I think that an auto-prunning feature on mail folders will be cool to automate the deletion of old email.
El s?, 12-07-2003 a las 19:59, Rodney Dawes escribi�: > Hi, > > I just read this article and would like to comment on the individual > ideas. Some of them are pretty good. Others are OK, but have some > simple flaws. I'll take their ideas in order, as they come. :) > > 1) Floating PIM Pane > > This is something we definately need. It shouldn't really be > "in" the application, per se, so much as a separate tiny desktop > app, itself. Something more akin to Konfabulator/Karamba would > be great. It would be a quick easy way to see what appointments > and tasks you have for the day, as well as perhaps a quick > summary of the amount of mail you have in selected folders. Or > perhaps this could also be integrated as a module for GKrellm. > > 2) Split-view Message List > > Not sure why they say "in-box" here. Inbox is the correct english, and > is a special folder, so unless you are dealing with > multiple IMAP accounts that aren't just converged into the same > "Inbox", such as Mail.app on OSX does things. This would > probably be a good thing for Evoluton to do as well, and would > simplify the UI a whole lot. Adding multiple trees for e-mail > folders at the top of the UI would not be hard to do, but could > be rather ueseless without the new-style Outlook list widget. > > 3) Built-in Instant Messaging > > This really doesn't belong in a groupware client. The proper > thing to do, would be to provide the necessary integration with > an external IM client. Or, more preferrably, have a standard way > of doing the integration so that any external IM client could be > integrated. Shoving more crap in an already large and bulky UI > is typically a surefire way to scare people off. Though, most of > the things that are talked about here, could be done with an > external app for IM. I'm surprised that Video Conferencing isn't > mentioned here. It seems like something that would be very > useful, and should be integrated as well... For what it's worth, > I'm working on an IM client, specifically designed for total > integration with Evolution, as well as working with the > GnomeMeeting hackers to integrate with it, and to integrate it > with some of the functionality in Evolution. > > 4) Calendar-linked Auto-reply > > This sounds really neat. I would love to see something like this > go into Evolution. It probably wouldn't be very hard to do, > either, especially with the calendar abstraction and nice > filters. > > 5) Integrated PGP Encryption > > Evolution already does most of what is mentioned here. What we > really need is to integrate key management into the addressbook, > and maybe integrate some of the existing stuff a little better. > This would make it pretty easy to manage keychains and encrypt > and decrypt mail quickly and with the right keys. > > 6) Spam Auto-reporting > > Evolution can be integrated very easily with spamassassin which > can do pretty much everything listed here. The only place where > an issue of integration stands, is with providing a nice UI to > do the Bayesian classification, and manual spam reporting, as > well as white/black-listing addresses and things. Though I would > love to see us get some UI in for this, with a backend > abstraction, to allow those people who want to use bogofilter or > something else, for their filtering. It would not be that hard > to do, either. > > 7) Mouseover Contact Information > > Adding the ability to pop up a tooltip with basic information > from a VCard, when the mouse is over an address in the "Sender" > column is pretty simple. Extending on what was said in the > article, we could pull a VCard attachment from the mail, if the > person is not in your addressbook, and the mail has a vcard > attachment. > > 8) Smart E-Mail Notification > > This is something that I hope I can do some things for, for the > 2.0 release of Evolution. The ideas in this article, are > something that would be easy to do. The "Important" thing, > depends on the mailer getting support for priority flag headers, > though. Hopefully, I can get an external app to handle this, > written pretty soon. > > 9) All-powerful Right-clicking > > Evolution already does pretty much all of this. Evolution also > has VFolders, which doesn't actually move the mail, so the > menus are more bulky than typical. Even without the VFolders, > the context menus are still pretty large. I think it a better > idea to work on simplifying the UI as much as possible. The > context menus can still be powerful, even without as much stuff > in them. > > 10) Easy-access Message Templates > > The e-mail templates in Evolution currently are only available > for HTML e-mail, and you can't add your own, IIRC. Solving these > issues, adding the ability to do the stuff mentionend here, > would be pretty easy. > > Bonus) P2P Document Sharing > > This is probably done better with some combination/integration > method with Rendezvous, MultiSync, and possible one of the open > p2p protocols. > > -- dobey > > On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 15:55, Chris Woodruff wrote: > > I am new to the Evolution Hackers group and have been quietly reading all > > the posts for the last couple of months. In this time I have been trying to > > find time to ramp up on Evolution development and standards. I had this > > link saved from a while ago and thought it might have a few good points on > > the perfect email/PIM client. Hope it helps. I am also hoping to find a > > place in this project soon. If anyone has any suggestions drop me an email. > > > > http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-3513_7-5020956-1.html?legacy=cnet > > > > Chris Woodruff > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers -- Now proudly running Debian Sid+ kernel 2.4.21 + XFS _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
