This looks helpful. I have a tendancy to forget IM's the instant I write them and seem to be checking constantly to see if I have or have not sent/read/deleted things.
The only things I don't see being particularly useful are:
- added a backup box that allows you to save messages
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You don't really mean to have us piling up IM's in a backup box, do you?
Are you forgetting about a certain IM containing a certain montage?
But actually, the backup box is limited to the same amount of IMs as the in- and outboxes are.
- You can select the default ordering of messages, or re-order them on the fly using either the time, subject, or name values
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Since we can't keep more than 10 messages, how much ordering' do we need to do?
The limit isn't set to 10 any longer - and possibly won't be set at all once we get around to making the final move from this interim host.
The explanation of that feature is a bit misleading, anyway, because it makes it sound as if individual users can select their own default order but, in fact, only Administrators can set it and that setting is the same for everyone. (I just set it to descending by date, newest to oldest, which seems the most useful.) Users can only "re-order them on the fly" - but that order only lasts while you're still in a particular section. Once you leave and come back again, the sort order reverts back to the default.
Otherwise.....looks like an honest-to-goodness improvement!!
I'm glad you approve.