On 24 Jul 2002, it is alleged that Sebastian Spaeth sauntered in to netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news and loudly proclaimed:
> Gabriel Radic schrieb: >> God knows I tried to use it, but I finally came to the conclusion that >> this email client sucks too. > > Before judging too fast, you should rather take a second look at the > mail client... > >> 1. More than one email address/alias per account. All addresses should >> appear in the FROM list of a new email message. > > You can create as many dummy mail accounts as you want right now, all > with different mail addresses. All addresses *will* appear in the FROM > list of a new email message. If you don't like the additional accounts > you can even delete them by editing a simple textfile and keep the > identities. Agreed, but it's a bit of a kludge in comparison to what he's suggesting. Hmm . . . didn't someone once before say that Moz isn't the spammer's best friend? ;-) >> 2. I should be able to choose Local Folders as the collector for all >> incoming/outgoing email of an account so that account will not be >> displayed in the folder pane. > > Set up filters which forward your incoming mail into the local INBOX > folder. This way you'll never have to expand all the folders for all > your accounts. Agreed, but he seems to want OE's behaviour. OE assumes you use POP and that you want all messages from multiple POP accounts dumped into the same place. That was one thing I absolutely loathed about OE (well, that an it's habit of auto-executing certain attachments), but a lot of people seem either to like it or to be habituated to it. >> 3. Have specific icons for the Mail&News window and for Message >> windows. > > Download a recent nightly build, and look at the icons :-) Or just download the iconpack; I think it's available at http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/ >> 4. Have a Forwarded status for messages, not just New, Read and >> Replied. Cumulative statuses is even better, >> e.g. Forwarded [ 7/15/2002 6:26 PM ] to [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], >> Replied [ 7/15/2002 6:26 PM ] to to [EMAIL PROTECTED], >> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I don't really know what you mean with this, you can easily see when the > forwarded message arrived, and when forwarding inline you can also see > when the original message arrived. Do you need more? That's OK; I don't even get what he means about 'Forwarded' not being there under the status column. >> 5. Fix those "New message here" folder markers so they work as expected >> with filtered mail. > > Don't use them, can't judge this one, you may be right Nor do I, but the gripe seems to be that a) filtring is done client-side; b) because filtring is done client-side and after mail is downloaded, the Inbox marker appears even tho' the message has been filtred elsewhere. >> 6. Add a Rewrap option. > > Wrapping works just fine for me, I don't know what you mean by this. Is > your wrapping broken? If you want the classical "break at char 72" > wrapping you can try to turn format flowed off > (user_pref("mailnews.display.disable_format_flowed_support", true);) http://jump.to/oe-quotefix -- Oh, sorry; that's for OE, so you can fix its quote-mangling, sig-delimiter�breaking behaviour. :-D >> 7. More stuff... > > ? Don'know. There's always 'more stuff', isn't there? >> I am considering switching back to OE. > > Feel free to do so, unless you plan to send me e-mails :-P Well, since you already /are/ using OE for NG messages, let me repeat the URL I gave above: http://jump.to/oe-quotefix. You may also have to ignore its tendency to want you to top-quote; save for the Mac groups, bottom- posting (or inter-posting) is preferred on these NGs. One other thing: the n.p.m.* groups are actually for developer discussion; the n.m.u.* groups listed below are for user questions. n.p.m.mstone is for bitching. ;-) :-D /b. > Sebastian -- Mozilla end-user questions should be directed to: snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.general snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.win32 snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.mac snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.unix Note that you need to have SSL enabled and the port set to 563.
