Hello Marck,
On Friday, October 13, 2000 at 18:33:20 GMT +0100 (which was 10:33 AM
where I live) witnesses say Marck D. Pearlstone typed:
D>> - Is there a possibilities to change the order of folders (and
D>> accounts) in the left tree ? (actually, they appear in the creation
D>> order)
> Use Alt-Drag and drop to move folders. Use Ctrl-Drag to drop a folder
> /into/ another.
Um, slight correction, Ctrl-drag does nothing, Ctrl-Alt-drag moves a
folder into another folder.
D>> - When you receive a mail with a lot of "to:" people, it's not so
D>> easy to see the entire list. (you cab display the header of course)
> You can display the header (of course) ;-).
Um, Marck, if you display the header using View->Message Header, and
your message has lots of recipients, then you don't see all of them.
TB's scrolling of this field is also quite odd. This is one aspect
that is rather annoying in TB. Personally, only Netscape comes close
to dealing with this situation in a good way, but even that leaves
something to be desired. In Netscape, a list is displayed in the main
message viewer with essentially one address per line. Not all the
addresses are shown by default but there is a little arrow that will
show the rest. This field is treated like normal text, so
highlighting and copying are easy.
TB has the Address Auto-view option, but here the drop down list width
is much too small to see an overview of everyone who received the
message. Also all recipient fields (To, Cc, Bcc) are merged with the
sender fields (From:) into one list. (Obviously Bcc is only applicable
for messages you've created and sent).
I think the best solution would be for the Address Auto-view
dialogue to include a tab with a textbox containing the members of the
list one per line. Also there should be some way to indicate who in
in the sender field, To field and Cc field. Perhaps colours or an
icon could do this job. Alternately, the dialogue box could have 4
extra tabs, one for each field.
It would also be nice if this system ported to the message editor
window as well. In the message editor, Netscape Messenger 4.5 has
best system. If you've never seen how Netscape does this part, let me
know and I'll produce a screen capture. It is a very nice solution.
Don't get me wrong, when choosing addresses from the address book (the
little rolodex icon on the address line in the message editor), TB has
a very nice interface. What needs to be added is a way to add an
address in this dialogue box that does not exist in your address book.
Perhaps another possible solution would be to create a temporary
address book with the various recipients and senders as entries. I'm
not entirely sure how this would work, but it is another solution the
developers might consider.
However the developers choose to do this, I would really appreciate a
better visualization system to see addresses in the messages. TB has
excellent tools available, so I'm sure it won't require much extra
code to make reading and manipulating mail just a little easier.
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Thanks for writing,
Januk Aggarwal
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Using The Bat! 1.47 Beta/7
under Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A
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