GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 260891
Link Emails with Tasks
Last modified: 2021-05-19 11:46:29 UTC
I would love to use Task's for more, but there is something I can't find. It would be great to link Emails with Tasks. So if I create a Task, I can associate certain Emails with it. Right now I see two tabs, Basic and Details. You could include a third called "Emails", and just have a list of the emails associated with that task. Allow me to open the email, reply, etc. You could extend this so that filters in the email portion could create tasks. I have emails that come in from a web form that are standardized, and I would love to have each one that comes in automatically create it's own task. Of course, you could then say any replies or forwards of that original message would automatically be assigned to a task. This would make keeping track of tasks very easy. And finally, you could also include a fourth tab labeled "Documents" that include attachments that are received or sent. This would merely be a list of the attachments from the "Emails" tab. Just some ideas, and my wishlist. Thanks for making Evoltion, it's great and use it every day.
As of version 2.2.2, there is some rudimental realisation to attach files, but it is not working as expected. For example, if I drag an email to the Attachements, it is attached, but there is no way to see that message. There is a possiblity to create tasks from emails, but linking emails would be very nice feature, too. The idea to have a documents tab, where all attached files in the linked emails are shown and can be launched for preview is a brilliant idea, too
there is currently (since 2.6 iirc) a mail-to-task plugin. Although it's still not what you described, it's a start.
*** Bug 426395 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Would there be any love to this request? I'm using latest evolution from git master compiled today, I can create a task from an email but that merely copies email content to the task. What I need (like in Outlook), to link that email to the task, for example using the follow-up flag function, so that I can be reminded in the Reminder window when due date comes. It's a nice feature found in Outlook 2007 that let's you track your emails and actions. Clicking such task shall open the email, so that I can also find associated emails, see its thread, etc. etc. Copying the mail to the task is losing that information.
I tried this again in 3.20.3, sadly still the functionality is not there. It synced my Tasks well that I created in Outlook, but only the ones that are real tasks. Tasks created from an email does not appear in the list, hence making me loose a lot of stuff I have to track and remember. It would be good if this could be implemented and with the functionality to obtain existing tasks and their links to the emails.
Actually, I saw that there is a field in the email list which is called "Due Date". If this could be used to link those into Tasks view, with reminders window etc, that would be really great.
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 (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 https://wiki.gnome.org/Community/GettingInTouch/BugReportingGuidelines and create a new enhancement request ticket at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/ Thank you for your understanding and your help.