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A comment on the idea "Widescreen view (message content in its own column)." in Postbox:

Awesome! I love email clients that offer a vertical split for the preview. – James W, on February 04, 2009 23:48

James W started following the idea "Widescreen view (message content in its own column)." in Postbox.

James W shared an idea in Postbox on February 04, 2009 23:44:

Inspector photo preview

I see the image preview has been updated in 1.0b5 and it looks great, but there's a couple small things bugging me about it.

1) If I receive an email with a bunch of photos attached, I can't just click on different images to look at them. I have to first click out of the preview, then click on another photo. I tried double-clicking on the thumbnails, but that only counts as one click.

2) Also, I think many people would expect an X in the top corner of the preview to close the new window. Even some text across the bottom stating "click anywhere to close" might work. Some people are lost without a specific button or instruction to continue with.

James W replied on February 04, 2009 19:35 to the question "Change the dock badge color?" in Postbox:

The red would just be easier to read, too.

James W replied on February 04, 2009 19:23 to the idea "Growl integration should display a preview for the email" in Postbox:

I think the first few messages should be shown with the subject, sender, and their icon, which would bring up that specific message when clicked on. If there are more than 5, the rest could be condensed into a notification stating "and 6 more." which would take you to the inbox when clicked. I don't know if this is doable, but I think this would prevent filling the screen with notifications while still giving some detail.

James W replied on February 04, 2009 05:43 to the idea "auto-populate topics with gmail labels" in Postbox:

I like the idea, but I think this might be beyond the scope of Postbox as Gmail and Thunderbird store messages in entirely different ways. I wouldn't want multiple copies of every message cluttering my hard drive and slowing down searching.

I can't find any apps that try to work with Gmail's labels themselves, which leads me to believe it hasn't been easy to do and most users just use Gmail directly if they need labels that badly.

James W started following the idea "auto-populate topics with gmail labels" in Postbox.

James W started following the idea "Dragging files to the Postbox Dock Icon should start a new email with those files as attachments." in Postbox.

James W replied on February 04, 2009 04:25 to the idea "Attachments and images view" in Postbox:

Reminds me a lot of the Adblock plugin for Firefox which lets you filter out any element in the page. I don't know that I'd go as far as links, they're not hurting anything. But image signatures pollute the inspector and when trying to save all attachments.

James W started following the idea "Attachments and images view" in Postbox.

James W started following the question "Change the dock badge color?" in Postbox.

James W started following the idea "Growl integration should display a preview for the email" in Postbox.

James W replied on February 04, 2009 01:04 to the problem "Todo's not pinning to top" in Postbox:

The problem is with the inbox. I just tried another folder and it appears To-Do's do group at the top like they're supposed to there. However I spend most of my time in my inbox and file emails away once the task is complete.

I sort by date, but sorting by other columns doesn't appear to affect it.

James W reported a problem in Postbox on February 03, 2009 22:05:

Todo's not pinning to top

I'm just trying to integrate To-Do's into my workflow and I notice they aren't pinning to the top anymore. I remember they did when I first tried Postbox and I was checking out all the features. Now when I check and uncheck View > Pin To-Dos, nothing happens. I'm not sure if this is because I moved some columns around or what. I've tried with conversations shown and without. I'm using Gmail via IMAP.

James W replied on February 03, 2009 20:37 to the idea "Calendar integration and support in Postbox" in Postbox:

The only thing I would use a calendar for in an email program is reminding me to act on an email by a certain date. I always liked being able to flag emails in outlook and set a due date.

James W shared an idea in Postbox on January 30, 2009 19:21:

Dock badge ignoring when messages become marked read on the server

Please make the dock badge update when messages are marked as read by the server.

I access my gmail account from several places, including imap in Postbox which I leave open 24/7. If I read a message in one place it is of course marked read on the server, which Postbox reflects in the message list. However the dock badge still says there are new messages. I spent 30 seconds looking through all the folders before I realized what was going on. It was an already read message in my inbox causing the dock badge to say there were new messages.

James W marked one of Scott's replies in Postbox as useful. Scott replied to the problem "Problem displaying sent email from apple mail".

James W replied on January 28, 2009 20:04 to the problem "Problem displaying sent email from apple mail" in Postbox:

I added a label to the problem email on gmail and the issue seems to have corrected its self. The email displays properly in the box and in the new label/folder.

James W replied on January 28, 2009 09:37 to the problem "Problem displaying sent email from apple mail" in Postbox:

Well its only happened with the one email, and I receive emails from the sender all the time.

I loaded postbox on another computer and the problem email appears fine on the new computer. That one email must be corrupt on the other machine somehow.

James W replied on January 27, 2009 19:34 to the problem "Problem displaying sent email from apple mail" in Postbox:

This is the error console upon loading the message then going to resend:

And this is what appears in the compose window when trying to resend:


I suppose I could try removing and re-adding the gmail account. Are there caches somewhere I should clear if I try that?

I tried viewing the source of the message and it starts with


From - Mon Jan 26 16:49:37 2009
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