On Sun, 9 Jan 2000 08:50:15 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
>> What Alex and others have been getting at is that when you move the
>> message and create a reply, it will use the parameters of the account
>> and folder to which you moved it and not that of the account and folder
>> which you moved it from.
> I know this. That is why I said that when a message comes into the
> wrong account, just move it to the right account and reply from there.
> From then on the person will be replying to the correct account. Why
> would someone move it to the wrong account?
To keep the messages from one particular individual or group
together.
It's easier for me to browse messages in one folder instead of
opening four different folders in four different accounts from the same
people or group. There are two ways to do this. Use filters to get the
mail to this central loaction and then filter them again to their intended
permanent locations manually after reading the messages ..... or use
virtual folders. :)
>> However, I think the concept of virtual folders would be beneficial without
>> breaking the present TB! paradigm.
> Which is personalities and does break the paradigm of TB!. Why people
> want to mungle everything together is utterly beyond me.
I fail to see how virtual folders equal personalities. Please tell
educate me.
AFAIK, personalities are names given to the same account, making
one able to use entirely different configuration settings for each
personality. At least this is how it's implemented in Pegasus. There would
be no such ability with virtual folders. You would still have separate
accounts with messages stored elsewhere. You would not be able to assign
multiple pop servers to the same account.
A good analog of what I'm talking about is the search facility.
You may search across accounts using TB!'s search facility. The matching
messages are displayed *together*. Although they are displayed together,
they have not been moved. You hit reply to one and it uses the settings of
the account and folder in which it really resides.
Virtual folders will give you the ability to display messages in
this way but in a lasting fashion.
I would love if I could display all new, unread messages, to all
folders except those to TBUDL and other mailing lists using one virtual
folder. I could then manage them in a central location although they have
already been filtered to their intended locations. This is a desire I have
even with my main account which uses one e-mail address. To simulate this,
I created a temporary holding folder and then apply read or replied
message filters to the messages that are filtered to this folder. I have
to filter the messages twice. All this could be done using a virtual
folder who's simple parameters would be to display new messages in folders
a, b, c, d.... in may main account etc. This is not the same as
personalities.
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