GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 230589
Should be able to drag messages and folders into vfolders
Last modified: 2021-05-19 11:33:53 UTC
Please fill in this template when reporting a bug, unless you know what you are doing. Description of Problem: I understand why in this release you can't do this, but it would be nice if you could. At first it may seem like a bad concept but it's not. In addition to the normal vfolder definition, you should be able to include specific messages from other folders as well as all messages in specific folders. For example, there's a company I do a lot of work with. I have two folders for them, "occmx" and "occmx-reference". Messages relating to them also land in the inbox sometimes as well as in my "Sent Items" folder. There's no way I can use message header criteria to describe all of the messages that I manually drag into the occmx folder. For example, I may place an order or deal with an ISP technician on occmx's behalf. This exchange contains no keywords or email addresses that can be used to tie its messages into a vfolder, but it DOES relate to this company. However, if I could define the vfolder as also including all messages from certain imap or local folders, then that would be a great help. Associating specific messages with a vfolder by dragging them would be a little bit trickier, but it would just mean associating that messages unique id with the vfolder. You'd keep a reference list for any messages manually associated like this and delete the association when the message itself was deleted or when the message was dragged out of the vfolder. The vfolder definition dialogue could be updated to contain a list of entire folders associated with it and a scrollbox listing the individual messages manually associated with it. In the actual vfolder display, such messages could be marked discretely and get a "dissociate from vfolder" context menu item. Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Attempt to put an entire folder of messages into a vfolder. 2. Attempt to drag or copy a message into a vfolder. 3. Actual Results: Doesn't work. Expected Results: Ought to work. How often does this happen? N/A Additional Information:
this may be a duplicate, not really sure. Or at least partially a duplicate. I seem to recall someone asking for the ability to add messages to a vfolder by dragging them in. I don't recall a request for dragging in an entire folder, but *shrug* anyways, not gonna happen anytime soon so futuring.
adding keyword; still missing in 2.1.4.
Bumping version to a stable release.
Still in 3.2.3.
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