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What features do you wish Mail.app had?
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flagged mail should be way more prominent than mail's little red flag and outlooks little star thing. i think flagged mail should be at the top of the list and highlighted, or at least have an option to do this. wait mail can sort like that. cool. well they should still be more obvious.
Make those groups in Address Book, then you can access them from Mail. You can either click the little Address button on new messages and choose from the groups or even just type the group name into the To: field (or rather the Bcc: field, but that's another thread) to send the message to all those in that group.dandrums said:
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The strength of Address Book, as "a completely different App", is that the data you put in there are accessible from other apps on your Mac, e.g. if you have added home pages you can get them up in Safari, you can send invitations to iCal events to contacts, most IM programs have some form of Address Book integration, etc.dandrums said:
To have all those data just in Mail would be a complete waste...
One thing they could do, though, is to make the Address Book button on new messages a combo button, where a click gets up the Addresses the way they do today, while press and hold gives you a drop down meny with the adresses ordered into the different groups...
the ability to send HTML e-mails would be great. maybe more robust filtering and more options for search (it's a bit clunky adding criteria). otherwise i'm really happy with Mail - easy to use, reliable, good junk filter.
A simple out of office assistant that you can just click on, rather than one you have to devise yourself with 'rules'.
I accidently applied mine to inlbox and sent a blank out of office to every mail in my inbox for the last 2 weeks.
I was mortified! (Idiot)
I accidently applied mine to inlbox and sent a blank out of office to every mail in my inbox for the last 2 weeks.
I was mortified! (Idiot)
Go wash your mouth!superfunkomatic said:
...æh... or rather your fingers or whatever you were typing that with...
Mitthrawnuruodo said:
dont do complicated crap like that. i know that if my mum wanted to use a mail client and had to click a different way on the new message button depending on who shes emailing, she would get frustrated and go back to apple mail. i would too. just click the button then type the first 3 letters of the name or group. thats so easy and simple dont mush it up with special clicks and menus.
I didn't say I wanted them to do this, I think that is unnecessary and would probably make Mail much slower when you want to make a new message. I just offered a possible (albeit undesirable) solution...chaos86 said:
Mitch1984 said:
yea, at this point i have no desire to try to maintain a plugin or something for any of the web based email clients. i'd honestly recommend you switch to gmail or yahoo (and pay for the pop access).
hotmail is one of the worst webmail systems i've seen. so bad in fact i stopped using it a good 6 years ago
DXoverDY said:
Take your pick from the features that KMail has (http://kmail.kde.org/).
On second thought, just port KMail to OSX
Your wish may come through sooner than you think: Read Hotmail with Mail.appMitch1984 said:
But why not get rid of hotmail and get a nice GMail account...?
iMeowbot said:
I think that people are talking about creating HTML messages in the sense that they have backgrounds and inline images and so on. Mail 2 still uses Plain and Rich text -- it views, but does not create HTML mail -- it will show some images inline, but not in a way that shows them consistently across platforms like HTML mail does.
Which is probably a good thing in a lot of ways, as others have said.
I'd like to see speed improvements. I still get these effects of clicking on mailboxes and not being able to access the mail, or not being able to immediately read new mail from an IMAP account.
Also, I'd like to see rules that can be applied to messages in other places than the Inbox -- for instance, I'd like to be able to apply rules to the sent mail boxes and have messages that appear there moved elsewhere.
I'd like better support for Groupwise, although I'm 95% sure that the fault is more/all on Groupwise's side rather than on Apple's side, because many of the issues also appear on my WM5 Axim. Messages from certain senders don't get transferred through IMAP or POP, attachments do not survive the jump out of Groupwise, and if they do, their names and MIME types are messsed up, etc, etc.
Extend the idea of the iChat hook-in to support something like Adium and users from a variety of IM services (so that you can see if people who e-mail you are also online, and then IM them if you want, from within Mail).
Inline images work, and you can even drag in tables. Backgrounds would be about the only major gimmick missing.mkrishnan said:
That's not correct, Mail 2 uses HTML for sending. This was an advertised new feature in Tiger: "Mail uses the Safari engine to format newly composed email using HTML." Try sending yourself a message with bold or whatever, then looking at the raw source.
groupwise is on the list but i'm slightly doubting it'll be supported due to it's err issues. but i won't rule it out, but it won't be supported right away.
speed issues with imap are network related i'd imagine. i plan to cache all messages on the users computer, there may be a delay of sorts on new messages, but due to the caching it should make 50,000 message mailboxes load no slower than a mailbox with 10 messages.
speed issues with imap are network related i'd imagine. i plan to cache all messages on the users computer, there may be a delay of sorts on new messages, but due to the caching it should make 50,000 message mailboxes load no slower than a mailbox with 10 messages.
DXoverDY said:
No, the speed issue is a Mail-specific one that others have mentioned too -- there are pauses of a kind that don't occur when using other apps. And didn't really seem to be an issue during Panther, either. The messages load, and say they're new, and then if you click on them, rather than showing you the text, there is a "loading" graphic that appears in the preview pane and lasts for an unreasonably long time, compared to the download time for the same message off the same server in another application. It doesn't seem like everyone has this issue, though...which is strange.
As for the HTML issue, okay, I stand corrected, but in the menus for my copy of Mail (v. 2.05 / Build 746.2), the only options are rich and plain text. And Mail's help system has no entry for creating html mail that I can see. What am I missing? Not that I even want the feature! But I think the things you are describing, iMeowBot, are rich text and not HTML features.
The menus and help still call it "rich text" but under the covers it saves as HTML now. Objects like images, files and tables can be dragged into the composition window and the required table, image, etc. tags are inserted. To get files inserted inline, it uses multipart/mixed with separate HTML sections. There is a way to get images truly inline in HTMl mail, but lots of clients choke on that so Apple chose to split it up.mkrishnan said:
Pre-Tiger Mail, old versions of Eudora and Pine did all use the text/enriched format described in RFC 1896, but Tiger Mail does not compose messages in that format. It uses HTML.