Email Client Additions

I have two ideas:

1. Give the ability to sort and manage contacts into groups.  I realize  
there are folders, but groups of instances of contacts.  This means that I  
could have a single entry for a contact and they can appear in multiple  
groups... sort of like mailing lists.  A friend whom I work with could  
appear in a 'clients' list, a 'close friends' list, an 'all friends' list,  
an so forth.  An ideal extension to this would be giving me the ability to  
choose which email address is associated with that group, as many contacts  
have more than one (primary/"Additional").

2. I'd like to be able to choose whether my signature appears ABOVE or  
BELOW a reply to an email.  As it stands, it appears at the bottom, and  
there are many cases where I have to cut/paste it above.  I realise that  
there is some mechanism which allows the signature to change based on the  
"From" address, but I'm sure something could be developed.  Also on
this  
point, the opportunity to remove the two dashes would also be nice.  I use  
the same closing lines for most business emails and it would be useful to  
put them in a signature.

There you go.

Marc

On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:08:21 -0000, Marc G <spam@imagemine.ca> wrote:

> 1. Give the ability to sort and manage contacts into groups.

I think it would be useful if you could add tags to records like you can  
to files on Flicker or You Tube. So in the tags field of each contact you  
could add any relevant words and then use these in searches. The idea  
could also be used elsewhere in Opera, such as bookmarks or even emails.  
The current Labels feature to flag an email as Important or whatever could  
be replaced/enhanced with a text input field for tags. Not everyone would  
use that but if the code was already there to make it work on the  
bookmarks and contacts it may be a minimal effort to add it to the mail  

On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:08:21 +1300, Marc G <spam@imagemine.ca> wrote:

> I have two ideas:
>
>
> 2. I'd like to be able to choose whether my signature appears ABOVE or  
> BELOW a reply to an email.  As it stands, it appears at the bottom, and  
> there are many cases where I have to cut/paste it above.  I realise that  
> there is some mechanism which allows the signature to change based on  
> the "From" address, but I'm sure something could be developed. 
Also on  
> this point, the opportunity to remove the two dashes would also be  
> nice.  I use the same closing lines for most business emails and it  
> would be useful to put them in a signature.
>
That will never happen, as it flies in the face of email protocols. Do you  
realise that when replying to a message, conforming mail clients are  
supposed to remove everything following the original message's signature?

What you want with the templated closing lines is easily achieved by  
"insert Note" (on the right-click menu in the compose window). THis
comes  
fairly close to the "canned reply" function of some other mail
clients.


-- 

On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:26:02 -0500, Eik <spam@hotmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:08:21 -0000, Marc G <spam@imagemine.ca>
wrote:
>
>> 1. Give the ability to sort and manage contacts into groups.
>
> I think it would be useful if you could add tags to records like you can  
> to files on Flicker or You Tube. So in the tags field of each contact  
> you could add any relevant words and then use these in searches. The  
> idea could also be used elsewhere in Opera, such as bookmarks or even  
> emails. The current Labels feature to flag an email as Important or  
> whatever could be replaced/enhanced with a text input field for tags.  
> Not everyone would use that but if the code was already there to make it  
> work on the bookmarks and contacts it may be a minimal effort to add it  
> to the mail too.

It's already there.  The 'Notes' field in a Contact's poperties and the  
'Description' in the Bookmark properties pretty much work this way.  Enter  
keywords in here and you can type them into the "Quick Find" at the
top to  
return those entries.  It isn't really necessary in email as there is a  
"Quick Find" to do the same within filters and a search box at the top
of  

Em Sat, 15 Dec 2007 01:48:07 -0200, Marc G <spam@imagemine.ca> escreveu:

> On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:26:02 -0500, Eik <spam@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:08:21 -0000, Marc G <spam@imagemine.ca>
wrote:
>>
>>> 1. Give the ability to sort and manage contacts into groups.
>>
>> I think it would be useful if you could add tags to records like you  
>> can to files on Flicker or You Tube. So in the tags field of each  
>> contact you could add any relevant words and then use these in  
>> searches. The idea could also be used elsewhere in Opera, such as  
>> bookmarks or even emails. The current Labels feature to flag an email 

>> as Important or whatever could be replaced/enhanced with a text input 

>> field for tags. Not everyone would use that but if the code was already
 
>> there to make it work on the bookmarks and contacts it may be a minimal
 
>> effort to add it to the mail too.
>
> It's already there.  The 'Notes' field in a Contact's poperties and the  
> 'Description' in the Bookmark properties pretty much work this way.   
> Enter keywords in here and you can type them into the "Quick
Find" at  
> the top to return those entries.  It isn't really necessary in email as  
> there is a "Quick Find" to do the same within filters and a
search box  
> at the top of the filter list to perform a wider search.

I agree. But I still feel the need of a central repository where to see  
(and use) *all* those which are available. It also avoid typos...

-- 
YinY@nger
Usando o M2, revolucionário cliente de e-mail do Opera: