mail stuff

[Steven Rogers]

Oh oh!  While cricket is listening, a couple of "Mail" things:

  - it would be nice if the popup you get when the server rejects your 
password had some option like "My lame-O ISP's mail server is hosed yet 
one more time, so wait a while and try again" instead of the only 
option being to retype the password and re-check the box. You just 
can't *imagine* how many times I've done that in the past few months. 
(A more succinct label would be OK ;)

- when you putz an address and the SMTP server bounces it back (usually 
this happens when I type in a name like "Bob" and hit the tab before 
mail gets a chance to complete the name with a valid address), it would 
be nice if there were an option to edit the address and try again. As 
it is, you only have the option to try another SMTP server, or send the 
mail to wait in Out queue. Its so annoying to see the error right 
there, but have to hit the "cancel", watch the window go away, open the 
mailboxes window, hit the "out box" , open message, fix the address 
error, then hit send. Every time I make that error, I think "Boy, after 
that whipping, I'm sure not going to make that mistake again", but 
sooner or later . . . wham.

And while we're at it, that Bayesian spam filter rocks. I'm getting 
about 20 a day, and its making maybe 1 mistake a week at most.

Thanks,
SR