Gervase Markham wrote:
>
> >> Classifying messages by arbitrary rules is a function of filters
> >
> > Folters must have an action. "Mark it with label green" is such an action.
>
> So it "give it Low priority". Your point?
>
>
> >> As I understand it, Labels allow you to say "All mail from X becomes
> >> labelled Y (and goes green)" instead of what can currently be done,
> >> which is "All mail from X becomes priority Y (and goes red)". I am
> >> trying to have the advantage of one over the other explained.
> >
> >
> > In the latter case, I am changing a property of the message as the
> > sender sent it, right? What, if I want to still see the Priority as the
> > sender sent it?
>
> As mpt says, the Priority it arrives with is what the sender thinks its
> priority should be to you. If that isn't your priority, then you change it.
>
> > What about the average user, who doesn't like "senders being able to
> > make messages red in their INBOX" (using the priority), and who don't
> > know how to use filters to undo it?
>
> How does the labels feature solve this problem? By removing the colour
> hint from the Priority? Yes, the problem goes away if you break the
> feature. So? :-)
>
> Gerv
One point. Priority is there for a purpose. Using it as a filing
system would be much like using the ALT attribute as a tooltip. It
would be a hack and nothing but a hack. Mozilla will either have this
feature or not, there's no point in pretending that some other feature
does this job already.
I can find all sorts of uses for labelling. In fact, I have several
subfolders that would become completely useless if I tried to subdivide
within them the way I *really* want to. Labelling would make it much
easier to work with some of my folders that have 1000+ (or 2000+ for
that matter) messages in them. And, note, I want to be able to
subdivide without changing the contents of the message. Priority is
part of the contents - especially as relates to work emails.
If my boss sends me an email as high priority, I don't want to change it
- but I want to be able to group all the emails from my boss (work and
home accounts) as one. Yes, I could create a folder just for my bosses
emails, but if I start doing that, as I said, my mail folders would
quickly become unmanagable.
About the only objection I had to the document specified at the
beginning of this thread was that the menu items would be toggles, in a
way (i.e., choosing an already selected label would turn off labelling
for that message). It would make more sense to have a "None" menu item,
or similar.
As for the color hint of Priority, who says that has to go away?
There's nothing here that stops the Priority column from having it's own
coloring separate from the rest of the header info.
Justin H.
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