what’s new and upcoming
We posted a new build tonight without the “demo” branding — woo hoo! With a reasonable storage allocation and open acknowledgement that this is a heck of a lot more than a demo, we hope a few more of you will start using it on a regular basis. (My apologies to your friends who still have to learn how to spell l-a-s-z-l-o. For the moment, we have registered quite a number of misspellings, so you’ll probably get their email anyhow. Of course, your Hungarian friends will do just fine.)
You may notice that we’ve changed the number of messages displayed next to each folder on the sidebar to the unread count rather than the total number of messages. We made this rather arbitrary decision about a year ago, which was fine for our initial feature set. We have an implementation of message filters (aka “rules”) in the works, and it’s pretty nifty if you can easily see how many message you need to look at in various folders that get filtered messages. I use this feature in Thunderbird all the time. The filter feature is one of the most requested features by all you folks using Laszlo Mail in the wild and by our development team internally, so we’re pretty excited about this. (Even more requested is the ability to import contacts from another program, so you’ll be seeing that even sooner.)