GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 401668
Use evolution to open email files directly without importing
Last modified: 2021-05-19 11:36:57 UTC
Distribution: Ubuntu 6.06 (dapper) Package: Evolution Severity: enhancement Version: GNOME2.14.3 unspecified Gnome-Distributor: Ubuntu Synopsis: Use evolution to open email files directly Bugzilla-Product: Evolution Bugzilla-Component: Mailer Bugzilla-Version: unspecified Description: Please describe your feature request: It would be particularly handy if evolution could open emails directly, without importing them. This should then be the default association of text/x-mail (according to file -i, or whatever) such that messages may be simply double-clicked to view. An example of this is the file association of *.eml files to Outlook Express on windows. This should be relatively easy, is this something already possible that I'm missing? A perfect use case would be this very bug report which I created with bug-buddy. Unable to send directly with sendmail (only my evolution account has been setup to send properly), I chose the save-to-file option. It would have been nice to double-click the resulting output file and have it open in evolution... :) ------- Bug created by bug-buddy at 2007-01-28 12:57 -------
*** Bug 504535 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This would be very useful, really. I just had to install Thunderbird so that I can watch email files exported from Evolution (to a doc manager) easily, which is total nonsense... :-)
*** Bug 204521 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 728290 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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