Bug 63374

Summary:	assign email messages to korganizer categories
Product:	[Applications] kmail	Reporter:	Alexandros Papadopoulos <sms_temp>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	jchoyt, tuju
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.5.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian stable
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Alexandros Papadopoulos 2003-08-28 14:54:01 UTC

Version:           1.5.3 (using KDE KDE 3.1.3)
Installed from:    Debian stable Packages
OS:          Linux

korganizer already has the ability to organize groups of tasks, appointments, events etc in "Categories". One can filter by category to quickly find all elements relevant to it.

For example, it's trivial to pick out everything having to do with the preparation of a dinner - all you need to do is have a "dinner" category and assign everything you want to it.

In such a situation, it wouldn't hurt being able to associate email messages to a category as well. In the dinner example, I would like to be able to tell KMail "show me emails that I've flagged as relevant to the category <dinner>".

Category handling could be implemented like a filter: If such-and-such conditions are met, assign this email to this category.

Therefore it would be easier to find out all communication that has taken place about an event, or type of event.

Comment 1 Jeffrey Hoyt 2004-10-22 18:00:57 UTC

I would view this more as a label than as a category, but the concept holds.  It'd be fantastic to label an email as a "TODO" item.   Right now I use different folders for categorization and leave messages "unread" when I have a "TODO" on it yet.  Unfortunately, I then have to remember how many of those unread messages, across many folders, are really unread vs. how many I just haven't gotten to responding to yet.

Thanks - I love KMail!

Comment 2 Juha Tuomala 2006-02-05 11:32:07 UTC

Email client is suited for messaging. It is not however, suited for organizing tasks. So we need interprocess communication here, no out of scope expansions to good program like kmail. That is discussed in bug 66566.

Comment 3 Kristian T.A. 2007-02-09 13:11:35 UTC

I'd like to see something like in Opera M2, where you can label an e-mail as  Important, Todo, Mail back, Call back, Meeting, Funny, and Valuable. Seems really useful to me. 

Like when KMail welcomes me with a frustrating amount of unread messages. I'd like to go through them first, and label them with the way I want to treat them. Then I'd go back and handle most important ones first.

Comment 4 Bram Schoenmakers 2007-03-18 00:28:31 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 50409 ***