also be a keyboard command. It is pretty > simple, one div setting the visibility to false and you are there. Since I > can't get user scripts to work, I can't make the toggle, so I am stuck with > just having it off all the time, which I could not work with. > > > > > > Here is a quick and dirty mock up of what I would like to see. If I had > > user script access, I think I may be able to pull off part of it. > > http://bit.ly/pbEkz5( <- Full size version located at url ) > > > > > > > > > In that same area, there could be a select menu that lists our accounts, then > there would be no need at all for the left/right account toggle panel or the > floater panel. Those could go away and be controlled entirely by simple > javascript. The "manage this domain" link if it is a google apps for domains > account would have to be moved to the black bar as well, though that appears > to also be no more than a small div. > > > Finally, with still more room in the black bar, there could be a place for > "MailMarklets™" ( Yup, awaiting royalties for that immediately! ). When a > search is done the user can copy the MailPlane search, which is nothing more > than a url with a mailplane:// protocol handler. I may want to find all > emails Isent, within adate range, to a certainrecipient,labeleda certain way, > and I may do that often. I could do the search. select a menu of "make a > MailMarklet", and it would show up as an item in a select menu in the black > bar. Some MailMarklet manager would be needed I suspect, even if it were > hidden away in the prefs. > > > I like MailPlane. I hope that some of these ideas are thought to be good > enough that others will see the value in how they could make MailPlane even > better. Maybe getting some form of auto GreaseMonkey ala Chrome working > would be a start, and Safari Extensions, as a ton of these suggestions could > be user driven. Heck, there could be an entire class of users who create one > click mods that make MailPlane do all sorts of things, really only left to > imagination as long as there is secure means to inject JS into the app UI. > > > Thanks for listening. > -- > Scott > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "mailplaneapp" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/mailplaneapp?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mailplaneapp" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mailplaneapp?hl=en.
