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Ideas and problems with email, still after 20 years?

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tbird34
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Sending email daily, these problems has been nagging me for 20-30 years. And I still don't have a solution. That's why would be grateful if someone could make me smarter, i beliewe there are solutions that i don't know of

1.st problem: You send email that is important, then wait for reply. It never comes. You forget about this. Matter stays unresolved. Receiving/Reading confirmations are like opposite of this and they don't help. There should be something like add checkbox "Expecting a reply in a 1 or 3 days" And if reply does not come, email client would show this email discussion in a list and notification also so you could call or send again. Automatically take off checkbox if receiver will reply no there is not just massive amount of extra work. Is there a solution for this?

2.st problem: 2 or 3 persons will read the same inbox. There should be labels "a doing" "done" "waiting" that goes into IMAP so that other people using that IMAP inbox would also get updated tags of who is caring of the matter and what's it's situation is. Available tags and their colours should also be synched between each client. Yes I'm using labels, but are they imap or just local?

3.st problem: sometimes need to add a note to email, for myself. This is really nicely already solved in tb with Xnote. Would be nice ofcourse if this be also IMAP and not just local

Sending email daily, these problems has been nagging me for 20-30 years. And I still don't have a solution. That's why would be grateful if someone could make me smarter, i beliewe there are solutions that i don't know of 1.st problem: You send email that is important, then wait for reply. It never comes. You forget about this. Matter stays unresolved. Receiving/Reading confirmations are like opposite of this and they don't help. There should be something like add checkbox "Expecting a reply in a 1 or 3 days" And if reply does not come, email client would show this email discussion in a list and notification also so you could call or send again. Automatically take off checkbox if receiver will reply no there is not just massive amount of extra work. Is there a solution for this? 2.st problem: 2 or 3 persons will read the same inbox. There should be labels "a doing" "done" "waiting" that goes into IMAP so that other people using that IMAP inbox would also get updated tags of who is caring of the matter and what's it's situation is. Available tags and their colours should also be synched between each client. Yes I'm using labels, but are they imap or just local? 3.st problem: sometimes need to add a note to email, for myself. This is really nicely already solved in tb with Xnote. Would be nice ofcourse if this be also IMAP and not just local

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Matt
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I would think that message tags would largely address the first two items. Tagging messages for followup. Additionally you can convert the message to a task. which copies the body of the email to a task and includes a link back to the original email.

tbird34
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yes that would be good, for manual labor. But I think email client could / should do this automatically by now.

david
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I agree with @matt, in that there are other ways to solve this, not necessarily via one app. However, this is not the suggestion forum, but the support forum. For suggestions, I suggest you go to connect.mozilla.org and click to the IDEAS section and present your recommendation there.