On 1/26/10 5:28 AM, "Eliot Hochberg" <[email protected]> wrote:
1) Make return receipt actually work, so that for important
messages, they can be reliably sent.
That¹s a problem with internet email in general, as a lot of receipt
functionality is up to the client. You also have to define what receipt you
want, (there are several). It¹s handy, yes, but I don¹t think you can ever
make it reliable¹.
>
> 2) Make it be smart about Mime types and how other mail clients format
> messages.
>
> The latter is super important, especially with attachments. Macs have the
> hardest time with some folks' systems. Attachments still are sometimes
> unrecognized.
>
Mail is particularly bad here.
>
> 3) Plug-in: allow coordination with YouSendIt or your own FTP site for extra
> large attachments. If you try to attach something that's too large, the system
> could be smart about it and offer to load it elsewhere and provide a link.
As much as I hate over-use of ³plugin², this would seem like a use case for
a plugin. You¹ll literally spend days trying to define what ³too large² is,
if not forever. (When I worked for a science company, a GB was considered a
bit much. Not forbidden mind you, but a tade rude.) Second, YouSendIt and
other services like that aren¹t free, or there are reasons why someone
wouldn¹t be able to use them. Finally, not everyone has an FTP site.
Attachment size problems tend to be solved on their own by the needs of the
people in the situation. Trying to solve it for them in the application is
kinda doomed.
--
John C. Welch Writer/Analyst
Bynkii.com Mac and other opinions
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