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Is there any movement on this?
It can't be a difficult fix :)

I'm not sure whether I'm continuing on your point, but form the mere-user (thus not admin) point of view, I find it a little annoying that I can not remove the tags which I've added to a photo I've uploaded. I can rename it, change the description, ADD tags, but not remove them O__o

I've tried that search again (from: xx@xx.xx to: yy@yy.yy) it still returns old messages (2006-2007), while upon clicking on view all results you see at least a 1000 messages that match that criteria which are more recent, heck, there is one in there from this morning.

I dug a little deeper and I think I have hit the root of the problem. See I was doing a search of message to: someone from: me. Obviously the majority of the mails would be found in the sent folder. However for some reason back in 06 and 07 I would write an email out to a group of people and to myself as well. I would receive that email from myself, mark is as read, no problem. However now, because that message is in my inbox folder too it gets priority.

So in a sense it is not a bug of the program as such, but it is a hole which allows this slightly unusual user behavior to turn up unsuspecting results. Thus nevermind me and thanks for the quick response! – rado, on June 06, 2009 20:25

I like the way how the messages marked as 'to do' are starred in my gmail account (as in it's equivalent)

And what do you know, I've figured it out. Apologies for spamming like this (as in posting a topic and reply to it twice), but I figured if anyone else were to have a problem like mine, I'd imagine they would appreciate to find the solution.

I found what I was looking for at mailnews.reply_header_colon in the config editor. Simply remove the colon there and presto. Still dazzles me why these two strings are kept separate but I'm glad to have found the solution.

However, despite having fixed this, it is merely a workaround. It would have been optimal if the 'John Smith wrote:' string were to fall under the 'quote' along with the rest of the quoted (as in, replied-to) message, as it should rather than remain in the body of the reply.

aweesomeee!

The prefixes for reply, as far as I understand your request, are currently customizable. You just have to do a little digging in the config editor.

Read my comment at the bottom at http://getsatisfaction.com/postbox/to...

Also if you could check if you have the same problem as me in that link above, please join, follow, comment, it would be wildly appreciated. I'm trying to get that simple problem fixed for quite some time now.

@mbond, (btw we should really use the comments to reply to each other, this clutters up the space here.)

A two-mode approach could work too I guess. But such is the case with all problems, two parties rooting for opposing ideas. The beauty of software is that you can make it individual through preferences and thus make everyone happy. Innovation (not compromise) however, is introducing a third way, where both parties are happy with that one thing, together. And that I think is what we should try to arrive at rather than settle for two-mode solutions >just yet< (no disrespect).

My problem with the gather (show all) function, was simply that you had to do the extra step of clicking gather. Don't get me wrong, I love the feature and it's THE reason I'm using Postbox, but I was hoping for an auto-gather feature. One which would include my replies among the incoming messages. Without my replies, the current threading only serves its function in the list pane (left). As soon as I start reading the messages in the right column I'm left to wonder, did I reply and what did I reply, I look back to the left, unroll the list of constituent messages and look for them small curly arrows indicating my feedback, I move my eyes back to the right and click gather to read what I wrote.

The arrows in the list pane are brilliant cause they let me see, IF I've replied or forwarded the given email, which is great. In the list view, all I need is IF, in the right column, I would like to see >what< I replied with.

Regarding the mark-all-as-read problem I've been thinking whether it would be technically possible (from the programming point of view), for Postbox to detect whether the >particular< message has been viewed for the necessary (say) 3 seconds for it to be marked as read. This way, IF you go through the right column and go through the threaded messages one by one, Postbox would mark each message as read, one by one, individually, accordingly.

Additionally I would throw in a little colour-coding to the mix (as well as left, right alignment, or even tab-offsetting of replies like you see in old-style-forums like on imdb (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1706767/bo...)). I've thrown these ideas out there before (http://getsatisfaction.com/postbox/to...), before I found this thread. (speaking of which, it would be nice if people took their time in adding keywords to their posts, so that they're easier to find) (that and people actually using the search to find previously started threads with same problems, I know I try) – rado, on March 09, 2009 11:24

I wonder whether I am the only one with this problem...

The closest I've come to solving this is going into the config editor, looking up mailnews.reply_header_authorwrote and making it empty (from the original '%s wrote' I believe). Now in place of 'John Smith wrote:' I am left with ':' (so just the colon).

Is there any chance that colon could be included in the string as well, and not hard-encoded into the program?

It may not be THE reason for some (it definitely is for me), but I think Gmail is pushing the envelope in things email related, so mimicking their features with a client would surely be widely appreciated. – rado, on March 09, 2009 10:34

@ Scott,
I would prefer to have control over whether (and if so for which) inline attached images are displayed. As much as most newsletters are trash, some I actually read, and would thus actually like to see the images therein.

Plus, not all newsletters put their images inline, so it would not fully solve the problem I'm afraid.

I'm not saying no to the feature, but the problem would remain. There will always be exceptions, be it show-all-hide-some or hide-all-show-some.

(Here's a crazy thought, signature detection? They're usually preceded by that horizontal line <hr />. No one uses them in normal text anyway, so if Postbox were to grey out all text after that line, would that at least partially solve the signature problem?)

I can think of a simple fix for the 'marking whole thread as read'
I would add a second countdown to the settings, similar to the one which specifies the duration the message has to remain open for Postbox to mark is as read.
The second countdown would be much longer and specify the duration that you would need the whole thread open, for it all to count as read. Cause if say you read the thread and it's open for 30 seconds, then it's safe (or safer) to assume you've read all the individual messages. A step further down that line could be a multiplier effect, so if there are 3 messages in the thread, i need 30 seconds, if 10, I would need a 100 etc.

I feel your pain but I'm afraid there is no perfect way to solve this. I often click on the whole thread and read through the message on the right and voila I'm done, next message (next thread). Only to remember seconds later that I have to go back and unfold the whole thread and individually click each of the messages to mark each as read. Slightly tedious, which is the opposite end of what you're saying with the mark-all-as-read problem.. – rado, on March 09, 2009 10:20

awwee sooommeee! *NPH voice*
thanks!

Awweee.. sooommmeee *NPH voice*
thanks!