Perform tone analysis before sending an email

[marioguerriero]

Mail could perform tone analysis on email content before the email is sent. An example of this feature would be:

• Quantify politeness/impoliteness while sending professional emails e.g. job applications, and warn the user in case he has been too rude
• If a user is using an angry tone to answer to a kind request, he could be warned with a message like "are you sure you want to use this tone?"

There already exist several implementations of this kind of systems (IBM Tone Analyzer) and there exist several datasets which could suit this problem (Politeness, Emotion Detection in Text datasets)

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[jlnr]

Somewhat related, I often could've needed a warning when I sent a mail saying "here's the file" with 0 attachments. I know there's at least one plugin for Apple Mail that does this.

Maybe warnings like this could be implemented through some kind of generic check?

[marioguerriero]

It would be great to have it. By the way those kind of warnings are much easier to implement. I suppose that a simple matching for some keywords would be enough. Of course this approach would not be very flexible but I doubt there is any other feasible way of implementing it.

There are already several implementations of this feature e.g. in Thunderbird. Maybe we could have a look at how they do it.

However I believe that you could report a separate bug it as the two features are technically unrelated.

[SamMakesCode]

I think the suggestion to detect if there ought to be a file attached is great. Thunderbird also does this.

It's not my call, but I don't know that we should be reminding people to be polite. Goes beyond the scope of a mail client in my opinion.