Re: Filtering / Message rules better in Outlook Express?

2002-02-18 Thread David Tenser
OK! Thanks for letting me know. It will not happen again. / David RV wrote: David Tenser wrote: RV wrote: David Tenser wrote: Bug filed. http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125885 Since you agree, please comment in the bug listing! I guess, the more people that backs

Re: Filtering / Message rules better in Outlook Express?

2002-02-17 Thread RV
David Tenser wrote: Bug filed. http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125885 Since you agree, please comment in the bug listing! I guess, the more people that backs up this suggestion, the more likely that it will be implemented. This is probably an enhancement that would take

Re: Filtering / Message rules better in Outlook Express?

2002-02-17 Thread RV
David Tenser wrote: RV wrote: David Tenser wrote: Bug filed. http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125885 Since you agree, please comment in the bug listing! I guess, the more people that backs up this suggestion, the more likely that it will be implemented. Well,

Re: Filtering / Message rules better in Outlook Express?

2002-02-16 Thread Jonas Jørgensen
David Tenser wrote: Enable interval mail checking and check mail on startup. I find it wierd that you want to have to click the Get Msgs button in order to get new messages ;-) Hehe... well, that's a solution to the problem. But I still think the button should download all accounts by

Re: Filtering / Message rules better in Outlook Express?

2002-02-16 Thread David Tenser
Jonas Jørgensen wrote: David Tenser wrote: Enable interval mail checking and check mail on startup. I find it wierd that you want to have to click the Get Msgs button in order to get new messages ;-) Hehe... well, that's a solution to the problem. But I still think the button should

Re: Filtering / Message rules better in Outlook Express?

2002-02-16 Thread Pratik
On 2/16/2002 10:07 AM, David Tenser wrote: snip This leads to a question I've been wanting to ask for quite some time now: Is filing a bug report the correct way to suggest improvements? Of should improvements be filed to another place? It's the correct way. There's a severity field called

Re: Filtering / Message rules better in Outlook Express?

2002-02-16 Thread David Tenser
Jonas Jørgensen wrote: David Tenser wrote: Blake Ross wrote: Does this mean that they haven't had the time to add this feature in four years? No, it means that few of Mozilla's distributor's customers have been clamoring for it, and thus it's not a priority. Why would a

Re: Filtering / Message rules better in Outlook Express?

2002-02-16 Thread Jonas Jørgensen
David Tenser wrote: I guess. I'm a VB coder, so it would probably take more time for me to get familiar with the code than it would take for Netscape to implement this themselves :( I don't do C++ either (yet), but I have found it surprisingly easy to learn to hack on Mozilla's front-end.

Re: Filtering / Message rules better in Outlook Express?

2002-02-16 Thread Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T.
Pratik wrote: On 2/16/2002 10:07 AM, David Tenser wrote: snip This leads to a question I've been wanting to ask for quite some time now: Is filing a bug report the correct way to suggest improvements? Of should improvements be filed to another place? It's the correct way. There's a

Re: Filtering / Message rules better in Outlook Express?

2002-02-16 Thread David Tenser
I'm totally confused. I've downloaded and installed cygwin and Perl. The instructions says: 1* Set up Patch Maker (see above.) 2* Change to the chrome directory of a Mozilla nightly build. 3* Execute pmn to unjar your chrome. 4* [...] First of all, I fail to set up Patch

Re: Filtering / Message rules better in Outlook Express?

2002-02-16 Thread Jonas Jørgensen
David Tenser wrote: I'm totally confused. I've downloaded and installed cygwin and Perl. The instructions says: 1* Set up Patch Maker (see above.) 2* Change to the chrome directory of a Mozilla nightly build. 3* Execute pmn to unjar your chrome. 4* [...] First of

Re: Filtering / Message rules better in Outlook Express?

2002-02-16 Thread David Tenser
Thanks for clearing this up for me! I have now successfully unjarred chrome (whatever that means). I'm feeling stupid, I'm a programmer and can't follow these instructions! :( Am I being ignorant? I found them a bit hard to follow as well, especially since the first version of Patch

Re: Filtering / Message rules better in Outlook Express?

2002-02-16 Thread michael lefevre
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jonas Jørgensen wrote: David Tenser wrote: Thanks for clearing this up for me! I have now successfully unjarred chrome (whatever that means). JAR files are like ZIP files. in fact, i think it is true that JAR files _are_ ZIP files. if you simply rename a

Re: Filtering / Message rules better in Outlook Express?

2002-02-16 Thread David Tenser
Correct. michael lefevre wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jonas Jørgensen wrote: David Tenser wrote: Thanks for clearing this up for me! I have now successfully unjarred chrome (whatever that means). JAR files are like ZIP files. in fact, i think it is true that JAR files _are_

Re: Filtering / Message rules better in Outlook Express?

2002-02-16 Thread JTK
Jonas Jørgensen wrote: David Tenser wrote: Thanks for clearing this up for me! I have now successfully unjarred chrome (whatever that means). JAR files are like ZIP files. In fact JAR files *are* ZIP files if I'm not mistaken. Unjarring the chrome means unzipping the JAR files in

Re: Filtering / Message rules better in Outlook Express?

2002-02-15 Thread Pascal Chevrel
JTK wrote: Pascal Chevrel wrote: David Tenser wrote: Yes, it's obvious that Mozilla's aim is to make a near-perfect, secure webpage renderer. Gecko is the heart of it all. The problem is, too few real people are actually using Mozilla, so no one knows just how many security holes there is

Re: Filtering / Message rules better in Outlook Express?

2002-02-15 Thread David Tenser
Matt Williams wrote: David Tenser wrote: Matt Williams wrote: David, for those of us who are novice users what are the things you would like to see added/changed/fixed. Various things. Some examples (please let me know if something requested here is already in there!): * General:

Re: Filtering / Message rules better in Outlook Express?

2002-02-15 Thread David Tenser
Well, the oldest comment for that bug is from 1998!! Does this mean that they haven't had the time to add this feature in four years? / David Christian Biesinger wrote: David Tenser wrote: I've been using Mozilla for a week now and I was thinking of completely switch to it starting from

Re: Filtering / Message rules better in Outlook Express?

2002-02-15 Thread Blake Ross
Does this mean that they haven't had the time to add this feature in four years? No, it means that few of Mozilla's distributor's customers have been clamoring for it, and thus it's not a priority. Why would a feature be added because a bug filer wanted it? Do you think that's how things

Re: Filtering / Message rules better in Outlook Express?

2002-02-15 Thread Matt Williams
David Tenser wrote: Matt Williams wrote: David Tenser wrote: Matt Williams wrote: David, for those of us who are novice users what are the things you would like to see added/changed/fixed. Various things. Some examples (please let me know if something requested here is

Re: Filtering / Message rules better in Outlook Express?

2002-02-15 Thread David Tenser
Tim Wunder wrote: David Tenser wrote: snip I just find it weird having to select each and every Inbox and press Get Msgs. Why would I only want to check one account at a time, and if I wanted to, I could click on the little arrow next to the button and select that account. I

Re: Filtering / Message rules better in Outlook Express?

2002-02-15 Thread David Tenser
In other words, the only way to get a feature implemented is to keep on posting it as a bug, which will lead to more overhead work for the poor guys who have to wade through the duplicates every day. Surely there must be more than one guy back in -98 who wants to have better filtering options

Re: Filtering / Message rules better in Outlook Express?

2002-02-14 Thread Christian Biesinger
David Tenser wrote: I've been using Mozilla for a week now and I was thinking of completely switch to it starting from today. Then I discovered the lack of a feature that I use very often: The ability to set up a message rule/filter to forward any incoming email message to another email

Re: Filtering / Message rules better in Outlook Express?

2002-02-14 Thread David Tenser
I'm starting to understand that more and more. But why is that really? How come several developers and hundreds of fellow coders out there on a massive open source project can't outsmart simple programs like Outlook Express when it comes to functionality? Of course, one reason could be that

Re: Filtering / Message rules better in Outlook Express?

2002-02-14 Thread JTK
David Tenser wrote: I'm starting to understand that more and more. But why is that really? How come several developers and hundreds of fellow coders out there on a massive open source project can't outsmart simple programs like Outlook Express when it comes to functionality? Two

Re: Filtering / Message rules better in Outlook Express?

2002-02-14 Thread RV
JTK wrote: ...exactly. This isn't rocket science, it's brain surgery. Are you implying rocket science is more complicated than brain surgery? Anyone who think or believe the cliche about rocket science is in desperate need for a brain surgeon. There's simply no excuse (though you'll hear

Re: Filtering / Message rules better in Outlook Express?

2002-02-14 Thread David Tenser
Yes, it's obvious that Mozilla's aim is to make a near-perfect, secure webpage renderer. Gecko is the heart of it all. The problem is, too few real people are actually using Mozilla, so no one knows just how many security holes there is in it (and I bet it's *hundreds*, based on the the

Re: Filtering / Message rules better in Outlook Express?

2002-02-14 Thread Kryptolus
David Tenser wrote: Yes, it's obvious that Mozilla's aim is to make a near-perfect, secure webpage renderer. Gecko is the heart of it all. First of all David, Please stop feeding the troll. You probably just subscribed to these newsgroups/lists, but I've been here long enough to tell you

Re: Filtering / Message rules better in Outlook Express?

2002-02-14 Thread David Tenser
I'm not trying to be anybody's friend (or fiend) here. But you are absolutely right in that I'm pretty new at this (Mozilla and it's newsgroups). All I'm trying to do is to post constructive criticism to the newsgroup. This is because in the end I want to be able to switch to Mozilla

Re: Filtering / Message rules better in Outlook Express?

2002-02-14 Thread Pascal Chevrel
David Tenser wrote: Yes, it's obvious that Mozilla's aim is to make a near-perfect, secure webpage renderer. Gecko is the heart of it all. The problem is, too few real people are actually using Mozilla, so no one knows just how many security holes there is in it (and I bet it's

Re: Filtering / Message rules better in Outlook Express?

2002-02-14 Thread David Tenser
Just wanted to make this point perfectly clear: I like Mozilla! Since the day I downloaded a month ago, I've been trying hard to use it whenever possible, restarting it if it crashed, and importing all my mail from Outlook Express. If I didn't like Mozilla, I wouldn't be here asking questions

Re: Filtering / Message rules better in Outlook Express?

2002-02-14 Thread Blake Ross
Mozilla is a *living* project. I download new builds every weekday, which is very exciting and unusual (although I miss a traditional whatsnew.txt file that explains what's been changed in every nighly build). Try the BuildBar at http://www.mozillazine.org/, run by Asa. Every effort is

Re: Filtering / Message rules better in Outlook Express?

2002-02-14 Thread David Tenser
Matt Williams wrote: David, for those of us who are novice users what are the things you would like to see added/changed/fixed. Various things. Some examples (please let me know if something requested here is already in there!): * General: better toolbar customizations The ability to

Re: Filtering / Message rules better in Outlook Express?

2002-02-14 Thread Matt Williams
David Tenser wrote: Matt Williams wrote: David, for those of us who are novice users what are the things you would like to see added/changed/fixed. Various things. Some examples (please let me know if something requested here is already in there!): * General: better toolbar

Re: Filtering / Message rules better in Outlook Express?

2002-02-14 Thread Travis Crump
David Tenser wrote: * General: Ability to change keyboard shortcuts. This is something that many programs lacks, including IE. If you use a particular feature often, you should be able to assign a keyboard shortcut to it. The funny part is that on Gnome, the crappiest program lets you do

Re: Filtering / Message rules better in Outlook Express?

2002-02-14 Thread JTK
Kryptolus wrote: David Tenser wrote: Yes, it's obvious that Mozilla's aim is to make a near-perfect, secure webpage renderer. Gecko is the heart of it all. First of all David, Please stop feeding the troll. My ears are burning! You probably just subscribed to these newsgroups/lists,

Re: Filtering / Message rules better in Outlook Express?

2002-02-14 Thread JTK
Pascal Chevrel wrote: David Tenser wrote: Yes, it's obvious that Mozilla's aim is to make a near-perfect, secure webpage renderer. Gecko is the heart of it all. The problem is, too few real people are actually using Mozilla, so no one knows just how many security holes there is in it

Filtering / Message rules better in Outlook Express?

2002-02-13 Thread David Tenser
I've been using Mozilla for a week now and I was thinking of completely switch to it starting from today. Then I discovered the lack of a feature that I use very often: The ability to set up a message rule/filter to forward any incoming email message to another email address, based on