@cecr: use show sent as from self in Smart folder settings
I've down all that. Smart folder was active on installation and I left it on even though I had no intention of using it.
In addition to the options you selected, I also selected Starred Messages, even though I rarely use stars, and Show Sent from Self.
However, I don't see sent messages in Smartfolder, only received. Smartfolder concept isn't new, and I don't see sent messages in other software using it. I suspect you don't actually understand what I'm saying, and are making assumption based on how you use the app and what you expect.
I have uninstalled and reinstalled the app TWICE ie 2 times just to make it clear, and have toggled smartfolder settings, but it CANNOT do what I expect because messages I SEND do NOT appear in smartfolder.
Now, if someone is going to say that SENT messages should appear in Smartfolder, then we have another problem. However, as it is, Smartfolder would not appear to offer a solution.
Kostya, thank you for trying to understand what my objective is. You ask a very relevant question, why do I want to see my own image? Well, I deal with 6 email accounts every day, and receive up to 300 mails EVERY day. The average is about 230, every day. Weekend the numbers is about 100, which have to be dealt with Monday.
The mails have to be grouped together according to subject matter, or correspondent otherwise it is impossible to find them later on - can you image trying to find a particular email from say 6 weeks ago if they are all in one folder with 30 (days) x 230 (mails) + 6 x 100 = 7500?
When I receive an enquiry, all mails to/from that person are kept together in their own folder. Sometimes, I may be dealing with 2 or more people at this stage, and all mails are kept together to provide a record of what has been said. As work progresses, that folder may contain sub-folders dealing with specific self contained elements of the work, eg I am building a car, one folder may be concerned with the engine, another with the bodywork, another with the interior. There may be another folder with general discussions about time span, delivery date, cost, maintenance options etc.
So, if I have a folder with say, 600 emails in it, from say 2 others and myself, it is much easier to find the emails I want if it is obvious who they are from/to. The contact image is deal for that because it is much larger than anything else and I don't have to struggle to read small writing, a picture is instantly recognisable. Now, if I have been in correspondence with one person and have exchanged 90 mails with them, if I am looking for a particular one that I sent, with your app, I have to read the subject and/or date of all 90 because they all have the image of the contact (which is not necessarily a photo of him, it is simply some visual marker). If however, mails I sent have my image (visual marker) I only have to scan through the ones I sent. Now, if you had to do that on a regular basis to find specific emails, wouldn't you want a easy way to narrow down the mails you have to scan through?
Here's why I think an image is the best way to do it, with any email app, not just yours:
Smartfolders don't contain sent mails so mails I send can't be found there.
Smartfolders are a mix of mail from all accounts, it gets crowded in there very quickly with the volume of mails I get. So looking for a mail from one person is difficult with hundreds of mails from dozens of other people.Why mix mails about engines with those about paintwork?
Sent folder wouldn't work because it would contains mails I send to everyone, it gets crowded and hard to find one particular recipient amongst dozens (pretty same argument as for Smartfolders but in reverse direction)
Mails have to be kept together for achieve purposes to provide a complete record of everything said by everybody, keeping things in the Inbox and Sent folder mixes all mails up and doesn't keep them together according to subject. Eventually, each completed piece of work has to be archived and it is best to keep mails together from the start, both for ease of use as work progresses, and because sifting out mails for archiving later on, means going through all mails and carries the risk of accidentally misfiling an email so it can never be found. far better to keep the isolated right from the start, less risk of them getting lost and much easier to refer to when needed.
Now, I cannot explain any other way why I think your use of contact images is wrong. Other apps that use images do it the way I am trying to use them: images sent by me have my image (visual marker) images received by me have the image (marker) of the sender.
So, if you think your app uses images correctly, and others are wrong, just say so. Or, now that I've explained again, how I expect Images to be used, you agree that your implementation is not the optimum, then just say that. There are other apps out there that use images the way I (and others I've spoken to) expect, so its not as if what I ask for is impossible. However, your app has the nicest UI of those I've tested and I would prefer to use yours, but, functionality beats appearance, so if its a choice between a nice appearance but not doing the job, or doing the job well but not looking quite so nice, then I'll have to take the not quite as nice appearance.
