Mail enhancements
No, not male enhancements. That’d be a different post. So to speak.
Not that anyone asked, but I’d like my mail client to let me use the autocomplete feature within the body of an email. This is important because I’m stupid. Sometimes when I need to refer to an email address, I will use the autocomplete function in the “To” field, and then copy and paste it into the body of the msg. But sometimes (here comes the stupid part) I forget to remove it from the “To” field, thus sending to someone a msg about that person. Much mighty D’oh-slapping then ensues. So, imagine I were able to use the autocomplete feature within the body itself…
Last night, my friend Steve Baum suggested a feature he’d like: Type in the name of a mailing list and be able to expand that to a list of everyone in the list. That way you could delete people you don’t want to get that mailing. Sounds useful to me.
(I actually think both of these could be within my amateur programming capabilities. What’s stopping me is the lack of good, newbie, dumbass documentation that explains exactly – exactly – how to write and integrate Thunderbird extensions.) [Tags: email SteveBaum thunderbird]
Categories: Uncategorized dw
They certainly exist.
1. Emacs has a email / news component called Gnus. Within it, you had the capability to expand email addresses anywhere. And you could do it by typing the name of the person or by typing the beginning of their address. It didn’t have Windows-like autocomplete, but you just needed to type enough and then hit a space for Gnus to finish your work.
2. I’ll assume you are talking about a personal mailing list, not a YahooGroup or Listserv. In Outlook, I get a + when it figures out that I’ve typed a distribution list name. Then I can expand that list and remove names who shouldn’t get the message.