Hi everybody! Not only I agree with Greg and Allie and MAU that mixing real with virtual messages isn't a good idea, I do believe it does not make any sense. The discussion, which has become very complicated and tedious to follow, so far has found patches to patches in the attempt to implement "hybrid" VFs at all costs.
I think we should better focus on the question "is there a real need to have (physical or manually linked it's a secondary point) messages into VFs?". If such a need really exists then we might look for a solution, if not then we should not lose our time and move to another topic. In my opinion VFs should not contain physical nor "manually linked" messages because, as I showed earlier (see my other message in the "Re: Search / Virtual Folder" thread as reply to Januk), you can obtain whatever combination you desire with "pure" VFs (in a clear, intuitive and easy way) and I challenge anyone to show even one single situation where "hybrid" VFs are necessary to obtain. If eventually such need would be found then I would definitely reject the idea of physical messages into VFs and agree with the Greg's definition of "hybrid" VF as folder that contains only pointers to messages which are created with a filter &/or dragging of messages. But even this, I repeat, appears to me as a bad scenario. Today at 6.39 Januk wrote: >> I think VF folders need to be DIFFERENTIATED in the folder pane >> because presently they are NOT. JA> You can assign them a colour group... I think what Greg meant was to differentiate them with a different icon, just like Inbox and Outbox are marked with different arrows, or like the "Junk mail" folder is marked with a red cross on it. VFs could be differentiated, for example, by making them "transparent" (representing their "virtual" nature), or with the letter "v" over them. JA> I don't know how much more CLEAR I can be. You didn't respond to JA> my example that I posted in my last message, so I assume you JA> missed it. The example discusses pretty much all of your JA> questions. I personally found that quite confused and sincerely suggested me that you don't know the functioning of present filters and/or don't know what's the purpose of VFs and/or you missed the point of discussion. Don't take it personally, I meant that with no offense. -- Regards, Marco Lackovic Using The Bat! v2.04.7 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 2.05 beta 12 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
