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I’m not an Outlook user, and I really dislike the product. But I wish the feature that you can write say @joel to get someone’s attention in large email thread

by setopt 2y ago

I’m not an Outlook user, and I really dislike the product. But I wish the feature that you can write say @joel to get someone’s attention in large email threads with too many on CC would have been adopted by more mail clients.

rob74 2y ago
I'm a Linux user myself, but I've since given up on using a standalone email client, and just use the Outlook web interface...
- cynicalsecurity 2y ago
  Thunderbird.
- graemep 2y ago
  Why? Because of these reactions? I have never seen one myself.
greggsy 2y ago
Something like an iMessage of mail. Surely there’s an RFC for that right?
- Andrex 2y ago
  I've always thought about just making a chat client app using email as the underlying standard. Strip out CSS and signatures (and funnel spam/marketing to a separate UI) and bam, you have possibly the most widely-interoperable chat client ever made. The ostensible "problem" with this would probably be "email is too slow for real-time chat!" But really, how much difference does a few seconds make? And modern connections/tech make me think that idea might have to be reevaluated anyways. It wouldn't be a business but I could see such an app becoming quite popular.
  - raphman 2y ago
    Something like https://delta.chat/ https://delta.chat/ ? There was also a project/protocol called Chat-over-IMAP (COI): https://github.com/coi-dev/coi-specs https://github.com/coi-dev/coi-specs
  - wiktor-k 2y ago
    > I've always thought about just making a chat client app using email as the underlying standard. I'm happy to report that this already exists: https://delta.chat/ https://delta.chat/
- wiktor-k 2y ago
  > Surely there’s an RFC for that right? Indeed, there is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9078 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9078 It's used by Delta Chat (IM over email).

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I’m not an Outlook user, and I really dislike the product. But I wish the feature that you can write say @joel to get someone’s attention in large email thread

by setopt 2y ago

rob74 2y ago
I'm a Linux user myself, but I've since given up on using a standalone email client, and just use the Outlook web interface...
- cynicalsecurity 2y ago
  Thunderbird.
- graemep 2y ago
  Why? Because of these reactions? I have never seen one myself.
greggsy 2y ago
Something like an iMessage of mail. Surely there’s an RFC for that right?
- Andrex 2y ago
  I've always thought about just making a chat client app using email as the underlying standard. Strip out CSS and signatures (and funnel spam/marketing to a separate UI) and bam, you have possibly the most widely-interoperable chat client ever made. The ostensible "problem" with this would probably be "email is too slow for real-time chat!" But really, how much difference does a few seconds make? And modern connections/tech make me think that idea might have to be reevaluated anyways. It wouldn't be a business but I could see such an app becoming quite popular.
  - raphman 2y ago
    Something like https://delta.chat/ https://delta.chat/ ? There was also a project/protocol called Chat-over-IMAP (COI): https://github.com/coi-dev/coi-specs https://github.com/coi-dev/coi-specs
  - wiktor-k 2y ago
    > I've always thought about just making a chat client app using email as the underlying standard. I'm happy to report that this already exists: https://delta.chat/ https://delta.chat/
- wiktor-k 2y ago
  > Surely there’s an RFC for that right? Indeed, there is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9078 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9078 It's used by Delta Chat (IM over email).