Re: listing To: vs. From: in mailboxes

[Bryan Butler <bbutler aoc nrao edu>]

OK - i'll have to wait.  seems to me that the best way to
do it is to have a popup menu (can you do that with
right-click?), rather than having the click on the column
header cycle between flavors of To/x and From/x.


	-bryan


On 2002.12.02 13:39 Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> On 2002.12.02 13:01 Bryan Butler wrote:
> > 
> > hi all,
> > 
> > in the Sentbox, the 'From' column is replaced by a 'To' column
> > (in the main window).
> > 
> > i would like to get this behavior on other mailboxes.  is there
> > a way to do that?
> 
> Not at present--that's hard-coded for Sentbox, Draftbox, and 
> Outbox. It certainly makes sense, though: any mailbox that holds 
> a lot of copies of outgoing mail could benefit from that option.
> 
> One version I played with was having the column cycle through 
> To/ascending, To/descending, From/ascending, From/descending, 
> instead of just toggling ascending/descending, when you click on 
> the header. The initial setting is To/ascending for those three 
> special mailboxes, and From/ascending otherwise. Another 
> possibility would be to have a popup menu attached to the column 
> header to select To/From, with the same initialization. I believe 
> we're already heading in the direction of having a config file 
> section for each mailbox, so the state of the column could even 
> be saved between sessions.
> 
> Any thoughts about the best way to handle this?
> 
> Peter
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