Dave Nathanson on 2/22/06 said HUGE list of requests. I deleted the ones I know nothing about.
>Command-click on email folder (left side) to bring up contextual menu >including: "Mark all messages as Read". I don't know about the command-click but I would find this a useful option. > >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. >I find it annoying to have to leave the Find window to select the find >criteria by selecting a folder in the mail browser window. I'm not sure about this; because to search in a specific folder I have to "View All" first anyway so always go to the folder first, before find. >Connection Log to troubleshoot problems. When I hear the "uh oh" noise, I >only know that there was a problem sending or receiving, but I don't know >which of my 23 accounts had the problem. Furthermore, I don't know if the >problem was a bad password, bad username, server down, or what. It would >be really great to be able to turn on a connection transcript log for >troubleshooting. And it would save me a lot of time when there is a problem. I think this does exist somewhere. [a log, I mean]. My uh-oh message says which account, although the message itself may be rather obscure. >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. This has been requested but the workaround is to select your large size on the screen and print at 70%. [Under File/Page Setup]. > >Menu choice to manually activate checking for mail on any group of email >accounts. Key word being group. I would like to have several saved lists >of groups of email accounts to check. Check out Mail Scheduling and Locations and see if that meets your needs. > >More user control over scheduled mail checking. I might want to check >certain accounts more frequently during lunch, and other accounts less >often after 5pm. Schedules should also be able to trigger an applescript. Except for the schedule triggering an applescript, which I don't know about, could you not do this using the schedule and location, combined with a cron script? Not that I know anything about cron scripts.. > >The toolbar icon for Connection includes a choice to manually check any >one email account. The Connection menu proper deserves the same. It already does this. Hold it down. I think I deleted opening all attachments at once: Select them all using shift key and double click. > >Prevent "stall" or poor application responsiveness while downloading new >emails. I could go for this. > >Mail Filters: Allow criteria to match some conditions, but not others. >This is more powerful than just Match if ALL the following is true, or >ANY of the following is true. I might want to match if ANY of the 1st 3 >criteria are true, PLUS ALL of the rest of the criteria are true. If a >line item criteria is true, it would be great if there was as action for >each line; like Claris Emailer does. (if true, go to next line, if false, >go to line 7) That would be Powerful filtering. Yes, agree. >It would be really wonderful to provide an easy interface to scripting >Powermail. My first script would be a set of find/replaces that find ;t >and replace with 't (then find ;m and replace with 'm) because I mistype >that a lot (example: don;t, I;m). I would want that script to run with a >keyboard shortcut before I send a message. You can easily script powermail. At least some people can. >When viewing a HTML mail, it's VERY IMPORTANT to show a status line >indicating where a URL leads to if clicked. >I've been receiving some phishing scams that look legitimate in plaintext >view, and look the same in html view, BUT if I use the Applescript to >"view the Msg source in TextEdit", I can see the real code, and know that >the email is a fraud. This is more work that most people, even me, are >willing to do to verify a message that otherwise looks legitimate. I think... you can use copy to clipboard. Not sure though. that's all I know about... some of your other suggestions seem reasonable and some I think have been requested but I don't know enough to comment. -- Barbara Needham
