On 17/10/07 (02:24) Sean said: >The contents of the Recent Mail window change if you quit PM and >relaunch it. Mail is no longer "recent" at relaunch.
That is of course, a definition of 'recent' imposed by the developers. In my real-world workflow, whether I deem a piece of mail to be 'recent' or not is something unrelated to how many times I quit or launch my email client -- it is to do with (amongst other things) the length of time elapsed since the message was received. The RMW collates all of my received mail into one place, which is useful since most of my mail gets automatically filtered into folders as it arrives. Hunting through hundreds of nested folders looking for 'bolded' folders and opening them to look at the mail is unnecessarily convoluted, which is why I rely on the RMW. Having that collation wiped between restarts is incredibly unhelpful to me, regardless of whether it conforms to CTM's view of what constitutes 'recent' mail. Of course others may feel differently, which is why I would suggest adding a checkbox in preferences to let the user decide whether the RMW gets cleared out at quit. Other solutions would include: Flagging (NOT labels, they serve a different purpose) and/or Smart folders. Rick -- G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM :: 10.4.9 :: PM 5.5.2 :: 3 pane mode
