Re: [Evolution] What do I do now?

[Paul Smith <paul mad-scientist net>]

On Sat, 2022-10-22 at 13:55 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> So the way to get it working as a proper mailing list is by turning
> off Mailing List Mode. So intuitive.

Agreed it's really poorly named.  I think the idea is that if you
enable it then it's as if the entire Discourse site becomes one huge
mailing list that everyone is sending stuff to.

I don't know why hardly anyone would find that useful.

But, the method of "subscribing to mailing lists" in GNOME Discourse,
is to add tags to your "Watched" list and tell Discourse to email you
about all "Watched" items.


IMO the way the GNOME Discourse site is organized is unfortunate: they
created broad categories like Applications, Desktop, etc.  Then they
use tags to choose specific applications within them.

It seems to me that it would be more useful/usable to create separate
categories for each application like Evolution, etc. then tags could be
used for different types of issues within the application, such as (for
Evolution for example) IMAP, Exchange, UI, etc. etc.  This would also
mean that it would be simple to sort email because the category DOES
appear in the subject of the email, while tags are nowhere to be found.