Brainstorm

Modest and Mailing Lists Commands

Posted on 2010-03-31 21:08 UTC by Matthew Wronka. Status: Under consideration, Categories: Desktop, Internet & Networking, User Experience.

RFC 2369 describes various headers that are designed to facilitate manipulation with mailing lists.  Currently, the modest e-mail client doesn't recognize any of them or treat them specially.

In desktop mail clients, at the very least, usually the List-Post command is used to provide a "reply to list" option in addition to the regular "reply" and "reply-all" options.  Often List-Unsubscribe or List-Help are also presented to the user.

Screen real-estate is precious for modest, which presents a question of how this information should be surfaced to the user (if at all).

Solutions for this brainstorm

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Solution #1: Add List Commands to the Menu

Posted on 2010-03-31 21:09 UTC by Matthew Wronka.

When the list commands presented in RFC 2369 are present, they can be added to the menu (i.e. near "Message Details",  "Find in Message", etc...); thus saving screen real-estate with viewing the message.

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Solution #2: Add commands to the header-view

Posted on 2010-03-31 21:12 UTC by Matthew Wronka.

Display the available commands in the header-view in the same location that attachments are currently shown.  This will make utilizing them much quicker than if they were in the menu, but use more screen space.

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Solution #3: Ignore the headers

Posted on 2010-03-31 21:13 UTC by Matthew Wronka.

Adding a user interface as described in RFC 2369 would just add clutter and degrade the user experience on a small device.

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Solution #4: Replace "download external images" with a "reply-to-list"

Posted on 2010-03-31 21:16 UTC by Matthew Wronka.

There is a button in the message view window to download and display external images in a message.  This button should be replaced by a reply-to-list option (and moved to the left of the delete button with the other reply buttons).

This would mean that remote images would not be downloadable unless this button were to be moved to the menu.