Version: 1.7.1 (using KDE 3.3.0, SuSE) Compiler: gcc version 3.3.4 (pre 3.3.5 20040809) OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.8-24-smp It would be a very nice thing if I could tell an email (sent or received) to show up again on a certain date, to remind me of that mail. In german you call that "Wiedervorlage". Example: I send an email offer to a customer, and after a week or two, I want to call that customer to ask if the offer was OK. So what I would like KMail to do is to show a window on startup which gives me the list of mails that I have to work at today. Or maybe KMail creates a ToDo-List in the calendar, where the ToDo is linked to the related Mail. Andy
I think you are basically requesting something like Bug 78336. If you can link a TODO item or KOrganiser entry with an email message, you can be reminded about the email message. It would also be nice if you can associate a TODO item with a contact in your address book. Do you agree on filing this bug as a duplicate of Bug 78336?
I think Bug 78336 is slightly different from what I am trying to say. Bug 78336 wants to associate address book entries with email sent to a certain contact. What I want to do is to send an email and tell this mail in the same step to show up again in two weeks, for example so that I can check if the recipient has responded to my Mail. This means that an email gets additional properties. Not only date, from, to, cc, and so on, but also a field "show up again on [Date]". Can you see the difference? A.
Yes, I see the difference. But I think it's rather ugly to have Kmail write stuff in email messages that only KMail can understand. Also, Kmail will need to scan all your mail messages for these remind settings. Maybe Kmail can use the existing TODO/reminder framework to do this. Another possible solution: Add mail categories to Kmail. Allow the user to see: * Sent mail messages that I did not get a reply from (ordered by send date) * Received messages that I have not replied to (ordered by receive date) * Received attachments (file iconview) I guess such a feature would be useful to you?
> But I think it's rather ugly to have Kmail write stuff in email messages that > only KMail can understand. Also, Kmail will need to scan all your mail messages > for these remind settings. KMail wouldn't have to write things into the email files. There could be a file with all the additional things in it, linking to the corresponding mail(s). > Maybe Kmail can use the existing TODO/reminder framework to do this. This would be fine, yes, if the corresponding mail was just one click away of the ToDo, and if I could create a ToDo-entry directly out of KMail into the ToDo-List. > Another possible solution: Add mail categories to Kmail. Allow the user to > see: > * Sent mail messages that I did not get a reply from (ordered by send date) > * Received messages that I have not replied to (ordered by receive date) > * Received attachments (file iconview) Here you are thinking too technically. Maybe the recipient gave the answer on the phone, or gave it in another Mail. Or maybe I don't expect an answer by mail, but I expect someone to do something, and I want to check if he really did it.
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Ooops, sorry for the posting before, here is the missing "o": Hello everyone. What will be the next steps in this thread? Will the KDE-People think about my suggestion, and implement it or not? Will the decision be reported here? Greetings from Munich. Andy
It will be reported here, unless we forget. That is, sadly, a real possibility, given the number of requests for improvements we get. If we do forget, and in the next version the feature is present, you can close the bug.
This is popularized by the Getting Things Done sect as the 'tickler file' as we discussed at the chinese restaurant in Osnabrueck - it would be nice to be able to do this for any PIM data item.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 46136 ***