On 2/22/06 at 6:39 PM, Dave Nathanson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:
>Pop up menu in outgoing messages to move message to a folder (even before
>sending).
First I'll agree with this emphatically. YES! Please - some way to file
outgoing mail before it's sent would be *huge*. I've had a problem with
that ever since I left Emailer.
>Out Tray bolded when unsent drafts are in there.
This is the one I'm going to disagree with. I generally leave drafts
around for a while, and it's useful for me to know when there's real
outgoing mail in my Out Tray. If it bolded whenever there were drafts,
mine would be bolded 100% of the time, and that ceases to be useful
information.
However, maybe a Drafts tray...
>When doing a (command f) Find; Let pop up menu contain ALL folder names,
>not just a choice of
>current folder | entire mail db | selected messages.
Agreed; having to navigate to somewhere to say "here" is not as simple
as saying "there" from wherever I am.
I'd also like to see that dialog remember some of my criteria better. I
generally search by 2 criteria, and I'd like to have it remember both of
them rather than only giving me one to start.
>Option to use real MBox format instead of Powermail db. Why? I feel that
>this might be faster downloading performance, and also attachments would
>not need to be renamed on the fly as downloaded.
With all due respect, then the feature request is for "better download
performance" and "don't rename attachments." What format they keep the
database in is irrelevant to the user. And kinda none of our business.
>When I click in the "Location" column in the "Recent Mail" window, I'd
>prefer to be taken to that folder so I can read the thread, not just to
>that email.
Do you mean you're looking for an additional optional behavior to
sorting the column when you click on Location, or do you mean you want
to entirely replace that functionality? Some of us like being able to
sort where we are.
That said, some better optional thread management might be handy.
>User control/selection of keyboard shortcuts for all menu items.
Have you looked at Outlook on XP? You might like all the keyboard
commands there.
>When I am reading a message in a folder I am able to advance to the next
>message in the list. With that message open for reading, If I click on a
>different folder I am no longer allowed to advance to the next/previous
>message as the list has been "lost". I feel that each folder should be
>it's own sequence list, and once a message is opened that regardless of
>what the mail browser shows, that I should still be allowed to read the
>"next" message in that message's folder. To take this further, if I have
>3 messages open, from 3 different folders, I should be allowed to
>progress to the "next" message in the folder for any/all 3 of these
>messages and their folders.
Personally, I'd find that very confusing. I would think that a Next/
Previous button would operate on what's currently visible; I don't want
to have to remember what folder this is *filed* in to know what Next is
going to do.
>When emptying PowerMail trash, please make a Folder in the Finder's trash
>can, and put all the attachments that PowerMail is trashing in that
>folder. You could name the folder "PowerMail Trash <date><time>" to avoid
>conflicts. This will be very helpful, as occasionally I may need to look
>in my Finder's trash can for a file that I might not have meant to delete
>just yet. That task is made all the more difficult when the trash can is
>awash with a few hundred spam gif files.
How would a folder be helpful? It would contain all the files you're
saying your Trash is full of now... those spam gif files are enclosures, too.
>Able to open (all) multiple attachments at once. Frequently I receive a
>group of photos and it the attachment area is too small to see more than
>3 at a time, when what I really want is to open them all in Preview at
>once. Like the MAC OSX Finder can open them all into Preview if you
>highlight several jpg's and double-click, Try it! That's handy!
Hm. Sarcasm. Nice. Engenders sympathetic feelings for your plight.
Have you tried selecting one enclosure (to put the focus in the
enclosures, not the message) and typing command-a? Then double-click...
>Ability to show more attachments at once, perhaps by making multiple
>columns to display the attachment names in.
You use Windows, don't you? Seriously, you do, don't you?
>When using the filter/search box at the upper right of the Mail Browser
>window, it needs to be more responsive to user input. I get annoyed when
>I have to wait for several seconds before I can edit what I haven't
>finished typing. PowerMail should be watching when I type in there, and
>give me priority, not the search term I mistyped and am trying to fix.
>Note: this seems already better in later versions, but it has very much
>bothered me in the past.
>
>Prevent "stall" or poor application responsiveness while downloading new
>emails.
....Dave, the folks at CTM... they're not your employees. You're asking
for something (as in "please"), not demanding it (as in "quarterly review").
>It would be really wonderful to provide an easy interface to scripting
>Powermail.
PowerMail is *highly* AppleScriptable, and there are plenty of scripts
out there to try and to use as starting points to your own. CTM, like
everyone else, has limited resources (like time) to devote to features
between releases, and of all the things we'd all like to see in PM, an
entire scripting interface is a huge undertaking for minimal benefit.
>Improved interface to Find in current message. I usually do a command f,
>expecting to search the current message text. Instead the FoxTrot "Search
>Messages" dialog box pops up & even if I choose to search "selected
>messages" it does not help me find anything in the current message.
Yeah, that one gets me too.
Steve Abrahamson
Ascending Technologies
FileMaker 7 Certified Developer
http://www.asctech.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
