[TriLUG] I just figured out what evolution is missing

[Ed Hill]

On Sat, 2002-01-05 at 16:33, Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney wrote:
> I've been using evolution as my mail client for the past week
> exclusively, and it rocks.
> 
> Except it needs a speelchucker.


Yeah, it does!  

I completely switched around X-mas and so far I love Evo.  Its 
been quite stable and has a lot of cool and useful features.

That said, I'd like to see the following stuff added:

  - a column that reports whether any particular email has 
    been forwarded, replied-to, etc.  A set of links to all 
    the relies/forwards (some sort of threading) would be 
    very cool...

  - Ability to read/work with new emails while others are 
    still downloading (ala mozilla) over your crappy 56K 
    connection...  :-(

  - faster parsing of email folders at startup time (perhaps 
    by amortizing/delaying the parsing work)

  - different handling (or more configurable handling) of 
    deleted files--I like the netscape/mozilla default 
    handling were deleted files are just moved to the trash 
    folder and then I can empty the trash on a, say, monthly 
    basis.  That way, I can dig through old emails if, maybe 
    a week later, I want to re-read something.

  - better scripts for importing mozilla email folders (ok, 
    I should probably write this one this myself as it took 
    a while figure out how to convert all my dozens of sub-
    folders over to the Evo format...)


Any other Evo improvement ideas?

Ed


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