"Michael Santovec" <michael_santovec@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:e3RThn7rIHA.4788@xxxxxx
Quote:
> I noticed that when in newsgroups, If I select Edit, Find, Messages it
> will let me select a newsgroup or Storage Folder for searching. But the
> folders in my POP3 accounts are inaccessible.
>
Another one of WLMail's incompatibilities/usability
annoyances?
Perhaps related to the new "mode" tabs?
E.g. I can't use Go to Folder (Ctrl-y) to switch to Mail
from Newsroups (or vice versa) without using them either.
Quote:
> Is there a way to search the POP3 folders without leaving the newsgroup?
I guess you're trying to use the old OE standby of having
a Find window always open for your Inbox while you work
in newsgroups?
(FWIW I don't have E-mail configured with WLMail.)
Now the only difference will be that you won't be able
to open the Find window for the Inbox while you are in
the Newsgroups mode. You will only be able to do that
while you are in the Mail mode. Then (question) will
the Find window that you started in the other mode
still be usable when you switch to a different mode?...
It appears that it might. E.g. usually I have a Find window
open for my Drafts (which shares modes). To test this idea
I just switched to Mail mode and opened my Find window.
When I switched back to Newsgroups mode that Find window
was evidently still in Mail mode (e.g. no newsgroups visible
in its Browse... list).
But now this makes more essential than it ever was in OE
that we have a way of specifically identifying our Find windows.
E.g. something more definite than Find Message for a title
would make switching between them *much* easier... ; }
(Serendipity.) Well what do you know? ; ) There is a point
to those mode tabs after all... Switching between them
seems to preserve your context in the other mode.
So if your question means: "Is there a way to start a Find
window for one mode without losing your context in another
mode?" I guess the answer is: yes. ; ) Maybe that Find
window won't seem quite so handy any more either? <eg>
Nevertheless, I do not understand why they have exposed
so much implementation in their UI. It just causes
extra confusion and reduced usability IMO.
Robert
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