Bug 728290 – Ability to open emails

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Bug 728290 - Ability to open emails


Summary:	Ability to open emails


Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 401668

Product:	evolution
Classification:	Applications
Component:	general
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other All

Importance:	Normal normal
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Evolution Shell Maintainers Team
QA Contact:	Evolution QA team

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Reported:	2014-04-15 20:06 UTC by Ángel
Modified:	2014-05-03 10:37 UTC

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Description Ángel 2014-04-15 20:06:54 UTC

It should be possible to open a single email in evolution. That is, given a rfc5322 file, open a window showing its contents.
You don't even need a configured identity.

Currently, your only workaround is to manually put it into an existing folder.

The most common offender are probably email with other emails attached.


The related feature of opening a mbox provides a for importing (although the ability of opening without importing would also be nice there. The preview box is too limited).


Expected location for the new action:
 - Open a file given as a command line parameter
 - Inside File menu (like thunderbird), launching a GtkFileSelection

Comment 1 André Klapper 2014-05-03 10:37:40 UTC

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 401668 ***