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Bug 230589 - Should be able to drag messages and folders into vfolders
Should be able to drag messages and folders into vfolders
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
3.2.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: Future
Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
evolution[selections] evolution[vfold...
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-09-19 04:49 UTC by Trever Furnish
Modified: 2021-05-19 11:33 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement



Description Trever Furnish 2002-09-19 04:49:51 UTC
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Description of Problem:
I understand why in this release you can't do this, but it would be nice if
you could.  At first it may seem like a bad concept but it's not.  In
addition to the normal vfolder definition, you should be able to include
specific messages from other folders as well as all messages in specific
folders.

For example, there's a company I do a lot of work with.  I have two folders
for them, "occmx" and "occmx-reference".  Messages relating to them also
land in the inbox sometimes as well as in my "Sent Items" folder.  There's
no way I can use message header criteria to describe all of the messages
that I manually drag into the occmx folder.  For example, I may place an
order or deal with an ISP technician on occmx's behalf.  This exchange
contains no keywords or email addresses that can be used to tie its
messages into a vfolder, but it DOES relate to this company.  However, if I
could define the vfolder as also including all messages from certain imap
or local folders, then that would be a great help.  Associating specific
messages with a vfolder by dragging them would be a little bit trickier,
but it would just mean associating that messages unique id with the
vfolder.  You'd keep a reference list for any messages manually associated
like this and delete the association when the message itself was deleted or
when the message was dragged out of the vfolder.

The vfolder definition dialogue could be updated to contain a list of
entire folders associated with it and a scrollbox listing the individual
messages manually associated with it.  In the actual vfolder display, such
messages could be marked discretely and get a "dissociate from vfolder"
context menu item.

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Attempt to put an entire folder of messages into a vfolder.
2. Attempt to drag or copy a message into a vfolder.
3. 

Actual Results:
Doesn't work.

Expected Results:
Ought to work.

How often does this happen? 
N/A

Additional Information:
Comment 1 Jeffrey Stedfast 2002-09-19 05:02:28 UTC
this may be a duplicate, not really sure. Or at least partially a
duplicate.

I seem to recall someone asking for the ability to add messages to a
vfolder by dragging them in. I don't recall a request for dragging in
an entire folder, but *shrug*

anyways, not gonna happen anytime soon so futuring.
Comment 2 André Klapper 2005-02-12 12:23:42 UTC
adding keyword; still missing in 2.1.4.
Comment 3 Matthew Barnes 2008-03-11 00:22:02 UTC
Bumping version to a stable release.
Comment 4 André Klapper 2012-06-16 22:14:02 UTC
Still in 3.2.3.
Comment 5 André Klapper 2021-05-19 11:33:53 UTC
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org. 
As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org
which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately
quite limited so not every ticket can get handled).

If you can still reproduce the situation described in this ticket in a recent
and supported software version, then please follow
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Thank you for your understanding and your help.