March 25, 2006 at 3:11AM My ideal email client
Here’s an excerpt from a mail I sent to the TDD list as part of an offtopic thread on what mail clients we use. I use Thunderbird for non-work-related mail, and I’m pretty happy with it, but it’s still not quite right. I decided to have a bit of a moan about how my ideal client should work. Here’s what I wrote:
I wish there was a mail client out there that eschewed the whole concept of labels and folders and replaced them with tags and views, where emails could have multiple tags and views would would be listings of emails with certain tags applied (or not) to them and other filtering criteria. Just store everything in one big DB and use tags and email headers to identify unread mail, unsent mail, trash, spam, archived mail, sent mail, mail to certain lists, from certain people, whether the email should be referred to later, &c.
Oh, well...
Now, if somebody was to write a mail client like that, I’d switch to it immediately.
1 On March 28, 2006 at 17:42, Karen wrote:
Hey Keith,
I dunno if you heard the Letters to America podcast from a while back where they mentioned you....and then mentioned me..in a kinda single single, datey datey kinda way? Well anyway, due to unforseen technical reasons (such as my laptop actually flipping over to die and refusing to download anything) I’ve only listened to it there now, so I thought I’d pop over and say hi in case you thought I was being a rude bitch. Dontcha just love the LTA guys? I don’t know about you, but I’m not AT ALL mortified by what they said (eh, that was a joke by the way). But anyway, I thought I’d say hi anyway. If you haven’t listened to the podcast, you should, it’s funny and you get an honourary award! Cheers Karen Ps Does this message make me sound really really desperate? Ah well, too late now!
2 On March 29, 2006 at 16:05, Steve Crooks wrote:
Isn’t that pretty much exactly how the Opera mail reader works? I don’t use it myself, so I could be wrong, but the few times I’ve played with it that seems to be how it operates.
3 On April 15, 2006 at 4:58, Keith wrote:
This comment’s part test, part biscuit.![[smile]](/images/smilies/smile.gif)
I haven’t checked out Opera’s mail reader in a few years. Last time I looked, it was still folder-based, but seeing as I have a copy of it sitting on my machine for testing purposes, I’ll check it out.
4 On April 15, 2006 at 5:15, Keith wrote:
CF sucks. It mangles my bloody headers and won’t let me use HTTP properly. Back to the old comments code, it appears...![[sad]](/images/smilies/sad.gif)
5 On April 15, 2006 at 5:20, Keith wrote:
So much for trying the whole HTTP POST and redirect thing. It might have worked were I not also trying to set cookies. God, I hate CF5 with such a passion now.