Suggesting improvements to StickyMail forwarding

forwarding to email adress can be a maze

[Macguru]

Hi, I dont know if this was previously discussed here. I apologize if it was so.

I just forwarded a bunch of messages to my email from my StickyMail inbox, before it blows up! The result in my email inbox looks like this :

From______________________Subject

WebmasterWorld____________Forwarded email from WebmasterWorld.com
WebmasterWorld____________Forwarded email from WebmasterWorld.com
WebmasterWorld____________Forwarded email from WebmasterWorld.com
WebmasterWorld____________Forwarded email from WebmasterWorld.com
WebmasterWorld____________Forwarded email from WebmasterWorld.com
WebmasterWorld____________Forwarded email from WebmasterWorld.com

For hundreds of messages in a row....

Not easy to find who sent me what about wich topic in this maze...

I am no PERL monk, so Is it feasible to transfer Username in the "From" field and the real subject in the "Subject" fiels uppon forwarding StickyMail to email? That woul be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[Brett_Tabke]

I don't care for that about the current system either. Take your level of stickymail Mac and put two zero's on the end of it. (I feel your pain. Course, knowing your recent med history, I probably don't ;-)

Updating it is feasible, but requires some major sub routine code rewrite. At the point that the email is sent and the subject line set, the subroutine no longer knows the from or subject of the original email. So, I'd have to back up and figure out a way to remember that.

[Marcia]

I occasionally forward hundreds to clear it out because I get messages about bouncing because it's full. I select about 50 at a time to be all sent in one email and deleted. Sure, they come in with the subject like that, but I'd rather have them combined than hundreds separately over time. Eventually I'll have to go through and sort them out some, but I don't think I could deal with 600+ individual emails.

[Brett_Tabke]

Ok, I updated that a little. The question now is, what should be the subject line for those individual emails?

I feel they need something in there that alerts users that they are Forwarded messages. They should also include the site name. That way, people can filter on the site name into folders.

Which one would you prefer for a stickymail with the subject "Macs On Parade in Boston":

-----
Forward : Macs On Parade in Boston
Forwarded From WebmasterWorld : Macs On Parade in Boston
StickyMail From WebmasterWorld : Macs On Parade in Boston
-----

Or something else? I feel the sitename must be in there, and there should be something that says it is a forward. Suddenly, that becomes a character length problem (should be under 80 chars absolute maximum to meet standard. (with "Subject: "

I did put in a X-Foo line in the header:

X-Foo: Forwarded mail from WebmasterWorld

That would allow your email client to filter on that. I also put in a

X-StickyMailFolder: outbox

Where "outbox" is the folder that the stickymessages come from. (not applicable if you choose "all one message".

Imagine a year or two from now when every BBS forum on the net is running this software ;-) and you have forwarded email coming in from multiple sites.

[sun818]

How about this?

FW: WW - Macs On Parade in Boston

SM: WW - Macs On Parade in Boston

[Macguru]

Jeez you work so fast!

Thank you very much. It is a great improvement. I just tried it and I like it.

>>That way, people can filter on the site name into folders

Very good idea!

The best thing would be to also add user name to WebmasterWorld in the "From :" field. Such as :

WebmasterWorld : Brett_Tabke Forward : Macs On Parade in Boston

This way all forwarded messages could be sorted by username.

>>Imagine a year or two from now when every BBS forum on the net is running this software

So, when do you plan to give it away? ;)

Thanks again Brett.

[Brett_Tabke]

Using the initials would require another config setting just for that option - not fond of that idea because many sites won't be able to come up with an acronym that is suitable. I ended up with a bit different subject line, but it should suffice.