Experimental feature added

Experimental feature added

One of the nice things about having a blog that nobody visits is that I can add CPU sucking tools and the light traffic won’t hurt it. I’ve added a new sidebar box called mail waiting. It logs into my IMAP server and checks the Pending folder in my mailbox and gets a list of messages. The Pending folder contains messages that I need to respond to. Don’t go sending me email just to see your name pop up in the list, I manually go through my mailbox and put messages into that Pending folder. I could have it list my whole Inbox but that wouldn’t really serve any purpose.

This represents a personal best though. I went from idea to implementation in 90 minutes.

While talking this over with Chim Chim we talked about making the names clickable so blog visitors could respond to my Pending messages for me. I nixed the idea, but I imagine some variation of it might be fun.