On Thursday, December 12, 2002, at 9:08 PM, Steven Rogers wrote: > 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. We've gotten lots of feedback with both of these suggestions, and we're looking into ways to implement them. And one small correction to avoid confusion -- the spam filter in Mail is not Bayesian, although it shares some elements in common with Bayesian techniques. - cricket -----> Software Entomologist – Mail for Mac OS X http://www.apple.com/macosx/jaguar/mail.html ----------> In this fanciful world of pixels you can build wonderlands of delight limited only by your imagination.