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Originally Posted by QuackFu
I've read PocketPCThoughts for many years now, as I was a PocketPC enthusiast well before joining the team (it's actually what convinced me to change teams).
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Well congratulations on a very solid first post, and welcome! I've been more and less involved in the Thoughts forums since many years ago, and it has been too rare a thing to see a Microsoft employee join in the discussions. Same on Brighthand; just the odd blip, then silence. It's nice, thanks for this.
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Originally Posted by QuackFu
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"2. The ability to categorize and filter my email" - I guess I'm not clear on what you're looking for here, The mail client has the ability to instantly filter email as you start typing... maybe this is not what you're referring to by filtering?
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I think what was being asked for here was something like what nPOPuk offers; user-definable/configurable filters to handle a) whether mail gets marked for deletion from the server or for download in full, or is just left as a pre-defined preview portion, b) dumping certain newly-arrived mail into archive/category filters without manual intervention, and c) whatever other parameters and controls the user might wish to exert over arriving mail. A mobile device with memory limitations, especially today when many emails arrive from broadband users with very large attachments, needs a proper email client, with controls over how email is delivered and handled. nPOPuk does this sort of thing very well, and is freeware/open source, so I guess it's easy enough for anyone to use that instead (as I do - MS Inbox/Messaging is a catastrophe in my opinion... always has been... just this week I tried it again for the first time in years, and it cannot seem to keep the one single email I have in my GMail Inbox... it downloads fine, then on next check it's gone, and yes, I have checked and re-set both my in-device account settings and my GMail prefs many times while testing this - Messaging just doesn't seem able to 'hang on' to the email), but having such features built into the OS would be nice. As it stands, certain features have definitely been improved over the years (HTML handling for one), but others lag behind many, many other email clients. nPOPuk can, of course, handle GMail. Not without issues, but those are GMail and SSL issues, not native to the client, and usually easily resolved. Full disclosure; I am on the beta testing team for nPOPuk, and have been for several years now.
I do certainly see a lot of improvements with WM6.1 and 6.5, so good work generally speaking. It's just those darned particulars, when users tunnel down and want everything to just work, that the trouble seems to start. The overall impression of the interface and functionality is quite good, in my opinion. Of course, you didn't address my question... post #25, last couple of paragraphs... but one can't expect too much all at once. Still, any possibility of following that one up, regarding the ability to organize the new Start Menu, at least alphabetize the thing?