Hello MAU,

> Have you ever wished you could assign more than one Colour Group to a
> message? If so, maybe you'd like to support this old wish:
>
> https://www.ritlabs.com/bt/view.php?id=6057

I have re-read what I wrote over one year ago in the BT wish and I think
it is quite clear. Still, maybe some of you may not understand clearly
what I mean, specially if you have not used Watch Folders (Watch Replies
in...).

The first thing to understand is the difference between Colour (Groups)
and Bookmarks.

- Colour (Groups) are assigned to messages. It is an attribute of
messages and it can only have one value: either None or one of the
defined Colour Groups.

- Messages are assigned to Bookmarks. A bookmarks is a list of messages
and, therefore, messages can be assigned to (and appear in) none, one or
many bookmarks.

That is why I believe that Bookmarks could be implemented somewhat
easily and at a not high cost and announced as "A new feature of version
4!"

The idea is to duplicate, clone or reuse the design and code of Watch
Folders. With some differences:

- Bookmarks are created as sub-folders of a single "Bookmark" Common
folder. See attached Bookmarks.png.

- The basic and great different to normal Watch Folders is that there is
no need to watch for possible replies to bookmarked messages.

- To completely differentiate Bookmarks from Watch Folders, a menu
separate from the 'Watch Replies in.." should be created. Something like
in attached 'Bookmarks Menu.png'.

- Finally, something I've thought about today. It would be ideal if
there was a filter action to bookmark messages

-- 
Best regards,

Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain)
Using The Bat! v4.0.0.12 (ALPHA) on Windows XP 5.1 Service Pack 2

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