Re: feature request: Search display to inherit its layout

On 15 Aug 2014 Jim Nagel  wrote:

> Please could the TO column be included by default, when the MPro
> Search routine displays what it has found?

I wouldn't go along with "by default". The To: header is not 
particularly useful because I may be addressed in the Cc: header or 
even in a Bcc: which would show up as an Envelope-to:

> It's tiresome to have to go through the menus (Display > Columns > To)
> every time one searches a "sent" folder, where the present display is
> fairly useless because of course everything is FROM myself.

I can post from a number of different addresses depending on which 
organisation the message concerns. Nevertheless I don't need to know 
which in the search window.

> I notice that the titlebar of any such window is something like
> "Messenger: Folder Search.Search3 (All)".  I wonder if this means that
> the settings for the new window ("Search3") might be inherited from an
> underlying default ("Search"), in which case maybe the user could just
> specify the desired layout once and for all in the underlying default.

I think I asked for this a long time ago. When searching outgoing 
folders it makes sense to display the recipient and not the sender.

The problem there is what do you do when searching a mix of incoming 
and outgoing mail folders. It's unlikely that you'd want to do this 
except when doing a blanket search of everything. I'd accept 
inheriting the columns from the first mailbox or folder searched or, 
and this could be a bit more difficult, inherit all the columns from 
all the folders being searched.


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Richard Porter                        http://www.minijem.plus.com/
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I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.

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