[Evolution] additional feature requests

["Tom Musgrove" <TomM pentstar com>]

Feature: Setup assistants for non-mail features
Description:
Requested by: Aaron Weber [aaron helixcode com]

Feature: Multiple signature files [I think this is a duplicate...]
Description:
Requested by: Misty Linville [misty cybersource com]

Feature: Templates Folder [There is a feature request named stationary,
these should merge]
Description: A folder that contains templates of standard email messages
Requested by: Misty Linville [misty cybersource com]

Feature: Remember thread expansions across sessions
Description:  Threaded views should maintain being expanded or collapsed
based on the users previous session
Requested by: NotZed [notzed helixcode com]

Feature: Plugin architecture
Description: A method for extending the functionality and features without
enlarging the central code base.
Requested by: NotZed [notzed helixcode com]

Feature: Command Line Interface access to evolution
Description: The ability to run and use evolution in a non-graphical
environment
Requested by: Numerous people

Feature: Database back end
Description: have the inbox storage be a database instead of a regular file.
Requested by: Numerous people

Feature: Non-intrusive status dialogue to indicate stages of sending and
receiving email.
Description: a non-intrusive indicator of the state of mail processing
Requested by: John Griffiths [john capmon com]

Feature: establish contact relationships
Description: The ability to assign relationships and hierarchies to
contacts, and to possibly view these relationships on an organizational
chart.  (Thus define a husband and wife and their children as separate
contacts... but easily relate them, or have a companies structure more
apparent, showing a manager and his assistant and secretary...)
Requested by: Tom Musgrove [TomM pentstar com]

Feature: Assign an attribute by dragging it to a vFolder
Description: Dragging an email message to a vFolder assigns it the common
attribute[s] of the email messages in that vFolder.
Submitted by: Ryan Heise [ryan whitewolf com au]; Tom Musgrove
[TomM pentstar com]

Feature: Unified folders
Description: Add ability to assign arbitrary attributes to emails. This
generic model can be used to implement both Folders and VFolders so that
Folders use a subset of the model, and VFolders use the complete model.
Since one is an extension of the other, the user interface can treat
folders generically and not have to worry about different types of
folders.
Requested by: Ryan Heise [ryan whitewolf com au]

This last one I would like comments on as to its clarity and such. Ryan and
I have been discussing his proposal, and have come to the conclusion that it
is actually more a concept than a feature.  Ryan would like to know if it
needs further explanation, or is sufficient as is.

Thanks,

Tom M.
TomM pentstar com