Dave, I second a number of your suggestions. :)
>Out Tray bolded when unsent drafts are in there. Or some visible notification on the folder for the presence of attempted- but-failed-to-send messages. >I would like to have different font sizes for reading and for printing. I >don't need email printed huge, even though Monaco 11 looks about right on >my screen. Pretty please, CTM? I know there are workarounds to get a non-paper wasting size, but this would be nice. >Better key commands for next/previous message. Command [ and command ] is >not convenient. I would prefer to have a user choice of key commands for >this (command up/down arrows for prev/next msg) and all menu items, >including "show as simple html", full html, or plain text. Related: I find myself trying to use the up and down arrow keys to scroll through a message line by line (ala web browser style) only to get shocked back to reality when it jumps to the next message. :) Full message pane scrolling with the space bar is too much at a time for me. >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! > >Ability to resize the attachments area of incoming messages. Yes and yes. >Ability to show more attachments at once, perhaps by making multiple >columns to display the attachment names in. Interesting, though I'd settle for a resizeable area. These are all asking for the same: >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. Sometimes I get an >attachment with the same name as a previously received attachment, and if >it was each saved in a folder with the text message, as GyazMail does, >there would never be a need to change the attachment name. This would >also make for faster backups. as only the changed files would need >backing up. On the other hand, it's is sort of nice to have only one >place to hunt for attachments. >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. ... >Some attachments seem to auto-decompress when collected from POP mailbox, >however, the message is still linked only to the compressed attachment. >Since there are thousands of attachments in the attachments folder, and I >don't always know the file names that were inside the compressed archive, >I sometime have to "show attachment in Finder", move the attachment to a >new folder & decompress again. Somehow this could be handled better. >Suggestions? Folder solution: - Each mail's attachments go into a folder with a name relating to the message (part of the subject line) plus date/time, preventing naming conflicts. - Powermail displays the contents of that folder in the usual spot for attachments. - Uncompressed files and their parent compressed version are all in their own folder. - "Show in Finder" opens that folder. - The main Attachments folder still holds all the files. - Finder accessible for incremental backup. - Messages with more than one attachment remain together in the folder when trashed. >Prevent "stall" or poor application responsiveness while downloading new >emails. This one bites me every day. It's so slow I don't even get a _beachball_ till a few seconds after I click a message to read, and then PowerMail decides to select another message that has, in the meantime, scrolled its way under the mouse. Is this indexing? Might it hold off till a little bit after downloading? I also notice when quickly going through messages via the arrow keys in the Mail Browser window that sometimes it will skip a message, leaving it "unread." Chris --
