Roundup: Top X requested Mail features

By David Chartier

Last week I put you TUAW readers in charge of Mail
and asked what you would change, add or improve if you called the shots. The response was incredible, with just over 100 comments in the first day. Today I
figured it was about time I dug through everyone's comments and posted,
in no particular order, the Top X requests:

  • Total count of new emails in Dock icon (not just the Inbox)
  • Better formatting abilities: bulleted lists, full HTML-composing support, etc.
  • Better Exchange support, including sending events to iCal
  • Better Mail + iCal integration (creating events from messages, etc)
  • Disabling attachment preview, although I believe you can do this on a per-message basis
  • In-Mail status window
  • Better search, allowing for more than one criteria. (As in: show all messages from Bob in September with attachments)
  • Folder and mailbox labels, like Finder labels
  • Location awareness. A lot of users are on the move these days and that means different SMTP servers are sometimes needed in different places
  • Ability to edit received messages

With any luck, Mail's developers are taking some notes and writing some code – but I make no guarantees. If these features don't show up in 10.4.4 or the upcoming Mac OS X 10.5 Liger (or whatever its called), don't start sending me hate mail.

[Note: yes, I know 10.5 is called Leopard. Liger's just funnier.]
 

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