Version: (using KDE KDE 3.3.2) Installed from: Gentoo Packages Ok, since I don't think #79825 will get reopened, I repeat my last message here. There are still a few things missing to achieve google-style conversations: 1) The sender/receiver column should be adaptible: for example, it should display sender for all emails, unless I am the sender in which case it should display the receiver (when sent mail is dumped into inbox this is a very useful feature). 2) There should be a way to sort emails (and threads) based on the most recent email in a thread. I.e., once I get a new email in a thread, I want that thread to move to the top, and in general it would be nice to have all threads sorted by how recently any activity in them happened. 3) It would be nice if one could click on a collapsed thread, and instead of seeing the parent message in the preview panel, see the whole thread layed out linearly (from most recent message down to the oldest - the same way that GMail displays threads). I think with these 3 features the feel of GMail threading could be captured a lot better then with the current capabilities of KMail.
wish #3 is bug 96968
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
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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
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