Many of the missing features you speak of are known filed bugs.
Hopefully they should get resolved soon. Let me see if I can give you
some bug links
Jimmie Houchin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I use Netscape 4.7x for email at work on a Win95 PC.
> Previously I used the same at home on Linux.
>
> I have recently tried Evolution.
> Somethings nice, some so so.
>
> It misses some features I had in Netscape.
>
> I thought I would try Mozilla Mail.
>
> It too is missing some features that are available in NS 4.7x.
>
>
> When I had read all the mail I was going to read and was ready to mark
> messages read in all my groups. I could select multiple mailboxes and
> mark all messages read. It can be tedious to go to each mailbox
> individually to mark all messages read in the mailboxes you want to
> mark, especially with close to a 100 mailboxes. Being able to
> shift-click contigious boxes or ctrl-click individual boxes would be nice.
>
> In Mozilla it seems I can't select multiple mailboxes for any purpose.
>
> I've selected multiple mailboxes either for marking read and also for
> deleting (the mailboxes).
>
> I miss this feature.
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86056
>
> Also in NS you can change the order of the columns in the message pane.
> It seems that this is not available either.
Recently I read someone on one of the newsgroups saying that this
feature is coming real soon. Found the followng bug.
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94402
but I think it should be marked a dup of
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9656
> In NS on Windows I can add a header for filtering. This is nice for
> filtering some mailing lists. In Evolution they have a filter option for
> mailing lists.
I guess you're talking about filtering on stuff like List-ID, etc. Found
a couple of bugs filed for this
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16904
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16913
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16902
- Pratik.
