Re: [SM-DEVEL] Show Personally Addressed Emails Only

[Daniel W. <d...@ni...>]

Jonathan Angliss wrote:

>Hello Daniel,
>On Thursday, April 07, 2005, Daniel Watts wrote...
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>>Would it be possible to add a feature to the inbox by which the
>>receiver of emails can easily distinguish which emails are addressed
>>personally to him/her, and which were sent impersonally to multiple
>>recipients? (eg. listserves). This might be achievable, eg., through the
>>use of a small icon similar to those indicating which emails have
>>attachments; in some programs there are also icons showing which emails
>>have been replied to, etc.
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>>I predict the answer will be a 'no' to more icons but perhaps we could
>>come up with a filter that allows this?
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>A fairly easy way would be the highlight rules.  Options, Message
>Highlighting.  I cannot remember if it requires the admin to set up
>permissions or not, but you can create rules to colour an email
>different colours based on those rules.  It'd be very simple to add a
>rule that matches each of your addresses, and colours them to your
>preference.
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Actually - that's a good idea. Although the available colours are pretty 
harsh. It would be nice to have something more subtle available (think 
gmail).

>>It would be nice to have this as a "Search Folder" that people can make
>>visible in the folder list under inbox perhaps called "To Me" so when
>>they click on it it shows emails addressed only to them.
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>I like "Search Folders".  I got addicted to them when I was forced to
>use Outlook at work, they're very useful... I keep meaning to looking
>into implementing them in some fashion (plugin or not)... I don't
>think it'd actually be that difficult to do, save the "where" and
>"what" tags from a search, and just create a link in the folder list
>for it.
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hear hear!
what would be nice would be to extend the search facility itself...what 
can be done on that front? eg combined (and/or/not) searching, search 
within results etc.
anyone know how to write a google-like engine? ;)