They Come In Colors
September 28th, 2004
MailAppetizer is cool, but would be cooler if it used different colors for the notification floater based on the message’s X-Priority header.
X-Priority=1 messages (the highest) could be red and X-Priority=2 could be orange. Coloring normal and low priority messages (3-5) would probably be needlessly distracting, so they would use the standard color.
Wow… that App looks cool. Thanks for the heads-up. I hope future version of Mail include this type of notification, anyway.
Daniel, I read this some time ago, but never commented… just come across it again, and thought I’d chime in to agree that this is a good idea, I’ve used MailAppetizer for a long time, and it’s become a natural part of the experience; it’s email screening, but it would be good to have some additional control over which emails show (e.g. omit certain mailing lists, emphasise emails from family), and as you suggest, ways to differentiate a little more, to add further ‘assistive’ features.
Another, possibly conflicting, idea might be to customise the notification appearance according to attributes of the email, such as specific contact, or contact groups, as defined in the Address Book, just as these characteristics are available to conventional Mail Rules.
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