[pmmail-list] PMMail neat features (WAS: "PMM2TB: Conversion to Thunderbird")

[Guillaume Gay]

Bonjour Steve,

On 2005-01-17 at 12:34:52, you wrote:
>Actually PMMail does support this "CannedReplies" are not just available
>as replies but when creating new messages and forwarding also. 
Yes, I prefectly know this.   I even just used one to reply to your mail. 
(;-)  I have #30 canned replies in each of my accounts. Not very easy to 
manage in a contextual menu even at a 1600x1200 resolution, though.

[ I reported a bug here years ago : the $cursor$ variable does not
  place the cursor at a "relative" position as it should do.  PMMail
  starts counting at the beginning of the message instead of doing
  it at the position the canned reply has been inserted.
  Very annoying. ] 

I would have liked to be able Drag'n'drop a template message that would 
contain all the things I predefined, changing the variables to their values 
and - eventually - ask for some custom fields in it to change by 
hand.  I would just have to press the "send" button at the end.  I guess 
this is pretty much like what ThunderBird offers, without the variables. 

Now I think of this, I could make Describe write an ASCII MSG file in the 
"Draft" folder of my main account. 

>On the contrary, I think if it were released open source (with both the
>win and os/2 version available) I think there would be a lot of interest
>in it (because of it's features and possibilities) and probably quite
>a few willing to work on it.
I doubt there will be that many programmers to work on it as soon as it's 
released.  Understanding the code, optimizing it and still keeping it 
cross-platform (I'd really like to keep on using it on OS/2-eCS) is a 
pretty tough work.  Peter Nielsen should know how difficult it is.  I would 
be pessimistic, but... 

Anyway, even if the files are still not available, there's a forum and/or 
bugtracker opened on SourceForge.net ("currently down for maintenance").  
Everyone can contribute. 

Have a nice day. 

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