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From: bajan@opus.cs.mcgill.ca (Alan Emtage)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: Mush and mangled headers
Message-ID: <1443@opus.cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: 18 Jul 89 01:51:07 GMT
Reply-To: bajan@cs.mcgill.ca (Alan Emtage)
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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Hi Y'all,

	I have two (I hope) constructive comments to make about mush.
Now, it seems to me that when one starts making suggestions in such small
details as below, we must be working with a pretty good product,
therefore:

	(1) I had a situtation recently, which I have had before, where
some brain-damaged mailer had mangled the headers of the mail I was
getting. Unfortuneately, in curses mode, mush seemed to advertise this
fact at times when I couldn't catch what it was complaining about. For
example, when reading a letter which was some distance (in the message
list sense) from the actual offending piece of mail, mush would inform me
of the bad header just after reading the mail (from the pager) and coming
back to the curses "menu" (sorry can't think of a better term here),
flashing on and off in about a second. With new mail in my box registering 
on the order of hundreds a day, it takes a while to find out where the 
"bad" mail is, especially when the mush flashes the warning (of some five
or six lines) and it disappears before you can see it.

	(2) I often suspend mush and come back to it several times a day
to see what's new in my mailbox (I try not to use biff whereever
possible: too much new mail). However one has to issue at least 2
commands before you can get to the new mail from where you were. One to
get it to tell you that there's new mail and a second to get to it. What 
would The Powers That Be say to the suggestion to replace the 
"Continue" message that you get when you bring mush back into the 
foreground with the message about where the new mail is, right then and 
there ?

	I realize that these are really small details in what is quite a
complicated bit of software but I think (IMHO) that it's these small
things which become so important when using the program as often as some
of us do.

	BTW, thanks to the mushers out there who offered suggestions (and
help ) the last time I posted a wish list. It's great to know that your'e not 
just IP'ing out to nothingness.



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