Hello,
I'd like to make some feature requests for the next "dev" version and
submit a bug; all hopefully relatively minor. I'll start with the bug
submission. If I chose the wrong forum for this, please let me know
and I'll resubmit them appropriately.
Some messages I receive have rather long subjects (generated by
programs). For example, here is an example subject header:
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Subject: Proj: Planner Solution home page / 20030210135341 -> Approval
denied, needs more work
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When I see the message in the list, it has multiple spaces between
"Approval" and "denied". Here's a copy-paste of the subject as
displayed:
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"Proj: Planner Solution home page / 20030210135341 -> Dev complete,need approval"
=
Other email clients seem to compensate for the wrapping of the subject
header and will reduce the multiple consecutive spaces into a single
space.
What I'd ideally like to see is:
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"Proj: Planner Solution home page / 20030210135341 -> Dev complete, need approval"
=
Feature requests: (please don't hurt me) :)
FR #1) I know some people will frown on this feature request, but I'd
like to see it anyway. Some times people use poor subject lines for important
messages, which makes them harder to see in when browsing a folder. It
would be nice if one could alter the subject, like with an in-place
edit.
FR #2) In a similar vein, it would be very handy to have a function to
"add a reference id" to a message. As you already know, some email
clients don't support reference-id's like TB, which thwarts
'thread-by-references' message viewing. It would be sweet to take a
message that belongs in a thread (but isn't since it's missing the
references) and say "add message as reference" and then you get to
pick a message for it to grab a reference ID from. This would be
really nice for me since I'm trying to keep track of different projects by
threads. Using filters/folders for the projects isn't feasible. There
are way too many projects, and most are incredibly small in scope; some
lasting just an hour or two. I'd literally have thousands of folders,
which is why I use just one folder and then thread messages.
FR #3) It would be nice to have an option to have the latest (newest)
message in a thread be displayed in the message list when the thread
is collapsed. This would let me see the latest status of each project
thread without having to expand and collapse the threads all of the
time.
FR #4) It would also be nice to have "entire thread" operators. I'm
not sure if there are key combinations for this or not, I haven' been
able to find any yet. I'd like to be able to select a message in a
thread and then issue a command (like set color group) on the ENTIRE
thread. It would also be nice to have a filter action to operate on
the entire thread a message is in, instead of just on that message.
For moving threads from one folder to another, or again setting the
color, etc. When a project stalls, I get an email and I would like to
mark the entire thread an orange color. When a project is complete,
I'd like to mark the entire thread on the project a gray color, etc.
FR #5) In a similar fashion maybe add thread options to pop-up menu.
If I have threading enabled, and the threads are collapsed, and I do a
"select all" and then drag the selection to another folder (to move
the messages), it doesn't copy any of the "hidden" messages in the
thread since the threads were collapsed. Would you add a right click
option for 'move threads' or a key modifier, like holding down ALT
while dragging, to move the entire thread even if it's collapsed?
Thank you very much for listening; I hope you'll consider some of
these requests :)
Take care,
--
James
Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBDEV" information:
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