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Larry S. Samberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Sat, 12 Apr 2003 11:46:32 -0700 Leonard Morgenstern wrote:
>On 4/12/03 10:24 AM Larry Samberg wrote:
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>>.so these are things that would make the program more
>>usable for ME
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>Dear Larry:
>
>Several of the things you want are already there. What PowerMail REALLY
>needs is a good users' manual so starters like you don't get so frustrated.
LSS> That would help :)
>
>>
>>1. A DELETE button in a message window. After I read the message I don't
>>want to go all the way up to the toolbar to get rid of it.
>>
>Pressing the option key adds garbage cans to the arrowheads in the upper
>right corner. Click on one and the message is deleted and you go to the
>next or previous message. This is a little extra effort if you are
>looking at a single message, but is very handy when you have opened a
>bunch of them. You can delete them one by one by holding one finger on
>the option key and clicking the mouse with the other hand.
Excellent!
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>>2. A way to toggle between REPLY and REPLY ALL after I have selected
>>reply. I keep my default as REPLY in order to avoid the annoying habit of
>>responding to everybody for trivial things. But then when I do need to do
>>a REPLY ALL I don't seem to have much choice but to close the REPLY and
>>do it again.
>
>Again the option key does it. Hold it down and click on the little girl
>with the left arrow in the toolbar and you will have a choice.
This one doesn't work. The girl is greyed out with or without the option key.
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>>3. Timed trash removal...I depend on the fact that I can get things out
>>of the trash after I have accidently trashed them. The realization that I
>>mistakenly trashed something often will come an hour or two after I do
>>it. So, I am really hesitant to just empty the entire trash at one
>>time...it requires me to believe that I haven't accidently trashed
>>something in the past hour or two. I would like to say "purge items in
>>the trash after xxx hours"...
>>
>There is a very good script for this called "Purge Old Trash" (I think --
>I may have renamed it) I have set it to delete all trash more than 9 days
>old. It is necessary to have the messages sorted by date, oldest first.
>And, of course, it's not automatic. You have to remember to use it.
Actually, I hadn't thought of writing an Applescript for that. Hmmmm.
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>I hope this helps.
>
>Len
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