Hello all,
I am sure we all more or less often repeat certain certain searches for
messages in several (or all) folders, like find all messages in a Colour
Group, From/To someone, with certain keywords in subject, etc., etc.
So, I was going to make a feature request to be able to save Message
Finder settings, not just the string history but the Options and
Advanced tabs settings to be able to easily reproduce the search when
needed.
What if we could define a special kind of Global Folders, let's call
them Virtual Folders, that their Properties had only the General and
Memo tabs PLUS the Options and Advances tabs of Message Finder? We could
then run a search and see the results on the main window with messages
listed on the list pane and viewed in the preview pane. Ideal for me!
A Virtual Folder defined this way does not need templates of any kind,
just like the Results tab of the Message Finder.
Ideally, all Virtual Folders would update automatically every time new
messages are received, or moved or deleted. But I understand that could
quite cumbersome and time consuming with large message bases. So, an
option to Refresh all, or just an option to refresh (from context menu)
when the folder is selected would be good enough I think.
Obviously, each virtual folder must have its corresponding folder in the
Mail path, so that pointers to the messages result of a search can be
saved and restored when TB is started.
I don't know how useful will others think this would be. I know it would
be very useful for me. And heck! It should not be so difficult to
implement, most of the needed code is already there for the Message
Finder.
If you like this idea and would like to support it, please go to:
https://www.ritlabs.com/bt/bug_view_advanced_page.php?bug_id=0002598
Thanks
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Best regards,
Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain)
Using The Bat! v2.04.4 on Windows 2000 5.0 Service Pack 4
Current version is 2.04.04 | 'Using TBUDL' information:
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