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 _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
