Re: [Evolution-hackers] feature request for virtual folders

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

this list is only for people willing to write patches - you are looking
for the users list at evolution ximian com

that said, the first feature request is already filed in bugzilla.

Jeff

On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 20:36 +0200, Emperor wrote:
> hello guys,
> 
> i just moved from kmail to evolution due to instability issues. now here
> are the features I am missing:
> 
> When you select the folders, the message should be from, you should also
> be able to select if you want to include subfolders.
> 
> Imagine following folders:
> 
> mail
> 	personal
> 		person a
> 		person b
> 		person c
> 		person d
> 	bulk
> 		newsletters
> 		mailing lists
> 
> and you want to create a vfolder that shows personal mails from this
> week. you just select the personal folder and check the subfolder
> option, and then you don't have to add message source folders if you
> create other ones for new contacts.
> 
> 
> my second request would be a filter field correspondents (or another
> name) which would be the sum of the recipients and sender. Would be
> really useful if you want to sort your mails in a chat like manner
> (mails from and to a person in a folder).
> There should then also be an entry in the context menu for creating
> filter "from and to xx xxx xxx".
> 
> 
> It should also be possible to filter mails against contact folders and
> groups. So a kind of "if recipient is in contacts"-filter (same with
> sender and of course "corresps"). Or "if recipient is in group xxx".
> This makes it easy to sort mails into contact categories by just moving
> contacts around or adding them into groups.
> 
> 
> 
> In the future, it should be possible to create a vfolder as subfolder of
> a mail folder with a button in the quick search toolbar.
> 
> to have for example:
> 
> mail
> 	person a
> 		this week (from this week)
> 		project a (with keywords in it)
> 
> to create a such vfolder, you would simply search for something, and
> then click on an icon "create vfolder as subfolder".
> 
> 
> what is your opinion about these features?
> 
> 
> greets.
> 
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Jeffrey Stedfast
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