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Luke Andrews started following the idea "Keyword Monitoring and Search" in CoTweet.

Luke Andrews replied on November 20, 2009 21:00 to the idea "More keyboard shortcuts" in Postbox, Inc.:

I'd still love to see proper keyboard shortcuts for dialog boxes on OS X. These are supported by most OS X software. (Cmd key plus first letter of the button label, e.g. Cmd-D for Don't Save.)

Mostly I just want to be able to close and abandon a new message window without having to use my mouse. :)

Luke Andrews replied on November 12, 2009 22:56 to the problem "Postbox never threads replies from Microsoft Exchange clients" in Postbox, Inc.:

I would pay extra money for you to fix this. Please.

Luke Andrews replied on November 04, 2009 22:48 to the question "Postbox is consuming a lot of memory" in Postbox, Inc.:

Running 1.1b1, memory usage has stabilized around 430 MB. So no real improvement there.

Luke Andrews replied on October 27, 2009 14:55 to the question "Postbox is consuming a lot of memory" in Postbox, Inc.:

After using the test build for a couple days, my usage is up to 418 MB of real RAM. This is slightly better than 1.0.1, but not much. I have a lot of IMAP mail, so I'm not shocked, but I do find it a little funny that my email program is routinely the biggest RAM hog on my computer even compared to software like Photoshop. :)

A comment on the question "Quickly change To: to Cc: (or other prefixes) fields" in Postbox, Inc.:

Shift-tab doesn't work for me at least. This may be system-specific though. I'm using OS X. – Luke Andrews, on October 02, 2009 19:45

Luke Andrews replied on October 02, 2009 19:39 to the problem "Postbox never threads replies from Microsoft Exchange clients" in Postbox, Inc.:

Bueller?

Luke Andrews replied on September 21, 2009 14:53 to the problem "Postbox never threads replies from Microsoft Exchange clients" in Postbox, Inc.:

This is killing me softly... I regularly converse with someone who uses Exchange and every single message he writes is kept separate. I also don't see any obvious hidden preference. If I search for thread, there's:

mail.correct_threading (set to true)
mail.strict_threading (set to false)
mail.thread_without_re (set to false)

Luke Andrews replied on September 20, 2009 21:45 to the question "How do I reply to a message using a template that I've saved?" in Postbox, Inc.:

When I tried to install QuickText 0.9.9.9, the version on the Thunderbird extensions site, it says it's not compatible with Postbox 1.0.0, but the beta version on this page (0.9.10.0) works.

Luke Andrews replied on September 17, 2009 03:44 to the idea "More keyboard shortcuts" in Postbox, Inc.:

I tried Nostalgy and also found it both buggy and unsatisfying. IIRC, I didn't like the default shortcuts because they interfered with others, but when I changed them the help messages weren't updated.

The shortcut to last filed folder is all right, but I wish it remembered a separate mailbox for each account -- I have two separate IMAP accounts, and I would basically never move mail from one account to the other, so I constantly have to check and make sure the folder I last used is actually one from the current account.

All in all, I strongly support Sherman's suggestion.

Luke Andrews marked one of Sherman's replies in Postbox, Inc. as useful. Sherman replied to the idea "More keyboard shortcuts".

Luke Andrews shared an idea in Postbox, Inc. on September 16, 2009 16:39:

More keyboard shortcuts

Here's a vote for expanded keyboard shortcuts. In particular, I'd like to be able to move messages to another mailbox without touching the mouse and/or define a shortcut for moving mail to a particular mailbox.

Postbox would also do well to support conventional keyboard shortcuts on dialog boxes on OS X. Generally in dialog boxes on OS X, you can press CMD-[x] to activate the button where X is the first letter of the button label. For example, CMD-D would activate the "Don't Save" Button in the Save Message dialog when you close an unsaved message.

Luke Andrews replied on August 19, 2009 20:38 to the problem "Postbox never threads replies from Microsoft Exchange clients" in Postbox, Inc.:

DId you ever find anything?

I'm still having this problem, and still finding it irritating.

Luke Andrews replied on August 13, 2009 14:26 to the problem "Thread Summary View Does Not Auto-Update when New Message Arrives" in Postbox, Inc.:

I agree; the present solution of "Click Update" feels cumbersome to me.

Luke Andrews reported a problem in Postbox, Inc. on August 12, 2009 15:15:

Double-clicking the last word to select it picks up a hidden space as well

This may be OS X specific, and it's a pretty obscure problem, but here goes: when you double-click the last word of a line of text in an email, and there is no punctuation after the last word, the selection includes an invisible space that gets picked up if you Copy the selection and Paste somewhere else.

I only found this out after a maddening few minutes where I couldn't figure out why the password someone had given me wasn't working in one instance, but was in another.

The "layout.word_select.eat_space_to_next_word" setting has no effect on this behaviour.

I also believe this only affects plain-text messages.

Luke Andrews replied on July 10, 2009 15:29 to the problem "Postbox doesn't show the new messages badge if the messages are in currently highlighted inbox" in Postbox, Inc.:

Further update: as far as I can tell, only one of my two IMAP accounts exhibits this problem. I have two Gmail accounts, but one is a Google-for-corporate-domain and that's the one that has the problem. Not sure if that's related somehow.

A comment on the problem "Postbox doesn't show the new messages badge if the messages are in currently highlighted inbox" in Postbox, Inc.:

This is IMAP, yes.

It's not that the messages aren't fetched -- they're there already. It's that the account name doesn't show the number of new messages, and the dock icon doesn't have a badge. It seems like Postbox is frozen until I click on something besides whatever is currently highlighted. (It doesn't have to be a different mailbox as I said before -- even clicking another message is sufficient.) – Luke Andrews, on July 08, 2009 14:13

Luke Andrews reported a problem in Postbox, Inc. on July 07, 2009 23:52:

Postbox doesn't show the new messages badge if the messages are in currently highlighted inbox

With b13, I'm finding that I'm rarely alerted about new messages. The dock icon doesn't change, and the number beside my mailbox also doesn't change. What I've found is that I have to "kick" Postbox by switching to a *different* mailbox for it to notice the new mail, change the number and add the dock badge.

Luke Andrews reported a problem in Postbox, Inc. on June 26, 2009 15:43:

Postbox never threads replies from Microsoft Exchange clients

Microsoft Exchange changes the Thread-Index header on each message, which confuses Postbox into thinking each reply is a new thread. I believe it uses the In-Reply-To header instead to link a reply to a particular message.

It would be nice if Postbox could deal with this somehow, either by falling back to Subject threading, or supporting Exchange's proprietary threading system.

Luke Andrews replied on May 25, 2009 15:18 to the question "How do I reply to a message using a template that I've saved?" in Postbox, Inc.:

It's basically just a text snippet. It would be useful if you could have a "Reply with template" action that inserted the template message body as a reply.