Wish List Update #1

Ralph Cohen pmmail@rpglink.com
Fri, 17 Dec 1999 02:59:53 -0500 (EST)


I've tried to go through all the suggestions so far and pick out only
those that don't already appear in either my list or Jimmy's list. 
Please let me know what I've missed or duplicated.

Thanks,

Ralph Cohen

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On Wed, 15 Dec 1999 23:55:00 -0800 (PST), Atomic Frog wrote:

>(I didn't see this one on the list, but I could be blind)
>- Right mouse button pop-up menu doesn't work unless you have a Canned
>Reply defined for the account.

Yep.  That one is new to the latest release.

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On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 09:16:09 +0100 (CET), Jens Berg wrote:

>
>- An "edit as new" for mails that already have been sent. Should open an edit 
>window with the header information (To, CC, Subject) filled out and the 
>original mail body. Optionally either remove signature or suppress appending 
>the signature again, when the mail is sent.
>

Noted.

>- Make LDAP work

Is it broken?  How?

>
>- Add the ability to select more than one addressee at once in the RMB pop up 
>address book (e.g. bei keeping Ctrl key pressed)

Noted.

>
>- Build in sorting function for RMB pop up address book
>

Noted.

>- Ability to modify the "On <Date>, <Name> wrote:" phrase, that is added when 
>replying to a mail
>

Noted

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On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 12:03:13 +1000 (EST), John Angelico wrote:

>
>>BUG 01:
>>Stalled POP Retrievals - POP retrievals sometimes stall and when they 
>>do, PMMail should recognize the situation and cause a new Fetch cycle 
>>to run.
>
>Add a graceful resume - if a downloaded message exactly matches an
>existing message, offer to REPLACE the existing message (or discard
>the new message) AND add a menu option "Resume Download with
>automatic replacement of exact matches"

Noted.

>>F14: 
>>Allow the drag and drop of subfolders to other folders.
>
>Including Root folders and including drop to other ACCOUNTS, please.

Noted.

>>F23:
>>Provide the ability to purge attachments while retaining messages, 
>>and new list view symbol to indicate that a message's attachment(s) 
>>have been deleted.
>
>Further to this one:
>1) Make sure please that we can use this facility on all existing
>mail too.
>2) Make it a "Selected Attachments" option ie purge attachments from
>a) only the highlighted message/s AND b) the entire open folder.
>3) Include Purge in the Save to... RMB popups as both a) "Save to
>Desktop & Purge" AND b) "Purge The Selected Attachment/s"
>
>I am looking at this from the OS/2 side, of course.
>

Noted.

>>F26:
>>Provide clickable column headers in PMMail/2 to sort contents of 
>>folders (like in PMMail 98).
>
>And what about multi-column sorting? Or am I asking for the entire
>galaxy here?

Yeah, but what the heck.<g>  Noted.

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On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 15:45:03 +0200, Cristian Secara wrote:

>>1. Support for ""Send to"" from within MSOffice Apps. 
>>PMM works as expected when using the "Send to""
>>from the pop-up within the windows shell, but when I 
>>try and send something from within an Office (97) 
>>application I need to fire up Outlook Express, set it as my 
>>default email client.... RESTART my office app, then send 
>>the file then go into the outlook config and uncheck the 
>>default settings, refire up pmmail and accept it as my default
>> again
>
>I am using Lotus SmartSuite and the same applies here.
>The problem is that PMMail is not MAPI compliant.
>
>A MAPI compatible application (like MS Office or LSS) sends a request
>to a MAPI server, that should be part of the mail program. Eudora, for
>example, includes a MAPI server.
>
>Conclusion: change request no.1 with something like "Support for MAPI
>compatible applications".
>

Noted.

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On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 10:55:50 -0800 (PST), Jay Gibberman wrote:

>A minor feature I would like to see is for Remote Control.
>I would like a "mark all for download" and a "mark all for
>delete" rather than having a two step process.
>

Noted.

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