Barbara, [EMAIL PROTECTED] for whatever reason said specifically: >Mikael Byström on 9/5/03 said > >>PowerMail, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said it like this: >> >>>With version 4.2, you can now search for messages whose date received is >>>newer than a few hours/days and whose status is unread, for example. >> >>That's very nice of course and thank you for new nice features, but why >>compromise on such a good idea as the recent mail window? It's in the >>year of 2003 a uniqe idea in the currently developing Mac email client >>software world. Being a database developer myself I have very hard time >>accepting storing the message ID's (which I of course just guess is what >>you're using for the RMW) to disk between restarts is such an undertaking >>to motivate putting it off into the future. Please just make it stay and >>put a preference setting for it for those that prefer it does not. Please.... > >But then it isn't the "recent mail" window; it's more like an inbox....
No, it clearly wouldn't be. For starters, while an inbox keep mail until you remove it, it will be fully removed from the DB when you empty the trash. In the RMW, when you remove a message, it is still in its place for later perusal (obviously unless you explicitly delete it). With the option to keep messages in the RMW between restarts for a set time, say, the RMW feature would be more powerful for the user, as it would be possible for instance to: ·check your mail at your jobs fast connection, power down and read your mail from the RMW when home. ·continue reading the mornings new mail in the afternoon even though you had to restart PM. Ditto if you had a crash of some sort. As it is now all the possibility to at a glance check over what you have received when *you decide* is gone on the above situations. you have to do it *before* you powerdown, restart your app or it is lost. With many messages this can be nuisance and can slow you down. Or haven't you noticed how much faster it is to scan over the subjectlines and from addresses from the Recent Mail Window than having to go into many folders and see whether there is anything interesting? Also, as I already have said, if you'd like the messages in the RMW to stay only until next time you restart, then a simple preference setting concerning the behaviour of the RMW would keep both you and people like me (which would typically be ex-Emailer users) happy. As this was clear already before, did you disagree just to disagree? Or is it that you'd prefer for some obscure reason that only your needs be catered for by the CTM Dev team? I leave it to CTM to actually implement feature requests of course, but I fail to see that my simple wish is too much to ask for or is duplicating the inbox functionality as you try to implicate. To further test your viewpoint: would you prefer that CTM Dev impose a "recent" standard upon the user so that messages be removed automatically after a set timeframe in order to keep the RMW truly "recent"? Perhaps even between mail checks, Giving users that check mail every 2 minutes a very "truly recent" Recent Mail Window indeed. But perhaps that wasn't the objective, but real usefulness was.
