GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 224979
When flagging an email for follow up, also add a task to ToDo list
Last modified: 2021-05-19 11:36:53 UTC
It would be nice if when a follow up flag is placed on an email, it would add a task with the same title as the follow up and the same completion date to the TODO list.
too late to add this for 1.2.0
This sounds like one of the more important things I registered so I could mention it. It would be very useful if I could send a message and, as part of the process, record an entry in "something" to alert me that an expected response hasn't arrived. A related item is the ability to keep all correspondence for individual contacts together (like you would with paper correspondence). I'll get to that latter; I'm noting it now so you make the connection.
this is definetely in the plans to do when I implemented Flag-For-Followup, but unfortunately at the time, the Calendar component did not have a CORBA interface to allow adding alarm items to the Tasks (or some such). In fact, afaik, this is still the case. So I suspect that the earliest this can happen (seeing as how we are currently "feature frozen" for the 1.2 release) is in the 1.4 development cycle, however it is unlikely that it will be added there as the plans for 1.4 are strictly a GNOME2 port afaik (ie, no new features).
An idea from bug 228041, which probably belongs here: A followup flag should really be handled as a task, i.e., setting a followup flag should create a task that's "linked" to the followup status of the message, and all the nifty details of tasks would also apply to followup: recording the time of completion, having a list of contacts that have to be involved (i.e., "forward this by such-and-such a date to these people), % completed (the message might be a longish proposal or whatnot). If you do something to the task (e.g., mark it completed), it also does the same for the followup-status of the message.
it can't be a task because the calendar doesn't support that yet. but yes, this is something we want to do eventually.
*** bug 231065 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** bug 244885 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
updating version number
Bumping version to a stable release.
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.
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