Re: [Geary] Feature request: Browse mail by contact panel

[step21 <step21 devtal de>]

Personally (currently just a user of geary) this seems like it would
only work for very specific scenarios. For example as I understand it,
it would break down in case of frequent mails from different adresses
or from unknown adresses. As far as I understand if people are not
using self-organized folders because they prefer it, the main solution
is to provide good search.
So personally, as a user, I would be against geary switching to such a solution.

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 2:24 AM, Gunwald Neuhausen <gunwald gmx de> wrote:
> I would like to propose a new function to Geary, which – in my humble
> opinion – would solve the unsolved problem, how to browse through the huge
> amount of mails many of us getting every day.
> Nowadays almost every mail client offer a folder view to browse through
> different mail accounts and their IMAP folders. With out any question this
> is useful, but I think, their would be a better way to browse our mail: To
> browse them by contact. There for I would propose to integrate Geary with
> the evolution data server, to enable it to show instead of the folder view a
> contact view.
>
> This contact view could look similar to the left column of Gnome contacts.
> It would list the contacts stored in the evolution data server, but ordered
> by the last mails I got or send to them. That means, if I would have got an
> mail form contact A three minutes ago, but from contact B 10 seconds ago, B
> would be in the first place.
> Clicking on the contact would list all mails I ever got from it in the
> second pane.
> Middle click on it would list all mails I ever send to that contact.
> The contact panel would also offer a search field, to search only in the
> listed contacts.
> Of course the folder tree view should not be completely removed, but you
> should switch between the the contact panel and the classic folder tree.
>
> What do you think, of such a feature?
>
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> Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 17:36:14 +1000
> From: Michael Gratton <mike vee net>
> To: Kristian Rink <kawazu428 gmail com>
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> Subject: Re: [Geary] IMAP / gmail performance?
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> On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 5:02 PM, Kristian Rink <kawazu428 gmail com>
> wrote:
>
> The last of these symptoms is something I kind of managed to track
> down
> using sql and network logging: Our corporate IMAP server is pretty
> large (in terms of mail spool size and in terms of available IMAP
> folders for different internal purposes). A load of messages in there
> contain *large* attachments (documents between 5 and 50 megabytes of
> size). Generally, mail traffic in most of these folders is extremely
> high during daytime. Looking at the logs, it seems geary generally
> gets
> extremely busy periodically iterating across all these folders and
> permanently synchronizing / downloading new messages.
>
> Hmm, so are most of these folders in a shared/public IMAP namespace,
> that you know of? I.e. folders not in your own personal account? If so,
> do you need access to them from Geary?
>
> Unfortunately I haven't found any way to influence this behaviour.
> Expectation would be to simply tell the IMAP client to please ignore
> certain folders or subfolder hierarchies in the IMAP tree but I
> couldn't figure out how to do that (if it's possible with geary after
> all...).
>
> This is usually what IMAP mailbox subscriptions are for, and which
> would likely take care of this for you ? assuming you don't actually
> want to subscribe to those folders. Currently, Geary doesn't pay
> attention to that however:
> <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=713449>
>
> Not storing attachments in the database
> <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=714061> and not downloading
> attachments by default
> <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=714094> might also help.
>
> //Mike
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