Comments on: Innovative email client design: Thinking outside the Outlook box

By: sjk

sjk — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:52:25 +0000

No, I’m disagreeing with how “spam problem” is defined.

By: Jeff Flowers

Jeff Flowers — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:49:18 +0000

In regards to threading, Mail.app seems limited to two options: turning it on and off, and collapsing/expanding threads. Is there a way in Mail.app to reorder emails in a thread, or specially add and delete emails to a particular thread?

Actually, does any current Mac or Unix email client you know of allow this?

By: Tony Meyer

Tony Meyer — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 09:52:37 +0000

You’re saying that if technology is useful for processing non-junk email it is by definition unsatisfactory for solving the spam problem? That’s a pretty limited point of view.

By: sjk

sjk — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 07:41:05 +0000

The hope of many in the anti-spam community is that once the spam problem is solved enough to make spending more time on it inefficient, the same technology can be used to process non-junk email.

I’m not satisfiedÂ with a limited definition of the spam problemÂ that believes itÂ will be “solved enough” by anti-spam technology like you’re referring to.

By: ClearContext Corporate Weblog

ClearContext Corporate Weblog — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 07:02:49 +0000

How Researchers are Reinventing the Mail Client…

Gabor Cselle has posted an overview of several different approaches researchers have taken to re-designing email, breaking it down into three categories: task driven email, smart email organization structures, and cool features. It’s always interestin…

By: Tony Meyer

Tony Meyer — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 05:24:20 +0000

The hope of many in the anti-spam community is that once the spam problem is solved enough to make spending more time on it inefficient, the same technology can be used to process non-junk email.

POPfile [http://popfile.sf.net], for example, can filter spam, but the real value is that it can filter mail into user-defined categories. Even better than this would be a filter that doesn’t need the user to define categories (auto-categorisation is done in plenty of statistical work), and that tagged rather than filtered. This is only the start of what can be done.

By: denny

denny — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 17:19:24 +0000

very interesting… but it makes my head hurt! i like the green to read task/deadline tracker. but thinking about mail as a component of tasks, while it makes sense, it’s a turn around. something i’ve been doing lately which is similar to this utilizes the already existing power of tiger.

my project manager is spotlight. i keep a spotlight search open at all times. every project gets a keyword combo the day i start it. every single file, email, ical task, contact (via the notes field) gets this keyword… examples of current projects: valeriejune, truestorypictures, dandee. if i type in any of those into my already open spotlight window (project manager window as i’ve come to think of it) i get all associated emails, contacts, ical events/todos, files, folders… all of it. in a second. so sweet.

the only down side of this is one little ical/spotlight bug. all ical events/todos, in the spotlight window, show up with “No Date” as their date. Ideally I want to be able to filter my find with today, yesterday, this week, etc. and not loose my ical objects. as it is now i have to show all dates because as soon as i filter for a date the “No Date” status of ical objects makes them disappear.

in any case, spotlight as project manager, is quite powerful assuming you consistently tag. i’ve found that now that it is my workflow the tagging is easy and immediate thanks to mailtags and quicksilver’s “set comment” function for files.

By: Marten

Marten — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 15:53:09 +0000

GNUMail does those threading arcs:

http://www.collaboration-world.com/gnumail.data/screenshots/v1.2.0pre1/gnumail-osx.png