Am Mit, 2003-08-27 um 07.42 schrieb Jack Coates: > On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 11:59, Emperor wrote: > > hello guys, > > > > i just moved from kmail to evolution due to instability issues. now here > > are the features I am missing: > > > > When you select the folders, the message should be from, you should also > > be able to select if you want to include subfolders. > > Instead of waiting for Ximian to add the function (unlikely anyway) just > create a vfolder named Eveything. Date received is before now, select > all local folders and any other folders you want (Inbox and Sent aren't > normally included in local folders for some silly^H^H^H^H^Hvery sensible > reason that I don't know). Then go to that vfolder and use the search > bar. > > This performs a lot better than you'd expect. and is a good starting > point for the rest of the things you've asked about. >
The problem is that this way does not clean up your folders. Yes you can do a lot of stuff with that approach, but you can still have chaotic folders or only inbox... You need filters to sort your mail, vfolders are only virtually cleaned up ;) Filter against address book is really useful as a whitelist for spam and to recognize newsletter and more automatic mails. Nils > > > > my second request would be a filter field correspondents (or another > > name) which would be the sum of the recipients and sender. Would be > > really useful if you want to sort your mails in a chat like manner > > (mails from and to a person in a folder). > > There should then also be an entry in the context menu for creating > > filter "from and to [EMAIL PROTECTED]". > > > > Go to Everything and type the person's name into the search bar. > > > > > It should also be possible to filter mails against contact folders and > > groups. So a kind of "if recipient is in contacts"-filter (same with > > sender and of course "corresps"). Or "if recipient is in group xxx". > > This makes it easy to sort mails into contact categories by just moving > > contacts around or adding them into groups. > > > > ditto. > > > > > > > In the future, it should be possible to create a vfolder as subfolder of > > a mail folder with a button in the quick search toolbar. > > > > to have for example: > > > > mail > > person a > > this week (from this week) > > project a (with keywords in it) > > > > to create a such vfolder, you would simply search for something, and > > then click on an icon "create vfolder as subfolder". > > > > > > what is your opinion about these features? > > > > > > greets. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
