Apd,
> There should be two pick-lists, one for proportional and one
> for fixed.
Yes, I have them. But as I could not remember having seen any setting
anywhere to choose between them and the changing of the proportional font
seemed to do its thing I decided not to ask.
... But as you are mentioning it, where does that fixed on get used ? :-)
> when "read msgs in plain text" is ticked on the "Read" tab
As I have it.
> Find "text in this message" isn't available
Yup, noticed that too.
> neither is unscramble (rot-13)
Here it seems to be available.
> nor "copy shortcut" for URLs
I don't quite follow. in "plain text" mode the URL is not (and cannot be)
hidden, so it can be copied anyway.
Handy: I can click the URL and my default browser opens on it.
Funny: I can't do that when there is an URL, quoted or not, in the compose
window.
Another odd thing : when composing a message in "plain text" mode you can
/still/ paste "rich text" stuff (text as well as images) into that text
window. And as copy-pasting from a HTML document is done in "rich text"
format ... Not funny.
> OE would be a very capable news and mail client if they had finished it
In that regard :
The "blocked senders" list has been coded to grab the action for it from the
registry. The problem is, the only action it will recognise is "delete
message".
Also, when you change the data in the registry (and by it disable the
"delete message" action) it will /still/ ask if you want to delete all the
posters previous messages, and actually do that (ignoring the registry
setting).
And oh yeah, the "killfile" only works with exact matches. No wildcards.
Setting up criteria for, for example, the view filter.
The "priority" for emails can be tested - but only for an exact match with
either "high" or Low" (not "none" or "normal". Yes, the priority is
/stored/ using four different values). No possibility to say "all above
normal priority" or "all below high priority"
The criteria creator only allows you to do a simple AND and OR, but (afaik)
no grouping (no "if A or (B and C)"). No negation either, and each item can
only be selected once (no "if low priortity or high priority"). Although
that latter part can be circumvented by using the registry.
> ... if they had finished it (as Mayayana is hoping!)
I always thought that they intentionally crippled it so you would buy its
"big brother" Outlook. Only recently I found out that they are only
related by name, not so much otherwise. :-|
But in that regard I found
www.oeclassic.com . It even has a free version,
if you do not mind the small advertisement they than append to every
message. Might be worth a look ?
Regards,
Rudy Wieser