[Macpartners] FW: Feedback for Apple

[Albert Willis]

On Apr 6, 2007, at 2:12 PM, Karen Johnson wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Several staff would like a more elegant mail application.
> The feature missed the most is stationary. We receive repeated  
> questions re the same topics. Our staff could hit reply and then  
> select the stationary for the response. This impacts work the most.
>
> A few users would like high priority mail to be more obvious.

Users that wish to have high priority messages standout can create a  
rule that does this:

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You can change the background or the color of the text.

> Another user has submitted the following:
>
> -In Eudora, you could change the background color and font color of  
> your inbox. I REALLY miss this - you could make it easier on your  
> eyes.

You can accomplish this by creating a rule that changes the text  
color of low priority messages, with different colors for medium and  
high priority messages, if desired.

> -In Eudora, when looking in a specific mailbox, it would open a new  
> window.  In AppleMail, the mailbox opens in the same window as your  
> Inbox which can be confusing - it is not easy to see where you are  
> located and can easily think you are in your Inbox instead of a  
> mailbox.

While it does take a little getting used to, by default, the contents  
of any mailbox shows up in the main window. The mailbox a user is  
currently viewing is highlighted and its name is at the top of the  
window:

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Users that wish to see the contents of mailboxes in different windows  
can select New Viewer Window from the File menu and select the  
mailbox (or boxes) they wish to see in different windows.

> -In Eudora, you could preview an email below the list of messages  
> without the message getting marked as seen.

To quickly change the message status from read to unread, press  
Command-Shift-U.

> -Message Importance indicator appeared in red so it was easier to  
> see when a  message was marked as important

See the rule above that changes the background color of message based  
on its priority.

   -- Al


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Albert Willis
Macintosh Platform Coordinator - Software Release Team
Client Support Services
Information Services and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
awillis at mit.edu