[Evolution] Re: Suggestion : auto contact vfolder (Jean-Marc V. Liotier

[Andreas Soellner <andreas planethope net>]

I think that would be great - i think that would sort out my question i had about keeping track of all mail correspondance with specific contacts in a nice easy and efficient way - without having to set up folders manually. However wouldn't that mean that mean that you will potentially have a long list of subfolders which can get quiet a pain to look through if looking for mails to a specific contact. Wouldn't it also make sense to add a button within the contact-editor dialog from which to access the e-mail in the corresponding v-folder - so you can get a complete history of e-mail correspondance within the contact-editor. just a thought.



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> From: "Jean-Marc V. Liotier" <jim jipo com>
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> Organization: Jipo
> Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 17:34:20 +0100
> Subject: [Evolution] Suggestion : auto contact vfolder
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> I use plenty of sorting of the incoming mail to various folders
> according to which mailing list, project, company, group or machine the
> message refers to. But many of the contacts I interact with are actually
> members of several groups. Therefore it is not easy to keep a whole
> picture of the interactions. That is a shining application of vfolders :
> a vfolder with the contact's address a key will give me just what I
> need.
>
> But I have seen many co-worker's who sort by contact and do not know the
> power of the vfolders. They are no power users and never use filters :
> they believe it is way too complicated for them to use, they claim to
> have no time for learning and my evangelisation attempts about how
> filtering changes everything have so far failed. Most of those users
> only have an Inbox folder, and the ones who have sub-folders only sort
> manually. So what I propose is to automate the creation of vfolders for
> contacts to give those users a simple, fast and easy way to set up user
> based vfolders so that they can take advantage of that type of filtering
> without having to actually set up sub-folders and filters manually.
>
> Here is how I see it work : In the Vfolders top level folder, a sub
> folder would be named "Contacts". In the contact card, a button "create
> a new vfolder with this contact's addresses" would create a new vfolder
> in the Vfolders/Contacts folder.
>
> That's it. A simple way to leverage the power of vfolders by making them
> accessible to lazy users. Ergonomically speaking, it costs an additional
> button on the contact card. I do not know how much code that
> functionality represents. Am I the only one to think this feature may be
> interesting, or are there other who share my views ?
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