On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Andre Klapper <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 11:07 +0100, Leon Zawodowiec wrote: > > Is it possible to open email files (.eml) from command line with > > Evolution, the same like a new email? The problem occurs when recoll > > returns a search result (which is a file in a filesystem) and > > Evolution doesn't support anything like '--file' to open it like > > regular message. > > > > Is it possible to do it in current release or take into account in > > future releases of Evolution? > > "xdg-open ~/whatever.eml" allows you to import emails into Evolution. > Emails are normally attached to an email account and Evolution is meant > to manage such email accounts, hence it offers you importing "outside" > emails via the Import UI. > I don't see a large usecase for your example but patches are welcome. > This is a very common scenario in corporate use, many people save important email messages (ie a proposal from a subcontractor that you used in your own offer, etc.) for future reference on a certain project folder, rather than keeping them in an archive. So yes, it would be very good if Evo could do it. I think kmail can do it as well as Outlook and Thunderbird. PS. This may be related to my inability to open emails attached to other emails in a separate window.
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