Bug 132626 - Annotative attachments - Desirable feature for E-mail client applications
Summary: Annotative attachments - Desirable feature for E-mail client applications
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 31650
Alias: None
Product: kmail
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Compiled Sources Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdepim bugs
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Reported: 2006-08-19 11:01 UTC by Diego Iastrubni
Modified: 2007-09-14 12:17 UTC (History)
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Description Diego Iastrubni 2006-08-19 11:01:47 UTC
Version:            (using KDE Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

Today I received an E-mail message, which I wanted to save and add a
note for myself about it (annotation).
I found that I know of no E-mail application, which can do this.

Proposed feature specs:

Terminology:
- External attachment - today's attachment - is received from external
E-mail sources and sent to other users when the message is forwarded.
- Internal attachment - the proposed new kind of attachment - is created
by the user and stays on his computer, and by default is not sent to
anyone outside of his computer.  Another possible name - annotative
attachment.

Operations:
- Add an "internal attachment":
Another operation on E-mail messages (in Inbox and other folders) will
be added.
This operation will be to attach any number of "internal attachments".
- Change the type of an attachment, or a group of selected attachments,
from "internal" to "external" or vice versa.

More details:
1. Those attachments will be associated with the E-mail message as long
as they stay in the folders managed by this E-mail application.
2. They will be marked as "internal" to distinguish them from the
regular ("external") attachments.
3. When reviewing an E-mail message, the user can open an "internal
attachment" the same way he can open an external attachment, and view
its contents (which will typically be a short textual note, but can be
anything, which can be attached to an E-mail message).
4. When an E-mail message is forwarded, it is to be forwarded without
the "internal attachments" (unless they have been re-flagged as external
attachments).

Feature requested by Omer Zak, posted on linux-il:
http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-il%40cs.huji.ac.il/msg45110.html
Comment 1 Philip Rodrigues 2006-08-19 19:01:44 UTC
This seems similar in spirit to bug 130761 and bug 130763.
Comment 2 Philip Rodrigues 2006-09-06 13:51:22 UTC
Hrm, I wonder why I didn't change this to wishlist before...
Comment 3 Thomas McGuire 2007-08-12 13:29:12 UTC
Annotation are already covered by bug 31650.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 31650 ***