Comments on: One thing Thunderbird and Mail.app can’t do http://www.hawkwings.net/2007/02/14/one-thing-thunderbird-and-mailapp-cant-do/ Tips and add-ons to make Apple Mail / Mail.app even better Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:45:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Eric Carroll http://www.hawkwings.net/2007/02/14/one-thing-thunderbird-and-mailapp-cant-do/#comment-90251 Eric Carroll Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:19:39 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2007/02/14/one-thing-thunderbird-and-mailapp-cant-do/#comment-90251 http://asthmaticavenger.com/siteimages/ichatleo.jpg Whoops thought I would be able to imbed this image in the last comment... http://asthmaticavenger.com/siteimages/ichatleo.jpg

Whoops thought I would be able to imbed this image in the last comment…

]]> By: Eric Carroll http://www.hawkwings.net/2007/02/14/one-thing-thunderbird-and-mailapp-cant-do/#comment-90250 Eric Carroll Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:19:04 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2007/02/14/one-thing-thunderbird-and-mailapp-cant-do/#comment-90250 I was having a similar discussion, I think over at MacAddict.com and whipped up this conceptual rendering when we were discussing that fact that Apple's "label" feature should be present in pretty much every application especially Apple Applications that have or deal with lists(Address Book, iChat, Mail, and so on). Some Apps already have it; Apple Remote Desktop, for example, lets you "label" a client any of the colors you can label a folder. I think you should be able to label addresses in Address Book, Folders in Mail, and so on... For my rendering I used iChat, in which I would LOVE to be able to label "buddies"... I was having a similar discussion, I think over at MacAddict.com and whipped up this conceptual rendering when we were discussing that fact that Apple’s “label” feature should be present in pretty much every application especially Apple Applications that have or deal with lists(Address Book, iChat, Mail, and so on). Some Apps already have it; Apple Remote Desktop, for example, lets you “label” a client any of the colors you can label a folder. I think you should be able to label addresses in Address Book, Folders in Mail, and so on…

For my rendering I used iChat, in which I would LOVE to be able to label “buddies”…

]]> By: Gil Friend http://www.hawkwings.net/2007/02/14/one-thing-thunderbird-and-mailapp-cant-do/#comment-89203 Gil Friend Wed, 21 Feb 2007 06:20:28 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2007/02/14/one-thing-thunderbird-and-mailapp-cant-do/#comment-89203 What's _really_ missing is the ability to use rules to file attachments as well as messages. (Which Eudora can do.) What’s _really_ missing is the ability to use rules to file attachments as well as messages. (Which Eudora can do.)

]]> By: Bill Miller http://www.hawkwings.net/2007/02/14/one-thing-thunderbird-and-mailapp-cant-do/#comment-88519 Bill Miller Mon, 19 Feb 2007 22:35:00 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2007/02/14/one-thing-thunderbird-and-mailapp-cant-do/#comment-88519 Thank heavens it doesn't do that. Talk about f-ugly. Thank heavens it doesn’t do that. Talk about f-ugly.

]]> By: Jeppe K http://www.hawkwings.net/2007/02/14/one-thing-thunderbird-and-mailapp-cant-do/#comment-88366 Jeppe K Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:54:28 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2007/02/14/one-thing-thunderbird-and-mailapp-cant-do/#comment-88366 A pro pos folders and navigation in Thunderbird: There is an invaluable add-on for Thunderbird called Nostalgy that will help you get to your folders quickly. It doesn't use colours but rather lets you type ahead to get to your destination folder. You invoke it by pressing G (for "Go to") and begin typing the name of the folder you want to go to. Nostalgy homes in on search results as you type. The syntax also supports moving (S for save) and copying (C) selected messages between folders. https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2487/ A pro pos folders and navigation in Thunderbird:

There is an invaluable add-on for Thunderbird called Nostalgy that will help you get to your folders quickly. It doesn’t use colours but rather lets you type ahead to get to your destination folder.

You invoke it by pressing G (for “Go to”) and begin typing the name of the folder you want to go to. Nostalgy homes in on search results as you type.

The syntax also supports moving (S for save) and copying (C) selected messages between folders.

https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2487/

]]> By: Samatha http://www.hawkwings.net/2007/02/14/one-thing-thunderbird-and-mailapp-cant-do/#comment-86241 Samatha Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:37:37 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2007/02/14/one-thing-thunderbird-and-mailapp-cant-do/#comment-86241 YES! YES! YES! Give me the highlighted colored folders anyday. Great idea! YES! YES! YES! Give me the highlighted colored folders anyday. Great idea!

]]> By: Sigurdur Armannsson http://www.hawkwings.net/2007/02/14/one-thing-thunderbird-and-mailapp-cant-do/#comment-86195 Sigurdur Armannsson Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:43:39 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2007/02/14/one-thing-thunderbird-and-mailapp-cant-do/#comment-86195 Rough counting says that I have just over a hundred folders and subfolders. Personally I would not like to use color to categorize the folders. Instead I categorize by giving few folders a number prefix. Maybe someone would like to check this little system to make his/her own personal sorting: 01 Important category, (pick your own names) 02 Little less important 03 and so on... On the first of each month I have about 500 mails that I have not yet sorted, usually because I want to see related mails at glance (in the advertising business there is no way to keep an empty Inbox). Those monthly mails go into archive folders that I name like this as I split the archives into quarters: 2007 Q1.2007 Q2.2007 etc Then when and if I have a quiet moment I select all last years quarter folders, sort by sender and clean out those senders that have no meaning anymore or similar reasons. Finally I have a subfolder called Old Mails where I keep single mails I that I want to keep, but don't really fall into any category. My oldest mail dates from the year 1995. Rough counting says that I have just over a hundred folders and subfolders. Personally I would not like to use color to categorize the folders. Instead I categorize by giving few folders a number prefix. Maybe someone would like to check this little system to make his/her own personal sorting:

01 Important category, (pick your own names)
02 Little less important
03 and so on…

On the first of each month I have about 500 mails that I have not yet sorted, usually because I want to see related mails at glance (in the advertising business there is no way to keep an empty Inbox). Those monthly mails go into archive folders that I name like this as I split the archives into quarters:
2007
Q1.2007
Q2.2007 etc

Then when and if I have a quiet moment I select all last years quarter folders, sort by sender and clean out those senders that have no meaning anymore or similar reasons.

Finally I have a subfolder called Old Mails where I keep single mails I that I want to keep, but don’t really fall into any category. My oldest mail dates from the year 1995.

]]> By: Ben http://www.hawkwings.net/2007/02/14/one-thing-thunderbird-and-mailapp-cant-do/#comment-86148 Ben Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:33:53 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2007/02/14/one-thing-thunderbird-and-mailapp-cant-do/#comment-86148 The commenting timestamps aren't quite right. I meant to ditto to Adam Rice, who was the only commenter when I arrived (and no, I didn't load the page and then wait an hour before posting). The commenting timestamps aren’t quite right. I meant to ditto to Adam Rice, who was the only commenter when I arrived (and no, I didn’t load the page and then wait an hour before posting).

]]> By: subcorpus http://www.hawkwings.net/2007/02/14/one-thing-thunderbird-and-mailapp-cant-do/#comment-86123 subcorpus Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:37:50 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2007/02/14/one-thing-thunderbird-and-mailapp-cant-do/#comment-86123 i could use a plug-in like that ... i could use a plug-in like that …

]]> By: Ben http://www.hawkwings.net/2007/02/14/one-thing-thunderbird-and-mailapp-cant-do/#comment-86099 Ben Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:17:32 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/2007/02/14/one-thing-thunderbird-and-mailapp-cant-do/#comment-86099 Ditto. Ditto.

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