[MlMt] Customising Mailbox Headers

[Malcolm Fitzgerald]

I've been customising my mailboxes recently. Different mailboxes have different 
needs. For example, an invoice from my utility company always has an 
attachment. That forms part of the rule set that defines the smart mailbox for 
bills. And because that's a rule, I don't need that information in the headers. 
It's a given, I don't need a visual indication.

The default set of headers includes quite a lot of information. For unread 
messages that aren't filtered into specific mailboxes that amount of 
information is useful. For most of the smart mailboxes I only want to see title 
and date.

The tools for modifying the header columns are fine - provided you only want to 
make one change. Unfortunately it is tedious to make many changes. It is 
especially tedious to have to make many changes to many mailboxes.

To switch multiple headers it's necessary to option-click the header to call up 
the dialog for every single change. I would much prefer if we could open the 
header column dialog and make multiple changes. When we are ready to commit the 
changes, we can use an OK button, or we can Cancel the dialog and no changes 
occur.

While I have been in the process of doing this I have discovered a nasty side 
effect. In the current setup, when there is only one column header selected ( 
subject, which is not user controlled ), the header disappears without warning. 
No header is displayed above the mailbox list view. In this situation, if that 
was not wanted, we can not rectify the situation. Because no header is 
displayed, (and there don't seem to be any menu items that allow me to manage 
that either,) then we cannot add the columns we would like to have displayed in 
the mailbox.

It was only by entering into a sustained click-frenzy, that I touched the 
conversation threading icons. Doing that, with no header displayed, caused the 
default collection of columns to be displayed and the header returned too. I'm 
guessing that is coded deliberately but I was surprised. If it's not 
deliberate, then we can add it to the list of known outcomes that may need to 
be evaluated.

Despite these trivial upsets I am very pleased to have such a good tool for 
managing email.

thank you,

Malcolm
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Re: [MlMt] Attachments when "send as new message

[Randall Gellens]

On 14 Feb 2024, at 14:42, Rob Russell via mailmate wrote:


Hi listers,

Quick one, is there a hidden setting somewhere in Mailmate that will 
allow 'Send as new message' to include attachments that were on the 
original message?


I often paste screen snippets from the clipboard to messages, which 
mailmate adds as an attachment with a markdown style reference to that 
image (yay), but if I choose to send that message as a new message, 
the attachments are missing, though the markdown links remain.


Or is there some technical reason why this is not possible.


Non-inline attachments, that is, those added by dragging an existing 
file into the attachments area of the composition window, or clicking 
the "+" in the attachments area of the composition window are preserved 
with "send as new message."


One work-around would be save the screenshot as a file, add that file as 
a non-inline attachment.


Something you can try (I haven't tried it so can't say if it works) is 
to save the screenshot as a file, then drag the file into the body of 
the message, where you'd paste a screenshot. MM might treat files 
differently from pasted images, regardless if inline or not.


--Randall
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