For the last post in the Power Zimlet Series (Attach Email, Ignore Conversations, Contact Organizer, Task Reminders), we are ending on a lighter note.
Zimlet 5: Emoticons in Email
Who doesn’t love emoticons? They are core part of life online and I admit am a huge fan of them.
Historically Zimbra has always supported emoticons – but only in IM. For ZCS 6.0 (coming very soon) we have made some enhancements to the Zimlet platform (including the ability to create new ‘application tabs’) that enable us to now support emoticons in email compose as well.
When you write an email you can simply enter your standard text emoticon [example: :) ], or now you can select an emoticon visually using a button in the compose window that will insert the text for you (see below). When you receive an email, emoticon text is automatically displayed as an image.
Now, emoticons are great but occasionally you might not want to see emoticons in your email, may be because some code or some text that’s unintentionally matching emoticons. So, we have added “Temporarily Disable in Mail” to help disable emoticons. Right click on the Zimlet in the left pane, and select it, then reopen the email. Further, Double click on Zimlet in the over-view panel to permanently enable/disable it.
Enjoy!
PS: This will be shipped as a default Zimlet in ZCS 6.0.
Power Zimlet #2
Every now and then we get messages from co-workers and others that we are not interested in. It gets annoying especially when it becomes a huge back-and-forth thread of conversation. And we fall into this gray-area where we don’t necessarily want to manually filter them or, we don’t want to see such conversations either. So we end-up constantly deleting them as and when they arrive.
For example: I am a front-end engineer and I belong to a broad-distribution list called ‘engineering’. And although I usually read messages from this distribution list, at times I see message-threads regarding server-side engineering or something else that I don’t necessarily care about.
So ideally, we should be able to click-a-button to unsubscribe or ignore a ’specific’ conversation but continue to get other messages as usual.
Now with this Zimlet you get a ‘ignore’ toolbar button. When you click on the ‘ignore’ button, this Zimlet takes the subject of the message and creates a filter ‘on-the-fly’ and also move that message to “Ignored Messages” folder. Because of this filter, we will prevent any future messages of that thread from showing up in your Inbox or your folder.
And secondly, as you know, since such message threads lasts only for a week or two so, we expire these filters every 10-days(by default). This expiration date also helps in keeping the filter from bloating.
PS:
- You need to manually Turn-ON the Zimlet by clicking on it in the left-panel.
- We only create a single filter called “Move these messages to Ignored messages Folder” and we add/remove ’subject’ conditions within this filter.
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