Bug 55374

Summary:	Editing a Mail in any folder
Product:	[Applications] kmail2	Reporter:	Patrick Huber <phuber>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	annma, bluedzins, cyberbeat, gsasha, marek.online, nicolas, niwi-hh, raju
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.99.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	how the embedded editing/creating of a mail might look like

Description Patrick Huber 2003-03-01 13:53:35 UTC

Version:           1.5 (using KDE KDE 3.1)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:          Linux

There have been quite a few requests regarding mail editing in the outbox or drafts folder.
I wonder why you separate drafts and out mail from received mail in that matter... So here's my sugestion:

1) make all mails editable by double click in the list view as well as in the display area (where i read the mail body).
2) add an option in the settings to let the user choose from the traditional popup for editing and creating mails and the idea that  follows below
3) embed the popup's content in the display area. since we're talking of qt, this should not be too hard (never worked with qt myself, though) so I can edit mails without the annoying new window.

double clicking into the display area from 1) and complete 3) are features actually implemented by ibm's lotus notes and I consider these quite useful.


kind regards

Comment 1 Patrick Huber 2003-03-01 14:17:58 UTC

Created attachment 1081 [details]
how the embedded editing/creating of a mail might look like

Comment 2 Sybren Stuvel 2004-02-28 17:01:59 UTC

I'd love to see this. I get many voicemails in my email, and all have the same "voicemail in email" subject. I often use Mutt to give these mails a more descriptive subject. It would be very nice if I could stick to KMail for this!

Comment 3 info 2004-08-12 17:46:01 UTC

Related: Bug 55576 (message subject line editing)

Comment 4 Torsten Frey 2005-08-22 12:56:02 UTC

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Comment 5 Jonathan Marten 2006-11-23 18:54:54 UTC

*** Bug 122211 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Jonathan Marten 2006-11-23 20:50:49 UTC

*** Bug 110041 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Thomas McGuire 2007-02-08 16:52:42 UTC

*** Bug 141382 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Thomas McGuire 2007-02-08 21:11:38 UTC

*** Bug 130761 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Bram Schoenmakers 2007-03-09 22:22:31 UTC

*** Bug 119378 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10 Thomas McGuire 2007-07-17 18:42:23 UTC

*** Bug 147953 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11 Salvador Petit 2007-10-15 12:22:32 UTC

For me, it would be enough if the "Edit message" (T fast-key) command were enabled in any folder.

Comment 12 Jonathan Marten 2007-12-15 16:07:41 UTC

*** Bug 154103 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13 Maciej Pilichowski 2008-01-02 19:48:33 UTC

And another related report:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31650

Comment 14 Anne-Marie Mahfouf 2011-12-01 11:46:36 UTC

Please check KMail2 and report back on what is still needed.

Meanwhile reassigning to kmail2 product

Comment 15 H.H. 2011-12-08 15:47:46 UTC

its nice, that I can edit any message in kmail2, but if I edit a message and save it, a copy is stored in draft-folder. In most cases the original should be overwritten? other opinions?