Re: [Evolution] Feature requests - My list

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 01:31, Alan wrote:
> Since people are asking for features, I might as well add mine to the
> pile.
>
> 1)  Allow searching on headers.  Sometimes I have an e-mail that has
> information in the headers that I want to find in other messages.
> (Tracking down virus propagation, for one.  Some other sysadmin-type
> uses.)

this is hard to do in any reasonably since it would require the parsing
of all messages in a folder on the fly - and that is a huge task.

the options that are currently available for searching are things that
are cached in memory always so it can always be really fast.

> 2) Ability to define the port numbers that pop3 and imap connect to.  (I
> use SSH to tunnel from my laptop to my mail server to transfer mail back
> and forth.  It would be nice to not have to use fetchmail or other hacks
> to move the mail.  One hack is enough.)

you already can.

hostname:port

> 3) Ability to set an e-mail folder to move all mail before a certain
> point to an archive folder.  (Which can be burned off to DVD or some
> other location.)  I know I can do it with a separate Perl script, but I
> would prefer a method that does not require rebuilding the indexes each
> time.)  This one would help with large collections of mail and machines
> with less than a gig of memory.  (On my old system I had to close
> everything to get to my mail due to the amount of folders.)
>
> 4) A conversion routine for importing Evolution 1.x ~/evolution
> directories into Evolution 2.x.  It is helpful when you are moving mail
> between systems.  There may be a routine for this, but the import menu
> item is not it.

this works automatically when you run evolution 2.x for the first time

Jeff