Version: 1.8.2 (using KDE KDE 3.4.3) Installed from: SuSE RPMs0 As most people I use folders to manage my messages. Messages related to project A go to folder A. Messages related to subject B go to folder B. Messages coming from person C go to folder C. etc... Sometimes a message doesn't belong easily to a folder: for example a message may "belong" in two folders. In some cases I copy the message to the several folders where it "belongs". In the previous example, a message coming from person C related with project A would go to folders A and C. Sometimes I move a message to a folder, only to find out that the next messages in that thread "belong" to a different folder. Sometimes when I want to retrieve/search for a message I'm not sure in which folder I put the messages and I just start a search from the top/root. To me it's no longer possible to manage email by keeping it in separated folders. I'd like to be able to classify messages by giving them arbitrary labels. When a message arrives, instead of moving it to a folder I classify it with labels. Instead of copying or moving a message to several folders, a message may have multiple labels. Folders become irrelevant: all the messages can be in a single folder, and you have views, each view defined by a search criteria (which may or may not include labels). In the example I gave at the beginning, instead of copying the message to two folders I would give the message two labels. This would allow for much easier management of emails, and retrieving and searching for messages would be much easier.
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Additionally, this tags should be stored on the server when using IMAP, like thunderbird 2 will do (a common solution would be great): http://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird2:Tags Handling shared IMAP folders in teams would become much easier that way.
Yes, that would be great feature!
Bug #110968 describes basically this same idea, but less elaborately. One thing that I'd like to add here from that bug is the possibility folder-like presentation tags/labels. IOW, the current folder tree could be supplemented or replaced with a tag/label tree, which would work in the following way: The root level of a tag/label tree will include all messages physically available in that tree (IOW: messages available in the specified physical folder or folders) Below the root level would be 'folders' corresponding to each tag/label available to messages within that tree. These 'folders' would include only those messages, which have the corresponding tag assigned to them. Below each first tag/label level would be 'folders' corresponding to all other tags/labels available to messages within that tree. These 'folders' would include only those messages, which have both of the corresponding tags assigned to them. And so on deeper into the folder structure. Thus messages tagged/labeled as 'work', would be found under the folder work folder, but not under the folder work/development. Whereas messages tagged/labeled as both work and development would appear in the folders work, work/development, development and development/work. Obviously the shape of the tag/label-based folder structure should be left up to the user. Otherwise even a few tags/labels would result in an almost infinite folder structure. Also, tagging messages should be possible by simply dragging them into any tag/label-based folder.
A patch which implements some of this is found here: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=36322
Yes, we have been evaluating this patch. And I hoped it would be included with KDE 3.5.6. But it needs too much work and isn't ready. So, maybe for KDE 3.5.7...
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