On 4/4/06, Fredrik Jervfors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> I realy miss an option to answer a lot of mails in one operation. An
> >> example: I have sent a course invitation to a lot of users (a mail alias
> >> in sendmail, containing hundreds of mail addresses), and they make a
> >> booking by answering the mail. I have then made a filter to collect
> >> every answer in a folder ("answer folder").
> >>
> >> During a period of time I get a lot of mails in the "answer folder",
> >> and I want to write them a common answer. I really find it time wasting
> >> writing an answer to each one, or to copy/paste the mail addresses to
> >> the To-field.
> >>
> >> What I really miss is an option to select in the Inbox list every email
> >> I want to send mail to, and then make one mail which is sent to every
> >> receipient selected.
> >>
> >> An alternative is to make it possible to transfer every selected mail
> >> address in the Inbox to an already created Address Group (the Group
> >> address plugin).
> >>
> >> What do you think? Possible?
> >
> >
> > I think it's possible to write a plugin that collects the from addresses
> > (and/or other header data) from selected mails in the message list, and
> > then mass mail, store them in the address book or anything else, but I'm
> > not sure how it will affect the performance. Depending on your system
> > setup, such a plugin could be very slow when doing the header harvesting.
> >
> > The problem now is to find someone who's willing to code it. I should
> > finish some other stuff before starting new projects. I think it's a good
> > idea though, and that it's possible to do it as a SquirrelMail plugin.
>
>
> I looked at this a little more, and I have to change my opinion. I don't
> think that it's possible to do it as a normal plugin. At least a part of
> it has to be a patch. Still, it's just computers so it's not impossible to
> create it.Why? When I read the request, I thought of the spam_button plugin that harvests multiple messages from the list w/out a patch... although it does different things with the messages, but seems like it could work for this too (but unlike you, I am not looking at the code). This feature could be a good add-on to the already-existing reply_buttons plugin. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: [email protected] List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id)95 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
