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Bug 321556 - Hide/move local mailbox
Hide/move local mailbox
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 667833
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
2.2.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: Future
Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-11-15 23:16 UTC by Joakim Lundborg
Modified: 2012-02-09 11:32 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement



Description Joakim Lundborg 2005-11-15 23:16:25 UTC
For most users using IMAP/POP to acces mail remotely the local mailbox is of
little interest, yet it is stuck at the top of the mail view, impossible to
remove. This is bad, because the main mail account is not at the top, making it
more difficult to hit with the mouse, and just being a generally distracting and
useless entry att a prominent location.

I see two possibilities for remeding this situation:
a) Make it possible to hide/remove the local mailboxes, possibly moving the
outbox out of the "Local computer" hierachy, since this is more likely to be
relevant to the user than the other entries.

b) Move the local mailboxes to the bottom of the mail view, so that it still is
there, but is not as distracting. (This is what Thunderbird does).

I think something like a) would be better in the long run, since I'm certain an
overwhelming majority of users is using evolution for reading remote mailboxes.

Other information:
Comment 1 Jeffrey Stedfast 2005-11-16 15:13:23 UTC
moving Outbox out of that tree would be a huge kludge, so I don't like it at all.

Moving that tree to be the last tree if a POP/MBox account isn't the default
account sounds more reasonable to me.
Comment 2 André Klapper 2005-11-16 15:24:50 UTC
should be a duplicate, cannot find it, though.
this is not minor, but an enhancement.
Comment 3 parthasarathi susarla 2005-11-17 08:06:35 UTC
Agree with fejj on Comment #1
Comment 4 Poornima 2006-06-21 12:28:38 UTC
Marking for future.
Comment 5 Poornima 2006-06-28 04:54:48 UTC
forgot to confirm it.
Comment 6 Jim Rorie 2008-11-03 01:34:03 UTC
I suggested on a similar request that the local inbox folder might remain as a global inbox for multiple IMAP accounts.  The existing structure would remain in place, but an aggregate of the imap inboxes could display in the local inbox.  That would give users a one stop place for reading all new email.

Comment 7 Dick Middleton 2010-07-09 18:59:39 UTC
Time this was fixed.  This is a big negative feature of Evolution.
Comment 8 André Klapper 2012-02-09 11:32:56 UTC
In Evolution 3.4 the "On this Computer" node can be hidden, see bug 667833.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 667833 ***