Hi Martin,

Whilst your suggestions are all valid, I would agree with Tony that having the proposed functions in a more explicit way (specifically the ability to flag emails in the inbox) would be tremendously helpful. I am forced to use Lotus at work and have started appreciating the "flagging" function, despite it being extremely rudimentary.

Also, the "alarm" function / pop-up of emails when their due date arises would be excellent to have - at present, I use a "post-it" / "stickies" program to have that functionality outside my email, requiring me to create new postits for emails as and when required. Having that functionality in Pmail would make life a lot easier (especially as the majority of postits in my life are related to emails...)

I understand your concern around Pmail becoming a PIM at a time when its key strengths lie in being an email programme; nonetheless, I believe that these aspects are on a blurred border line of "convergence" of different software requirements for users.

Regards,

Rolf

Hi

For me the major upgrade would be the ability to flag messages with a priority marker so I can find them easily by filter or sort. This would help me to action them when I have many messages that are of low priority.

• Marker is added with a dedicated button that marks/unmarks the selected message
• Marking a message includes:

• Setting the priority
• Setting the Due By date 
• Allows notes to be associated with the message eg what the reply should contain, CC etc
• Additionally it would be great if an alarm could be added, to pop up message when due
• Marking the message adds a marker next to the message and/or changes the colour of the message (this is a useful feature by itself)
• The marker is colour coded to indicate high/med/low priority
• Clicking on the marker brings up a dialogue that contains any reminder notes that you want to associate with the message
• There is an automatic Priority folder that filters all the priority messages, so that they can be found and actioned easily
• This folder will allow sorting by Priority and Due Date in addition to the normal columns

These features are part of Lotus Notes and are some of the main features that I use to organise my email, they are incredibly useful.

Regards

Tony B

Most of what you would like can already be achieved quite easily.  In no particular order:

1. Priority,  can be set by assigning a message color. Folder list can be sorted by color

2. Attached notes, simply add an Annotation to a message.  This can also be updated with timestamp info as well as progress text

3  Due Date. Create a folder with folder names being the date, ie Aug03 or simply a name like ToDo.    Put appropriate messages in it.

This is all available without having to implement a PIM.

Martin