Re: [Evolution] [Fwd: e-mail client of dreams]

[Ettore Perazzoli <ettore ximian com>]

On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 13:20, Michael Rothwell wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 12:46, iain wrote:
> > > http://home.cnet.com/software/0-8888-8-9161160-1.html
> > Interesting, although Evolution can do, or does a few of these, some of
> > the ideas are a bit "iffy" IMO.
>
> A few are actually good ideas.
>
> 3) Built-in instant messaging
> ICQ integrates with Outlook. It would be nice if there were an API for
> integrating Gabber, Gaim, etc. with Evolution.

There is some IM work on a branch on CVS.  Anyone would be welcome to
finish it.  :-)  We have been thinking about this for a while; we just
don't have enough time to do it.

> 5) Integrated PGP encryption
> Got it! Woo! But the integration could be a little tighter. This is
> probably as much a problem with GnuPG as Evo.

Yeah.  The right way to do it would be to integrate the keys into the
addressbook (and make that general enough that you can implement S/MIME
encryption on top of that too), and somehow link that to the pgp key
management.

We thought about it for 1.2 but it is non-trivial to do it right. 
Again, another possible task for people who are willing to help.  :-)

> 9) All-powerful right-clicking
> It would be nice if Evo included a "flag for follow-up." These flags
> would be one more thing to include in the "mouseover contact
> information" popup.

We have a flag for follow-up feature on the unstable version now.

-- 
Ettore