Bug 54435

Summary:	plugin for composer that allows composed paragraphs to be stored and retrieved
Product:	[Applications] kmail	Reporter:	sean
Component:	composer	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WAITINGFORINFO
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	luigi.toscano
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description sean 2003-02-10 22:12:30 UTC

Version:           1.5 (using KDE 3.1.0 (RC5))
Installed from:    Gentoo
Compiler:          gcc version 3.2.1
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.20-gentoo-r1

Hello folks,

I have in my mind a half-baked concept of a feature that would certainly help me throughout my email routine. The idea is for kmail's composure to separate paragraphs that I compose into "nuggets" that I can quickly access when composing future messages. This would be useless for the average kmail user (?), but for someone who spends a good deal of time answering the same question / comment in sequence from a large list of people it would be pretty invaluable.

Scenario:

I reply to Joe, who comments on an RFC, and raises a particular consideration. I then reply to Mike, who then also raises the same particular consideration. Currently, I have to jump to my outbox/sent items folder, scroll and select the message I just sent to Joe, and copy the particular paragraph I want to re-use. It would be cool if I could instead right-click inside Mike's email, then see something like "Previous Paragraphs", select it, have it pop up my history of paragraphs, and allow me to single-click on a paragraph to paste that paragraph into my composer window.

Just a thought, which raises the question: what's the best way to approach coding some sort of plugin to handle this? Perhaps I can do it.

Comment 1 Louis Rush 2003-10-25 15:56:13 UTC

ohhh, sort of a 'Canned answer repository' A.K.A an Email template

Calypso Email has one of those, It was really spiffy.  I used & miss that.

The drafts folder is what most folks think of when this comes up, but it simply is not the same thing.

In the drafts folder, once you compse a message it stays there until sent.
After the message is sent, it is gone from the drafts folder.

With email templates, you can compose complete or partial emails, and save them.  When you need to send one out, you click on it, and address it to whom ever you want, make any canges you may need to in the subject & body, then send the message.

After the message is sent, the template is still in your repository for future use.

Comment 2 Myriam Schweingruber 2012-08-18 09:00:39 UTC

Thank you for your feature request. Kmail1 is currently unmaintained so we are closing all wishes. Please feel free to reopen a feature request for Kmail2 if it has not already been implemented.
Thank you for your understanding.

Comment 3 Luigi Toscano 2012-08-19 01:05:42 UTC

Instead of creating a new feature request, please confirm here if the wishlist is still valid for kmail2.