Vista - Suggestions to improve the experience of this mail program

Hello, I'm starting to use this program and I'm still not sure I'll be using
it as some "essential" functionnality arent't there yet.

Here they are :
1- When minimizing the "Windows mail" window, you should have the options to
sent it in the tray icon. It's NOT an active program when it's just listening
for mail every half an hour...

2- The Bci (Blind copy i), the third options to sent email to a large group
without sending the emails to everyone is ESSENTIAL!! But, the only way to
activate it is to click the "To:" button, then add some contact into the sBci
space. This is not acceptable, it should be accessible directly (or by giving
the options in the toolbar).

3- When writing emails in HTML, you should have have button in the wirting
toolbar showing the source of the HTML (or the options to show it). That way,
you can write more complex email that the present writing tool doesn't allow;
(ie. make a table, shrink a link into it's description, etc.).

4- An amelioration of the email notification would be nice too. Currently,
it's only a little sound that you won't hear if your listening to music will
working. A little coming up box (like MSN/Live messenger) would be a nice
add-on.

5- I've found the import message tool not working too good. Importing email
files (ie. " [the title] - the sender.eml " ) doesn't work at all whn
importing from Foxmail , Thunderbird and Incredimail programs.

Besides these, I found that program quite good : light, doing only what it
has to do. Make the 4 first improvements and I can live with it.......

#2 go to View | All headers in the new message window.

#3 Go to View | Source Edit in an HTML message and then you can click on
the source window to show the HTML.

steve

"Dr Cool" <Dr Cool@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:566B0DAD-1EC2-4110-8F7E-996548B0FFE7@microsoft.com...
> Hello, I'm starting to use this program and I'm still not sure I'll be
> using
> it as some "essential" functionnality arent't there yet.
>
> Here they are :
> 1- When minimizing the "Windows mail" window, you should have the options
> to
> sent it in the tray icon. It's NOT an active program when it's just
> listening
> for mail every half an hour...
>
> 2- The Bci (Blind copy i), the third options to sent email to a large
> group
> without sending the emails to everyone is ESSENTIAL!! But, the only way to
> activate it is to click the "To:" button, then add some contact into the
> sBci
> space. This is not acceptable, it should be accessible directly (or by
> giving
> the options in the toolbar).
>
> 3- When writing emails in HTML, you should have have button in the wirting
> toolbar showing the source of the HTML (or the options to show it). That
> way,
> you can write more complex email that the present writing tool doesn't
> allow;
> (ie. make a table, shrink a link into it's description, etc.).
>
> 4- An amelioration of the email notification would be nice too. Currently,
> it's only a little sound that you won't hear if your listening to music
> will
> working. A little coming up box (like MSN/Live messenger) would be a nice
> add-on.
>
> 5- I've found the import message tool not working too good. Importing
> email
> files (ie. " [the title] - the sender.eml " ) doesn't work at all whn
> importing from Foxmail , Thunderbird and Incredimail programs.
>
> Besides these, I found that program quite good : light, doing only what it
> has to do. Make the 4 first improvements and I can live with it.......

Thank you very much Steve for pointing out those options I didn't find
naturally.

That makes me rewrite my recommandations ==>

#2 View/Show all headers ISN't intuitive, it should be renamed to something
like "Show Bci header" (as it is the only header added). Or, instead of "All
headers" it would more clear if it was "All destination fields". (In my
sense, it would be more user-friendly)

#3 Putting the access to the Edit the source of the HTML of a message in the
View/Edit source is kind of confusing (not being directly in the writing
structure box). There should have a button in writing toolbar allowing this
"View"

However, thanks to Steve for pointing these out ^_^