Types of email

[Sebastian Koch]

Taking off on this:

Why not introduce a learning algorithm, that can adapt to each different user, learning what a user does with one type of messages.

It would include finding ways to categorize emails, maybe with the help of the user, but mostly learning on its own.

Sebastian


Am 16.01.2010 um 14:16 schrieb Brent Simmons:

> I'm not sure it's a valuable idea or not, but it's something I've been thinking about.
> 
> The email apps I've used don't know anything about the *type* of any given email. By type I mean: it's a crash log, bug report, iTunes music store ad from Apple, financial report from my store, email from a family member, etc. (Your list will be different from mine, of course.)
> 
> You can kind of fake this stuff up a bit using filters, but that's not really the same as the email app knowing what kind of message it is and giving you the right display and options and processing for that kind of message.
> 
> It's somewhat like different types in a text editor -- a text editor knows to comment C code differently from how you comment Ruby code.
> 
> But not exactly the same because there is no canonical list of types of messages.
> 
> This may be one (of many) places where plugins might come in. Plugins that could determine a specific type of message and affect the display and/or commands and/or processing.
> 
> Here's a very simple example: when I have a crash log in email, I want to see the "Thread n Crashed" line in red type, so I can easily find that thread. I'm not sure that such a feature should be built into the app -- but you can imagine a crash log handling plugin that recognizes crash logs, affects the display, perhaps gives you options, maybe even archives them to a separate database, etc.
> 
> -Brent
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