[MlMt] mailmate Digest, Vol 47, Issue 11

[Shoshanna Green]

On 2/10/15 12:00 PM, mailmate-request at lists.freron.com wrote:
> On 10 Feb 2015, at 15:19, Shoshanna Green wrote:

>> I'm currently using Thunderbird, and MailMate looks amazing, but...
>> I rely on TBird's ShowInOut extension
>> <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/addon/show-inout/>
>> to let me tidily keep incoming and outgoing mail in the same
>> folder, listing the sender for all incoming mail, and the recipient
>> for all outgoing mail, in a "Correspondent" column.

> What is the meaning of the number of arrows?

I think they differentiate between messages sent to (or from) just the 
user, or the user and others, or a mailing list. That's unnecessary and 
way too cluttered for me, though. ShowInOut makes the images 
user-controllable (if you're comfortable editing the userChrome file, 
which I am); I just put a png image of "to: " before messages I send, 
which makes it very easy for me to scan the columns and know what my 
correspondence looks like. Here's a pic:

<https://www.dropbox.com/s/qz5189kqxztdgp8/correspondent.tiff?dl=0>

(My eye does prefer having no mark on the messages I send; it makes the 
difference between from-me and to-me stand out.)

> I cannot give you a time frame, but it's both a useful and interesting
> general feature. That makes it more likely to be implemented :-)

I would probably buy a MailMate license the day you implemented this :-)

-- 
Shoshanna Green
shoshannag at gmail.com