GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 202319
Reminders on old email? (feature request)
Last modified: 2001-04-25 22:00:14 UTC
It would be nice if you could apply something (a filter perhaps?) to mail so it would remind you to reply within X days. I thought perhaps a filter action so you could match "If date received before 7 days ago and sender is BigBoss, remind me to reply". But since filters dont run constantly, maybe it could create a Task which is linked to the email? Or a new thing altogether? I dont really know the internals of Evolution well enough to make a proper suggestion but maybe someone would know how to implement this.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 200090 ***
You could just create a virtual mail folder of 'new than 7 days' and 'from boss' and 'not replied to'. Probably easier to use than any messy calendar interaction at that.
It would be nice though if you could have more detailed boolean logic for your vfolder rules? Something like: "older than 1 week" && "not replied" && ("from boss" || "from manager") Otherwise you're stuck with having ALL not-replied mail in there, or having 1 per sender :/ (especially bad when your boss has multiple addresses?)
You can type in your own s-exp to perform this match, but its more complicated. Use the filter type 'expression'. The gui just doesn't support multiple entries in matches but the code mostly does. e.g. if you write an s-exp you CAN do something like (match-all (and (whatever it is for flag not seen) (whatever it is for last week) (header-contains "from" "boss" "manager"))) And no, there isn't any documentation really for this yet, apart from the source (which contains a little human readable doco).