I'm aware this has been mentioned elsewhere under different subject headings, but it might be worth making a specific "wish" for configurable folder columns in PM.

We have a number of "collection" mailboxes for things like spam, audit trails and the like. With a collection mailbox, you may be faced with messages originally intended for a large number of different recipients. However, there is no way to see who the intended recipient is, in the folder list. Particularly when we have to check out the spam folder for unintended hits, we have to open every candidate message to see who it was sent to. This matters because most junk mail is sent to our "public" address and anything else is more likely to be an unintended hit. The better we refine filtering, the more onerous this task becomes, or so it seems [:S]

Autofiltering suggestions:

I have two suggestions on my Autofilter wishlist, (the first being an alternative to one somewhere else in this thread):

Indicator for incoming autofiltered mail
When incoming mail is automatically filtered to folders, would it be possible to have some indicator, perhaps floating in the New Mail folder window, advising that some new mails have gone directly to other folders?

Without this, checking new mail always involves checking not only the NewMaill folder but also the Folder Listing, just in case..............

Autofiltering exceptions
Also, could we have an "autfiltering exception" box to ensure that mail with specified addresses don't get autofiltered? Like my own! On occasions moving mail with multiple addresses into an autofiltered folder, the odd address that you didn't want or need specifically associated with an autofiltered folder slips through. Then later you start the game of "hunt the missing email" until you find it buried somewhere you didn't expect!

I appreciate there are manual controls to prevent this happening; wouldn't it be easier simply to tell the gatekeeper, programmatically, who not to allow in?

[quote user="Jerry Wise"]I would direct you to RFC5322 (the latest on the subject) where absolute limit is 998 chars but the SHOULD limit is 78 chars per line. HTML or plain text does not change the requirements or recommendation.[/quote]

Well, although this is true the reality is more complicated, and as a (kind of) co-developer I personally would work around this by being tolerant when reading such messages: In current days there's almost no RAM limit other than by design (i.e. 4 GB on 32bit systems and much much more (2^64) on 64bit systems) and I'm confident that this would suffice to accomodate any line length currently seen (unless specially crafted for overflow testing). If creators of such messages simply used quoted-printable for wrapping these lines we wouldn't even see this issue at all, but again: Reality is more complicated ...

That looks an interesting program. Certainly those little messages that webmail companies love to add are extremely irritating. However, that is not what I was really requesting.

Several mail clients remove (or offer the option to remove) everything below the HYPHEN HYPHEN SPACE that is the standard delimiter of a mail signature when you start a reply. Although Pegasus nudges you to include such a delimiter in your own signatures, it currently does not not mandate it (likely a valued piece of flexibility to many users). Promoting the use of this delimiter whilst failing to automatically remove such signatures from a reply seems strange. I would have thought it simple enough to add an option to do this.

My suggestion is a timestamp of the last time a rule from a filtering set was triggered. 

This way you can tell what rules are not being triggered often, and re-arrange and/or disable rules to improve filtering speed.  I have a very long list of rules, it does a nice job of filing/deleting stuff so that only stuff requiring my immediate atttention is in the inbox.  But, it sometimes bogs down my computer for a while waiting for it to filter large batches of messages.

This would be especially useful for administrators like myself who get a large volume of email combined with a large number of rules. 

What cache management do you have under the Settings tab of the IMAP definition?  I find that with everything cached, the access speed is very good, and under Performance you can also specify a limited set of folders to update.

After 18 months with no further comment, I'm repeating my suggestion/request for an increase in the size of the telephone number field in the Address Book so that the entire number is visible in the list of entries. Even though the column can be enlarged, only the first 11 characters of the number are displayed.

Ok,

At first I was searching for a shortcut to remove attachments from the mail. I tried Delete key, but it did not work. So I found that Alt+R is removing attachment that we want in attachments tab. So my problem has been solved :)

These are great ideas.  In my opinion, features that fundamentally improve and optimize my day-to-day workflow are the ones I am most interested in.  E-Mail is no longer just sending and receiving messages, it is now about "managing" messages and the continuing deluge of information that comes flowing in every day.

New and improved user interfaces are fine and cute, but what I really desire is features that allow me to more productively manage and respond to the deluge.

[quote user="PaulW"]Something not right - I always see the complete folder structure in added mailboxes.[/quote]

Thanks Paul,

I get a flat folder view with all folders listed alphabetically, even those which supposed to be in the trays. All folders including search folders etc.

I add a mailbox through the "Directory path" option. The "Username" option does not work (!) just giving a short warning sound, even the user exist. I have PM setup as a multi-user installation and normally start PM with a command line option to have the right ID as well as identity loaded in the form:
C:\...\Programs\winpm-32.exe -A -I my_user -ID my_identiy

However, starting it normally and typing in the user does not make any difference.

Anyone else an idea?

Cheers

Thomas
 

[quote user="anbecker"]

... option to have a column in the folders displaying the "To"-field of a message ...

[/quote]

I'll second that.

Even better: A coloumn showing for each email the sender OR recipient: Whichever is NOT the current pmail user's address.

[quote user="Lythande"]I would love a real mail application for my web-capable phone.  And no, it isn't an iPhone.  That's one thing that ticks me off about this new-age tech:  Everyone is trying to develop apps for the iPhone, but seem to forget that Apple isn't the only one putting out phones with access to more than just communication.[/quote]

Developers don't forget what's available to them.  It's merely a question of what's most feasible and most lucrative to work with.  Look at some of the data for use:

http://metrics.admob.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/AdMob-Mobile-Metrics-Oct-09.pdf

Or see here --  "Apple iPhone takes up 50% of the Total Global Data Traffic":

http://www.stockwatch.in/apple-iphone-takes-50-total-global-data-traffic-24129 

The device (or devices, rather since the iPod Touch is also important) are paradigms of good design and hence highly attractive to users.  Thus there's a large pool of users -- a big market.  But it's not just that: Objective-C, the Cocoa Touch APIs, and XCode are very nice for developers to work with:

http://developer.apple.com/technology/cocoa.html

Most other phones out there are using Java (as opposed to Objective-C).  The APIs are doubtless in some cases good (though probably not as good as Cocoa Touch).  And there are plenty of Java developers around.  Also, Java is theoretically a write-once-run-anywhere thing.  However, in practice, a developer might need to tweak his application to get it to look right and run well on different models -- even those from the same manufacturer.

The developers targeting the iPhone have it easier, because they don't have to write to a range of devices with different hardware components, different screen resolutions, and so on.  Many makers are bringing out anything up to 10 phones a year.  Apple is working on a small range of devices and a slow release of new hardware.  Users' operating-system software is also going to show little variation, because updating of that -- not done at all by many users of other devices -- is easily done via the iTunes software, and most users do do it.

So if a developer writes something that runs on the iPhone/iPod Touch, then it'll run on every (or virtually every) one out there.

That's just not the case elsewhere.  There are forums where people exchange notes of which applications will and which won't run on their particular Android phone!  Some of these phones run version 1.5 of the Android OS; some version 2.  The hardware varies.  Some makers have added or disabled functionality.  Some come with the Google apps; some don't.  There's nothing consistent for developers to write to.

Add to that that the iTunes Store gives developers easy access to a way to get their applications in front of users' eyes.

It's not that developers have forgotten anything.  It's that they know their business.

[quote]I have an LG600G, but no email app.  Web-mail is possible, but doesn't allow me to attach files (like pics) from my phone storage (which is weird, I know).  I know David is busy enough with the full-version Pegasus Mail, not to mention Mercury, but I also know there are lots of programmers in this group.[/quote]

I don't know the phone, but applications for it are probably written in Java.  That's true for most phones.  The iPhone is an exception; so is the Palm Pre, whose apps are like little web widgets.  (And I think there are some phones that can use a cut-down version of Gtk.)  With everything else it's Java.

Now Pegasus Mail is written in C.   David would have to re-write the program in Java -- and in a special version suitable for the size of the storage available for programs on the phone and appropriate to the interface of the device.  I should imagine that would be a horrendous amount of work for anyone.  But the program wouldn't necessarily run on the next phone LG brings out, let alone on anything from another maker ...

I just don't think it would happen.

If you run PConfig -A (in Pegasus Mail executables directory eg c:\pmail)  you will get a screen showing the file locations that Pegasus Mail is using. Modify and Save to the correct pre-existing location if required.

HTH

Martin

[quote user="ChipER Technology"]As I believe people has been using pegasus to send mail merge for marketing purposes.[/quote]

"Marketing", eh?

I've found that a new mail filtering rule such as "Move to" is applied on the basis of the folder name as shown on screen rather than its actual filename (e.g. FOL0544D.*). I had two different filing trays, each containing a folder named "In" and one named "Out". This appeared to cause Pegasus not to apply the Move to filtering rule the way I wanted, forcing me to rename the In and Out folder in one of the two filing trays. No biggie, of course, but I was wondering whether it would be possible to have the Move to filtering rule applied on the basis of the folder's actual file names, such that when I select the folder name on clicking the set button, Pegasus doesn't remember its on-screen name but its actual folder name (or perhaps some other ID) instead.

Cheers!
Steffan

[quote user="whiskyfizz"]

Well, I did not know there already was some sort of a "keywords option". However, if it is only available for outgoing messages, it will not serve my purpose.[/quote]

I've just been testing and I don't think there's currently any way to search your annotations. If that were possible, that would allow something similar to what you want, though it would need you to manually add your 'tags' to each message. I think that a way of searching annotations might be useful - perhaps the new mail store allows for this.

Alternatively (and perhaps more practically), being able to add keywords to received messages would be good and if it were combined with a new filter action of adding a keyword, this could be mighty powerful.

I realise one can add a custom x-header via a filter rule, but then you would need two separate searches to find a trail of messages, both sent and received, for a given tag: one search for keywords in outgoing mail and another for the x-headers that had been added.

[quote user="KSQR"]Are the "nice to have" feature suggestions reviewed by the Beta Members who prioritize those they find worthy and pass them to David for possible inclusion in his "to-do" list?[/quote]

You're free to contact him yourself, his email address can be found on the The History of Pegasus Mail page of the help file.

Recently I have noticed that PMail 4.51 does not always behave gracefully when Windows file permissions for *.PMM files are set incorrectly.  

For example, if you're using a "User Level" Windows account, but Pegasus Mail was originally setup under an "Administrator Level" Windows account, then it is possible that some of the critical Pegasus files (such as *.PMM's) will have their permissions set in such a way that they can only be written/modified from an Administrator Level Windows account.  When this happens, and file permissions get screwed up, Pegaus does not inform the user about these bad file permissions.  PM simply fails to move files to the requested folder, or in the worst case, "copies to self" e-mails disappear forever.

Bottom Line: Pegasus should evaluate the security permissions of files (such as *.PMM files) and warn the user when it can not complete an operation due to screwed up file permisssions.

Even more fundamentally, PM should throw out some sort of warning dialog to the end user when file write operations can not complete as expected.

How often do you want to set reminders, and are you wanting prepare responses, ie a Reply, or just remind yourself that something is due at some future date ie a one liner.  vCalendar has a Task feature that contains reminder popups.

I suggest you check out Daymove at http://www.lexacorp.com.pg  which maintains a queue of your prepared messages, and pops them into your NewMail directory on a specified date. This will not be able to schedule  a "one month's time" or "in three days". 

Martin

Thanx for answering, but I've "moved" my question and reply here:

http://community.pmail.com/forums/thread/19316.aspx

(When I moved it it was too late to delete this entry... [:^)])