Hello Alexander, >>> TB shows the "organisation" headers contents after the FROM address in >>> the header pane (thats nice). > >> No, from my PoV it is NOT nice at all. > > Well, from my PoV it is nice because I can see the organisation easily and > not waste another line of my already-too-big preview header pane. :)
First of all I must apologise for the many typos in my message last night and for writing To some times when it should have said From, etc. I guess that aside of a bit upset (not for you message, of course) I was also quite tired after a loooong day and the long tests about mailto URLs. Anyway, I guess you and whoever read my message understood what I was trying to say :) I can understand your PoV and respect it, any PoV is as respectable as my own. Aside of that, life would be quite boring if we all had the same PoV about everything. > I don't mind, as long as you can have it your way and I can have it mine. I > will file one bug report for the organisation header being added to the > from address, and one wish that the display of the organisation next to the > FROM address in the header pane should be optional. No, I object to that also for two reasons: a 'philosophical' one and a practical one. As I have said, I understand your PoV and your concern about screen real estate, etc., but, do you really need to see the Organisation of every or most messages you receive? How many other users need the same? Wouldn't it be better to display From+Sender or any other combination, etc.? My 'philosophical' objection is based on coherency and consistency, both of TB and the users. I personally don't really care. I read messages in preview pane and I just display the _basic_ headers (From, Subject and Creation date) in my header pane. When I need or want to see other headers for whatever reasons I can do several things: - Right click on the header pane and select to display the header I want/need to see. - Double click on the message in the message list to open a folder view where I have more headers selected to be displayed in the header pane. (The selection of headers displayed in preview and folder displays are independent of each other). - Right click on the message pane and select 'RFC-822 Headers' So, in all cases I'm just one or two clicks away when I want to see something I normally don't need to see. Anyway, continuing with my 'philosophical' objections: We are talking about _Header_ pane(s) which are supposed to display *headers* and this is why I object to *combinations* of headers. Or, if 'combinations' are allowed or forced, the displayed field should be called something else, not From. It seems more coherent to me that the From field displays only the From header, just like my argument about the To column. But also consistency: Why doesn't the From column also display From+Organisation? Or why the To header field in the header pane doesn't display To+CC like the To column does? But I said I also have 'practical' objections. There are other examples of 'features' of this type (of doubtless real use to most users, from my PoV) in TB, but let's stick to the one if focus now. If the From was not From+Organisation (which probably took little code to implement it and that's why they did it) you would have not discovered any bug and logged a bug report, one more in the long list. If the 'bug' is ever to be fixed, they have to add code to to _remove_ the Organisation when you do a 'Reply to this address' (like you did when you found the bug) and _also_ for the 'Write a Message to This Address' option. But then, why not add code so that when you select 'Add to Address Book' the Organisation part of the From+Organisation is added in the Company field of the Business tab of the AB entry? But wait, then someone may say that, for example in your case, the Organisation in your messages is actually a URL to a web page and that TB should be smart enough to detect this and not include it as Company in the AB entry but as as Home page. But another wait, should it be included as Personal Home page or Business Home page? But then, to satisfy everyone, should all of this also be optional and configurable? Summarising... I do believe it would be more coherent, consistent, practical, simple, less prone to 'bugs' (and therefore easier to maintain by developers) to have the headers in Header pane and columns is message list, just show/display what the field name says: From should display From header _only_ and To the To header _only_. But I may be wrong :) -- Best regards, Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain) Using The Bat! v3.62.11 on Windows XP 5.1 Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.62.12 | '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/
