On 27-Jan-2010, at 16:00, Lachlan Hunt wrote:
>
> I never, ever want to send HTML mail. The default (and, IMHO, only) method
> for sending mail should be as plain text.
No on both counts. The only mode should not be plain text (but maybe for 1.0)
and the default should be styled text.
I agree that I *never* want to send html mail and only want to read plain text,
but we are in the minority. In a very small minority.
> E-mail should default to sending encoded as UTF-8. There are very few
> reasons to ever compose an e-mail and send in any other encoding.
Yeah, I'd agree with that.
> * RFC 2646 Compliance (format=flowed)
I think we've covered this and agreed fromat=flowed is a Good Thing.
> As I'm on a lot of mailing lists, and often threads can get quite long, I
> find it's often appreciated to reduce the number of e-mails sent. One way to
> do this is to reply once to a whole group of messages, each individually
> quoted and attributed one after the other. This also helps to avoid
> repeating yourself, since you're less likely to say the same thing twice in
> one e-mail, as you are when responding in separate e-mails. I've heard Pine
> supports this sort of functionality, but I've not used Pine myself.
But this screws up threading, so it's not really that useful.
> So, I would like to be able to select a number of messages in a thread,
> choose Reply All, and be presented with a composition window that quotes and
> attributes each selected e-mail, one after the other. The mail should be
> addressed to the mailing list(s), with each of the recipients BCC'd. (since
> there's likely to be a lot of people addressed, sending by BCC should help to
> keep the reply-to list short.
And this will really piss off people who do not like getting duplicate message
from you *and* the list.
> Often, a thread's participant list can grow rapidly, causing CC lists to
> become increasingly long. While I think it's reasonable to CC the people
> being directly responded to,
And I think it's proof the poster is aligned with Satan… just saying.
> * Automatic BCC to Self
This should be trivial to implement, and not a core function so "PLUGIN!"
> * Easy Signature Management
>
> Sometimes, it's useful to have different signatures for different purposes.
> It would be very useful if this mail client could choose an appropriate
> signature for me, e.g. based on where I'm sending the mail or which account
> it's from, and also make it very easy to switch to an alternative signature
> manually if necessary.
Basic signature support in 1.0 for sure. Anything more than that will need to
either wait for something after 1.0, or another plugin. Personally, I manage my
signatures completely outside of my mail and news programs. I have a program
that generates a new .signature every few seconds, and sends that to a specific
signature in Mail.app via AppleScript.
> * Address Book Integration
Yes.
> Again, I would like to see the plain text alternative by default when I
> receive a multi-part e-mail. I really dislike reading HTML mail as much as I
> hate sending it. Ideally, when someone omits the plain text alternative, the
> e-mail client should automatically convert and render the HTML variant as if
> it were plain text.
Yes, maybe. I think Webkit can do that, so it should be 'free'. If not, it
might require incorporating lynx into the bundle and handling externally
(there's no reason to reinvent the wheel here).
> The default rendering should be a monospace font, such as Monaco. Please do
> not use Courier for any purpose.
This is a Mac app. it will use the fonts you tell it to use.
> * Automatically Checking Multiple Folders for New Messages
Yes.
> * New Mail Notifications
We've certainly talked about support for this (probably via Growl).
[We've talked about most everything else in this email I think. Skipping down a
lot.]
> * Junk Mail Filter and Scam Detection
I don't see this as being a 1.0 feature, and I would argue it's not a mail
client feature _at_all_. These tests are best done by either the server, or a
dedicated tool that will certainly do a better job.
Want Junk/Scam filtering, then get something like SpamSeive to integrate into
Letters.
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