GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 712972
Archive by year/month
Last modified: 2016-05-16 12:30:05 UTC
---- Reported by jim@yorba.org 2012-06-01 12:08:00 -0700 ---- Original Redmine bug id: 5338 Original URL: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/5338 Searchable id: yorba-bug-5338 Original author: Jim Nelson Original description: It would be nice to bring this Gmail-ism to Yahoo!, Dovecot, etc. Related issues: related to geary - Feature #7492: Support Archive special folder (Open) related to geary - 6613: Generic IMAP server Delete should move to Trash (Open) ---- Additional Comments From geary-maint@gnome.bugs 2013-05-15 15:28:00 -0700 ---- ### History #### #1 Updated by Adam Dingle over 1 year ago Agreed. #### #2 Updated by Robert Park about 1 year ago By 'archive' do you mean 'move the selected message out of the inbox and into a folder called "Archive"'? If so, I hope that the eventual implementation of this is a bit more flexible than just how GMail does it. Thunderbird has the option to archive by year or by month, which is obviously helpful for people with very high mail volumes. Eg, my Archive.2012.09 folder has thousands of messages in it. #### #3 Updated by Jim Nelson about 1 year ago The design and implementation is still up for discussion, so it's possible we could do it the way you've suggested. #### #4 Updated by Jim Nelson 8 months ago * **Category** changed from _engine_ to _server-support_ * **Target version** set to _0.4.0_ #### #5 Updated by Jim Nelson 6 months ago * **Target version** changed from _0.4.0_ to _0.5.0_ --- Bug imported by chaz@yorba.org 2013-11-21 20:18 UTC --- This bug was previously known as _bug_ 5338 at http://redmine.yorba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5338 Unknown milestone "unknown in product geary. Setting to default milestone for this product, "---". Setting qa contact to the default for this product. This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one. Resolution set on an open status. Dropping resolution
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*** Bug 727870 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This is a show stopper. Impossible to manage non-gmail inbox without this feature.
The (useful) new feature should allow to set in which folder the email are archived.
I think like Brett Nelson this missing feature drives off a lot of people. Everyone who has a professional email in addition to a personal Gmail account cannot archive quickly professional email in Geary. We use to manage professional email as Gmail (by archiving into a single folder) and thunderbird has understood that with their big "archive" button.
For those interested in this feature, add your bounty here: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/1352603-archive-for-non-gmail-servers
Should we add the "Archive" button for all accounts, or only show the button when there is a \Archive folder available?
The Archive button should only be available on accounts that support archiving, i.e. Gmail or IMAP servers w/ an Archive folder.
Was this issue fixed in 713986? (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=713986)
I think the user should be able to specify folder per each account, Archive being by default specified for Gmail.
It's possible to do so in the config file ~/.local/share/geary/contact@example.org/geary.ini Adding the UI to choose custom folders for Archive, Sent, Drafts and other special folders is a separate problem. Was this issue fixed in 713986? (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=713986)
Perhaps the title of this issue should be changed to something like "Archive by year/month" (see first comment above). (I'm not personally interested in such a feature)
Since choosing an Archive folder is Bug 714106, and support for non Gmail servers was already added in Bug 713986, the only thing this still covers indeed "Archive by year/month". Updating the summary accordingly.