On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Michael A. Alderete
<[email protected]> 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.

I can't comment on how this interacts with IMAP requirements, but I
agree that Eudora's ability to queue messages for later, even a
specific time, was great. I often went into my Out box to add
something to a message I'd queued, and was glad I could do that.

I detest the Drafts/Sent dichotomy - I don't write drafts of email
messages, so the only time something is in Drafts is while I'm
actually writing, which means it's a whole "mailbox" that never
contains more than a single message. What a waste of conceptual and
physical UI space.

In Gmail, I adore the Undo Send feature from Gmail Labs because it
lets me get just a little closer to have Eudora's queue capability. I
often think of something else a message should contain just after I've
sent it, and as long as it's within 10 seconds, I can edit the message
and resend.

cheers... -Adam

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