Comments on: A modest Leopard Mail wish-list

By: Jennings

Jennings — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:54:53 +0000

Hey Lee,
I would HIGHLY recommend Vienna. It’s open-source and freeware, it can handle a ton of subscriptions (I have around 350) and you can organize and search, set up drilled-down smartboxes and customize the layout:
http://www.opencommunity.co.uk/vienna2.php

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:05:20 +0000

I would love to see some sort of RSS organization. I subscribe to a lot of feeds, and right now they’re all listed separately.

If only I could organize them into categories like sports, CSS, SEO, design etc

By: Ralph

Ralph — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 22:21:34 +0000

* iTunes like interface for searching — if you have a message, say, from “Steve Jobs”, there would be an arrow next to it like in iTunes. Click on it and it will show all emails from Steve Jobs. Option-click on it and it will show only messages in that mailbox from Steve Jobs. Shift-opt-click will show all messages sent *to* Steve Jobs.

* Do the same thing in a smart subject line search (i.e., Mail.app would know to ignore FWD, RE and all that mess).

Beyond that I’m pretty happy. :)

By: MacPomme

MacPomme — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:13:25 +0000

I think, well hope, that the next “killer-app” will be someone who completely forgets the paradigm we’ve been using for email clients. The 3 or 4 pane display of folders, lists, mail text etc is, in my opinion, hackneyed and been done to death by everyone from Microsoft, to Apple, Mozilla, Eudora etc etc.

In terms of look, feel and use - there is little significant difference between any of the popular email clients.

For most of us, I would guess that email is one of our most used applications, along with a browser. I just can’t see that the lack of innovation in the look, feel and use means that what we are working with today is the “ideal” paradigm for an email client.

With features such as Core Animation, Video, Graphics now a feature of OS X and Vista - surely someone can do us all a favour and do a new email client front end altogether. Apple is trying something new with Time Machine (and I’m not saying it is “right” only that it’s innovative) - please someone save us from email clients!!!!

$0.02c

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:41:52 +0000

Some wishes, none of which is likely to come about:

* improved support for IMAP;
* the ability to subscribe to chosen IMAP folders;
* better feedback in the interface, so that one doesn’t have to keep the “Activity Viewer” open;
* local mailboxes (including the Outbox) that always show, not “intelligently” appear and disappear according to whether they have contents or not;
* PGP support would be nice;
* those horrible ugly buttons that are inconsistent with every other application should go.

By: Pietro

Pietro — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:36:35 +0000

I got a few wishes and fixes too:

fixes:
- address book panel doesn’t search for nicknames
- smart mailboxes don’t get refreshed: I have to select another smart mailboxes and then come back (well, maybe this just happen to me, I haven’t read of anyone else having this problem)

wishes:
- in the mailboxes list, a counter for all the messages that are in each mailbox, not only for the unread mails.
- the ability to set, in the message list, different columns for different mailboxes.
- more rules options!
- templates, which you can set as default for certain recipients or mailboxes.

bye :-)

By: Colin D. Devroe

Colin D. Devroe — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:05:44 +0000

I’m glad we agree on some of the things Tim. Its good to see that I’m not alone with some of my wishes. Hopefully, as my wish list continues, you’ll find other things too that you agree with.

Thanks for the link!