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bimplebean replied on September 03, 2009 01:08 to the question "Attachments problem" in Postbox:

I see that as well, both in my inbox and in my sent mail folder. That last one gave me a start, lemme tell you, when I saw an email to one person with attachments I had sent to another! I restarted Postbox and the problem went away. Still, heart attack time!

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bimplebean replied on August 31, 2009 16:24 to the problem "Wrong email contents being displayed" in Postbox:

I get this information as well in GMail IMAP messages from a certain sender. When I click on a message I see what looks like style sheet information. It looks like this:

strong, b, a, h3, h1, h2 {
color: #006699;
}
td {
font: 12px Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;
}
.table {
border: 1px solid #CCC;
margin-bottom: 8px;
}
.tr {
background: #FFFFFF;
}

.voice,
.onetwothree,
.dotcom
{
display: none;
}
.bullet{
font-family: Small Fonts;
color: #000;
}
.xsmall {
font: 10px Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;
}

.topLnk a:link,
.topLnk a:visited{
font-weight:bold;
text-decoration: none;
font-size: 11px;
}
.topLnk a:hover{
color: #FF9900;
font-weight:bold;
text-decoration: underline;
}

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bimplebean gave praise in Postbox on August 30, 2009 17:07:

spam preview

I LOVE how I can see the list of spam emails in my gmail spam folder without previewing ANY of them. I can see the list, press Ctrl+A to select them all and Del to DELETE them all, withhout viewing ANY of the content.

VERY VERY NICE.

bimplebean replied on August 30, 2009 16:35 to the idea "Pick Email Recipients from a Contact List" in Postbox:

Okay, I see it now.

Sadly, this fails the 'discoverability' test, in my humble opinion. I was unable to discover this on my own. I have been using computers for 30 years now, Windows for 20, and lately it seems like many software developers -- especially Microsoft -- are abandoning many user interface conventions. Menu accelerators are hidden -- sometimes the menus themselves are hidden! Buttons look like pictures, not buttons... etc .etc.

In this case I had examined all menus. Nowhere did I find any 'pick contacts from your address book' type of entry. I saw no buttons in the addressee section that looked relevant. The button you mention doesn't even look like a button - so it didn't even register to me. It was 'not easily discoverable.'

IMHO every function that is available to a user on any given screen should *at least* be available in a menu.

I am at least glad this functionality does exist, and now I know to explore those buttons on the right. Thanks.

bimplebean shared an idea in Postbox on August 30, 2009 16:28:

Pick Email Recipients from a Contact List

When sending email to multiple contacts in my address book, I don't see any way to 'pick from a list.' For each intended recipient, I have to know their name.

In Outlook/Windows Live Mail, I can call up a list of contacts and check/select each one I want to send to, and whether they're a To:, Cc: or Bcc. I'd really recommend using a similar approach in Postbox.

Barry Seymour replied on July 12, 2009 06:28 to the idea "auto-populate topics with gmail labels" in Postbox:

I'm totally on board with this. Labels in GMail are the same, philosophically, as topics in Postbox.

What, is there some shortcoming or hidden features in the Google API that prevent Postbox from implementing this?

Barry Seymour replied on July 07, 2009 23:20 to the problem "Couldn't install the Soocial Outlook sync client on windows 7" in Soocial:

Solved, but hopefully you'll create a Win7 compatible installer.

Barry Seymour replied on July 03, 2009 17:39 to the question "Where'd the GMail Spam Folder go?" in Postbox:

I deleted my answer by mistake as well -- just a fumbly day for me -- so I'll repeat the solution here. GMail has a Labs feature that lets you show/hide folders in IMAP. I have activated that feature. However I accidentally unchecked the SPAM folder so it did not show up in PostBox. I re-checked that folder, restarted PostBox and it reappeared.

Everything is working as it should, except for my brain.

Barry Seymour asked a question in Postbox on July 03, 2009 16:05:

Where'd the GMail Spam Folder go?

Where did the GMAIL Spam folder go? I thought it was displayed but just now I got some spam and could not find it to move it there. I had to load the web interface to mark the mail as spam.

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Barry Seymour replied on June 22, 2009 22:30 to the idea "Keyboard Shortcut to Expand/Collapse grouped messages" in Postbox:

Hey, never mind. I found that you already have it. I was expecting the plus or minus keys, but the right and left arrow keys do the trick.

Never mind!

Barry Seymour shared an idea in Postbox on June 20, 2009 17:39:

Keyboard Shortcut to Expand/Collapse grouped messages

When in the message list, if I'm on a set of grouped messages, a keyboard shortcut to expand/collapse the group would be nice. Perhaps the numeric plus and minus keys?

I do a lot of stuff via keyboard- this would be a big time saver for me.

Barry Seymour reported a problem in Postbox on June 18, 2009 21:35:

Keyboard Shortcut problem/question

This is minor, but I have problems with tabbing between fields.

Create a new email
Type an address into the To: Field.
Hit Tab to go to the subject line and enter a subject
Hit Tab again to go to the body of the message.
Hit SHIFT-TAB to go BACKWARDS to the subject line. It doesn't work. You have to hit Shift-Tab a second time to get back to the subject line.

Barry Seymour reported a problem in Postbox on June 18, 2009 21:35:

Keyboard Shortcut problem/question

This is minor, but I have problems with tabbing between fields.

Create a new email
Type an address into the To: Field.
Hit Tab to go to the subject line and enter a subject
Hit Tab again to go to the body of the message.
Hit SHIFT-TAB to go BACKWARDS to the subject line. It doesn't work. You have to hit Shift-Tab a second time to get back to the subject line.

Barry Seymour replied on June 18, 2009 21:34 to the idea "Keyboard shortcut and new messages" in Postbox:

I Agree -- I don't like having to go back to the address and use the mouse to designate an addressee as cc or bcc.

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Barry Seymour replied on June 17, 2009 00:50 to the idea "Some UI Suggestions" in Postbox:

See how important I am? As soon as I ask for something, I get it! [g]

Barry

bimplebean replied on June 16, 2009 22:30 to the idea "Some UI Suggestions" in Postbox:

Another question/thought: It seemed to me that OE/WLM spend a lot of time downloading other IMAP folders in the background - really slows things up. I like that Postbox doesn't download a folder until you select it, and stops when you leave. (At least, I THINK that's how it works.)

However, is there a way to say "download these folders in the background at a very low priority and/or only when I'm not busy?" It'd be nice to have that happen if I leave PB open and walk away for a while - then searching and indexing would be more complete.

I have about 40gb of mail in my GMail IMAP folders, going back ten years! I'm probably a good test case for something... [g]

Thanks!