GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 300871
Ignore a specific thread
Last modified: 2014-10-27 21:39:10 UTC
When subscribed to a mailing list, the ability to ignore a thread would be more than useful. Other information:
and what exactly would ignore thread do...???
It would delete all new e-mail attached to that thread. It would be good when a high traffic conversation on a subject which you have no interest in drags on. Perhaps "Delete & ignore thread" would be a better option.
it's a valid enhancement request, therefore confirming.
I would like to filter my usenet messages to ignore any usenet threads, where a known troll has participated. Note that ignore thread can be implemented in several ways. The most useful is to ignore the subtree of messages that "x-ref"'ers to a given message. Furthermore scoring down is probably more useful than killing. Thank you for evolution Niels
Perhaps deleting mails from ignored thread is too drastic, I'd prefer marking them as read. Anyhow, this would be very useful functionality.
second "mark as read" .
marking this against 2.10.x , as this feature is still not present .
*** Bug 503013 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
still missing :(
Oh man, most civilized mail clients have this.
Jorge, I'm really interested, which mail clients you are referring to, because I am still looking for one which is able to kill a thread. Anyway, 2.28 doesn't have this feature I'd really like to see.
Bug 614896 is kind of related to this. It wouldn't help with future messages delivered to the undesirable thread though - it would be great to have some kind of auto-delete set of for messages in a thread you're not interested in.
+1, this is essential feature for me, I just can't understand how it isn't available in any Linux desktop email client. Surely FLOSS developers participate in many mailing lists! @Tobias Mueller - there's a plugin for thunderbird that *almost* works. As to how it should work, the best way imho is to emulate gmail's 'mute thread' action. A lot of people use gmail and it'd best to not surprise them too much with deleting messages by default. Here's the detailed description of how it works in gmail: http://support.google.com/mail/answer/47787?hl=en
damn this would be useful and make my day a whole lot more productive.
I opened this bug almost a decade ago. I think it's safe to say it won't be done. If anyone wants to take the bug please do, otherwise I will close it.
Okay, I hope I'll not forget to mention anything here: - added in the context menu and into the "Message->Mark as" four options: Ignore Thread/Ignore Sub-Tread/Do not Ignore Thread/Do not Ignore Sub-Thread - messages received into the ignored (sub-)threads are automatically marked as read - the information about ignored threads is stored on the server (if supported by it), the caveat is that delete & expunge of the ignored thread "re-enables" it - messages within ignored thread are shown in italic in the message list - ignoring sub-thread can be inaccurate if there is missing a direct source for the received reply (as some parts of the thread can be mark for ignore and some not and the In-Reply-To message is missing, then the guess whether to ignore or not is done from References, which can be "random" messages from the thread, where the code tries to find a message which is marked to ignore the thread) There is no "remember this sender as a troll and ignore messages from him/her", it might be done in a separate bug report, but, to be honest, I cannot imagine how to do that quickly, without significant delays when searching a dedicated address book for trolls. Created commit c7e11d9 in eds master (3.13.8+) [1] Created commit 4a8c3fa in evo master (3.13.8+) [2] [1] https://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution-data-server/commit/?id=c7e11d9 [2] https://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution/commit/?id=4a8c3fa