On 8/26/06, stevertigo vertigosteve@yahoo.com wrote:
Im a little tired of mail threading, subject forking, ineditability, untaggability, and the general disorganization of the standard Piper.
Something better, there is? OTRS comes to mind, but that might be too process oriented. Something... mailable, threadable, that can show >> text as hidden in a collapsable div... something that will do all of that and yet be low-maintenance... :)
SV ...Something that can strip the footer that will be at the end of this message...
You should REALLY try gmail, it is almost unsettling how smart it is in collapsing what you don't need to see. Almost all footers (except for the first one in a thread, I think that's how it works by recognizing lines that repeat from mail to mail) gets collapsed, aswell as all quoted text, except when you need to read it to get the context of the message. I find myself going "How the hell did Gmail know I needed to read that!!!". It will also sort mails into "conversations" which is worse than threading (since it doesn't explicitly show who responded to whom) but is never a problem. You can also tag each conversation with whatever you want to make it easier to sort through. It has a brilliant search engine which you can find anything with, it has mindnumbingly large storage space and it's archiving concept means you never have to delete a thing (i've currently got 177 mb of mail in my account, most of it wikien) but still get mail out of your inbox. It really is the best there is.
I'll send you an invitation :P
--Oskar