| Summary: | gmail-style threading of messages | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] kmail2 | Reporter: | Dmitriy Morozov <kde> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs> |
| Status: | CONFIRMED --- | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | annma, greatbunzinni, ict, john, kde-bugs, mail, olekgutjwr, robertpolson, silver.salonen, xxxsemoi |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Gentoo Packages | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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Description
Dmitriy Morozov
2005-02-02 04:15:46 UTC
As I read in #79825 now I can put my conversations in a folder to have a gmail style view at them. What about if they are in different folders?? I preffer having all my sent mail in a single folder. You could set up a virtual folder that would search for all the mail on which you are the sender. Would that work? Virtual folders might help *when using kmail*. The problem is I use IMAP (a bunch of reasons to do so) and I use kmail only when I'm at home. In all other cases I use a web interface (very pooor). That's why I find it better to keep the folders that way. IMO the decission is to have a virtual folder that will track the letters accross folders and will show the complete threads... but I don't believe my kmail (1.7) will handle this. Of the things that this poster has wished-for, it seems like having threads be sorted by the "most-recently-appended-message" would be the nicest, and, for me at least, the most important. When you're using threads, and you've got a lotta messages, it sure would be nice if threads appeared at the bottom of your message list, when they had new mail in them. OBOY, would that be nice. --chet-- I recommend looking at the Opera Mail client that comes with the Opera browser. It supports something like "cached imap" in Kmail and at the same time keeps a database on threads. So when i read an email, i can see the whole conversation above the current message if i like, no matter in what IMAP "folders" these messages might be. This is really great. Actually, Opera had this long before GMail. I want to point out that this concept of "inbox" and "outbox", while almost everybody might be used to it by now, in fact sucks. It is an adaption of what could be found on desks in big corporations or state offices before computers were common. A fella with a small cart would be collecting stuff from "outboxes" and deliver them to other "inboxes". This metaphor is not fitting anymore to electronic communication, i doubt it ever did. There is no real reason why a conversations should be broken up inside the email client, like: question is in "inbox", answer is in "sent". If i want to reconstruct the thread i have to jump around in different folders ... or i have to organize so many folders that it becomes difficult to handle. Please look into this. A first step would be a link or button in the header of a message that would open a window with the message the current message is a reply to. (There is a feature like that in the email client "The Bat!" for Windows, many people use it only because of that feature.) Best greetings, drx *** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. *** *** Bug 141359 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 127576 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** This works best if the whole thread is present. Something like gmail's Archive function (see bug 89100) would be helpful. Are there any plans to implement this feature? Isn't this bug duplicate of https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25594 ? This feature request is still valid for KMail 2 *** Bug 277366 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** |