On 2010/01/25, at 7:26, Michael A. Alderete wrote: > Of the features I still genuinely miss from Eudora, the unified Outbox / > Drafts / Sent mailbox is the biggest. With Eudora, there was no Drafts > mailbox, no Sent mailbox, only the Outbox. Messages had a status that > differentiated them, e.g., draft, sent, queued. There was never any confusion > where an email I had written would be found, messages wouldn't move around > depending on things the app was doing behind my back, network or timing > issues, etc.; it was always the Outbox. > > Aside from being simple and clear, the other behavior I liked about Eudora > was the ability to enqueue messages for sending. With Apple Mail, something > is either in draft (and will never be sent without explicit action) or sent. > > With Eudora, when I thought an email was ready to send, I would enqueue it. > It would be sent at the next mail check (manual or timed). (It was also > possible to enqueue a message for sending at a specific time in the future, > useful for pretending to work late. :-) I could consider the message dealt > with, no further attention required, but I generally had a few minutes where, > if another thought popped into my head, or my temper cooled, I could go back > and add to or edit the message.
I agree. I had totally forgotten about that in the intervening decade, but that Eudora feature was very useful. And I also agree with Ciao's suggestion that Option-send should then mean Send Immediately. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com
