*resend* since first version from this morning was more than 50KB and the moderator hasn't approved it yet.
* ==== original ==== * Here's the thing. There are several interface inconsistencies which are trivial and which IMO as a commercial software developer, should be addressed. 1) Why is there no 'Delete All' option when you click on the attachment tab in the viewer page? If there are several attachments and you want to delete them, you have to repeat the 'Delete' action numerous times. God help you if some relative decides to send you a ton of pictures of their new baby voted most likely to be the next anti-Christ. That means in order to delete 24 pictures of the next anti-Christ, you have to do a total of (24*3) clicks. That, to me, is patently unacceptable. 2) What is the point of having the option to delete the 'message.html' file, if its not going to be deleted but remains in the option as if the delete request was ignored, even though you already answered 'yes' to the delete prompt? 3) In threaded view, why is there no option (not even in the right-click menu) to expand or collapse a thread? I have discussion threads going back several months. If someone replies, I have to troll through many - many - many - many trees (of the same thread due to discussion branching) to get to the current 'unread' message or a particular message that I'm looking for. Sure if you're looking for unread messages, you can use the 'Unread' view to see a new incoming message, but thats not the point. 4) After importing a batch of emails from another program (e.g. TB), why is the 'received' date imported incorrectly? e.g. I recently switched from TB to TB! and imported a ton of emails going back many years. So now, I have - for e.g. - a folder with emails with received dates of 2007 with creation dates of far back as 1996 but filtered in the [threaded] view of 'Today' or 'Last Week' Thats just ridiculous. I was advised to just use a special view to sort them out. That hasn't worked at all, no matter what I try. So, if there is a way to fix this, what am I missing? See attached shot. I just tried it again by importing one of my archived TB folders. After the import, all the emails had a 'received' date of today. 5) In the 'Sorting Office/Filters' interface, when you create a filter and complete it, the name of the filter is not saved (or updated) unless you click elsewhere in the dialog. Also, given the number of crashes I've had in that interface since installing TB! a few days ago, my guess is that something fishy is going on in there and which needs careful looking at. 6) Why no option to have a replied to message reside in the current folder of the parent? Due to the fact that - as a developer - I have several developer threads going on, threaded views are invaluable (one of the reasons I switched from EudoraPro to TB four yrs ago, apart from the bloat and nonsensical licenses gauging where they make you pay - over and over for bug fixes) to me. So when I reply to a thread, I expect the reply to remain in the folder (ergo tree) where the parent is. Now, I find that I have to create a [move] filter for this. I think its cumbersome. Especially when you have many - many - developers and other affiliates with whom you have lengthy (and thus threaded) email discussions. 7) In the 'Tools/Import Messages' dialog, if you select an account, you only get the option to use the import wizard. Which of course does not allow the importing of other email formats such as Unix, EML etc. I found out the hard way that if you want those other options enabled, you have to first select a mailbox within the account. This is (a) inconsistent (b) is not mentioned in the manual This has been the topic of discussion on the forums as well in which some was trying to convince me that I had the wrong mindset. Which of course is foolish and without merit. IF that is the way the developers intended it, then it _should_ be accurately documented. Its not and that almost cost you guys a sale because I was just about ready to settle on Pocomail (I evaluated it and TB!) if I couldn't import my emails properly since they were in Unix format which is what TB uses. 8) The import of Unix mailboxes with folders is also inconsistent. * You export a folder (e.g. 'media') containing subfolders (inbox, outbox, sent) * Since you know they are in a specific [Unix] format, you click on a mailbox (e.g. Inbox) within an account and then use the "Tools/Import Messages" dialog. Now you end up with a tree structure like this: account_name ->Inbox ->media ->media/inbox ->media/outbox ->media/Sent Thats all well and good and is what its supposed to do. My question is, why couldn't this have been done at the 'account' tree level? In which case, you'd end up with a tree that looks _exactly_ as the above. Without first selecting 'Inbox' within the 'account_name', you could never import the 'media' email tree because the option to do so is disabled and since the files are in a different format, you can't use the import wizard because it expects only certain types of emails. What is even curioser to me is that the import wizard has options for Netscape but not Mozilla Thunderbird. How hard can it be to add that option? Especially since the format used by Thunderbird is already a known (Unix) format that is, as a matter of fact, a _standard_ format. That said... All in all, I think its a pretty solid email program but still needs some polish and minor tweaks here and there. -- cheers, Indie_Dev ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.99.20 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
