[sylpheed:33120] Re: My personal view about the future of Sylpheed.
Antonio Ospite <ospite <at> studenti.unina.it>
2009-08-18 14:44:05 GMT
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:00:51 +0200
Nairolf Relsserp <airflow.2010 <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Antonio Ospite wrote:
>
> > The question is: how do I imagine Sylpheed 2.8? Forgive the selfish
> > post, it's just to start up some discussion.
>
> Hello Antonio and all others,
>
> well I just will add my 2c...
>
> I really like Sylpheed and the way it works and looks. But I had an
> epiphany regarding how messaging-systems in general should work, like
> mailclients or be it the SMS-application on your phone.
>
> Putting sent mail into a folder named "Sent Mail" and keeping it
> separated from the mail you are answering is not very intuitive and
> not a very logical way to do. I used this system for myself for the
> last fifteen years, but in the meanwhile I think that's not a good
> idea. Keeping mail-conversations as "threads", which can be moved as a
> whole between the folders is much better.
>
I agree.
> I don't know how much work it would be to offer at least an option to
> store mails like that, but I guess it could be doable. Sylpheed
> already has mail-threads implemented, it's just the question where a
> sent mail is put in the first place.
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