> One point. Priority is there for a purpose.
Absolutely. That purpose is assigning priorities to your messages. And
that's basically what the labels feature will do.
> Using it as a filing
> system would be much like using the ALT attribute as a tooltip.
Labels are not a filing system. Your IMAP folders are a filing system.
> 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.
Why? If our search UI doesn't easy allow searching a subset of folders,
we should fix the search UI, not force people to group messages in the
same folder just to be able to search them easily.
Gerv
