On 21 Feb 2015, at 10:08, Shoshanna Green wrote:
When I have a message open in its own window (Widescreen layout with
the message list pulled all the way to the right), the Move to
Mailbox… command is unavailable (greyed out). This is both odd,
since Move to Archive, Move to Junk, and Delete are all still
available, and awkward. But I need to have most messages saved in
specific folders, not just generically archived, so that I can find
them when I'm not using MailMate. Can Move to Mailbox… be made
available? (And, huh, Go to Mailbox is also unavailable, though that's
less critical in this context.)
I see what you mean and agree. The ⌥⌘-T shortcut for moving the
message doesn't work either.
In my preferred workflow, I'd open a message in a separate window,
read it, move it to the appropriate mailbox (or archive or delete it),
and the next message in the folder would open (in its separate window)
as the moved (or archived or deleted) one disappeared. Next best would
be if the moved one remained visible in its existing window, so that I
can just hit whatever key I've bound to "next message" and have it
appear.
The latter is what happens if I archive a message that's displayed in
a separate window.
Not only that, but after archiving, I can't navigate to another message
using the ⌘-(↑/↓) keys. There are no toolbar buttons either. A
lot here seem to love a key-shortcut driven workflow/navigation. I
personally do a combination and while reading alone, I tend to use my
magic mouse to select messages and scroll.
I think (haven't fully investigated) that these all behave as I'd want
if I have the message open in a pane of the main window, but honestly
I never want to do that, and don't understand the format's popularity.
I often want to refer to several messages at once! Plus I use Witch to
access windows from the keyboard, so I always want everything in
individual windows, not panes or tabs.
The popularity I guess is based on one being able to see the message
list while viewing message bodies. Also, I personally have grown
unaccustomed to using many windows. Horses for courses really, and
after doodling, I don't think your type of workflow has been optimised
in MailMate. For me, needing to have more than one message open in a
window is too infrequent to justify an always-separate
message-view-window approach to my workflow. If I need to open a
message in a separate window, I just do so on the few occasions when
needed. However, if I needed to do this frequently, then yes, I'd
certainly adopt your approach as I had done back in the days of PMMail
on OS/2 Warp - there's an example of optimisation for separate window
message view/navigation ..... and would you believe that it's [still
being developed for
OS/2](http://pmmail.os2voice.org/index.php?title=PMMail_for_OS/2)???
;)
—
Curtis acm
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