[Design] view/filters: visually distinguish based on addressing type

[Kaitlin Duck Sherwood]

I'd like it if Chandler would subtly change the display of a message 
in the list of messages depending upon how it was addressed: TO only 
me, TO me and others, CC only me, CC me and others, and BCC me (i.e. 
I'm not in the TO or CC line).

This could be implemented as a filter action, e.g.
	always
	change message color to grey

	if incoming message CC field contains me
	change message color to black

	if incoming message CC field is me
	change message color to brown

	if incoming message TO field contains me
	change message color to green

	if incoming message TO field is me
	change message color to red

It could also be implemented as a view option (which is how Outlook 
2000 does it).


This is a medium-priority request: lacking it won't kill Chandler, 
but boy is it nice to have.  It's one of the tips that makes my 
Outlook clients' eyes really light up.

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Note that indicating the addressing scheme should be orthogonal to 
indicating what category the message is in.  One might be tempted to 
sort messages by the addressing scheme and color by category.  While 
I don't want to forbid that, I think it's less useful than sorting by 
category.

It's unpleasantly common to spend a lot of time carefully crafting a 
response to a message, sending, and continuing reading... only to 
find that someone else answered that question.  When related messages 
are grouped together, it's easier to read all the messages on a topic 
before replying to any.

Yes, yes, threading messages helps -- but threading properly requires 
the cooperation of the sender (if you thread based on subject line) 
or the sender's email client (if you thread based on Message-ID).
-- 
Kaitlin Duck Sherwood
Author of the _Overcome Email Overload_ series, http://www.EmailOverload.com