[sylpheed:33120] Re: My personal view about the future of Sylpheed.

[Antonio Ospite]

On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:00:51 +0200
Nairolf Relsserp <airflow.2010 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Antonio Ospite wrote:
> 
> > The question is: how do I imagine Sylpheed 2.8?  Forgive the selfish
> > post, it's just to start up some discussion.
> 
> Hello Antonio and all others,
> 
> well I just will add my 2c...
> 
> I really like Sylpheed and the way it works and looks. But I had an
> epiphany regarding how messaging-systems in general should work, like
> mailclients or be it the SMS-application on your phone.
> 
> Putting sent mail into a folder named "Sent Mail" and keeping it
> separated from the mail you are answering is not very intuitive and
> not a very logical way to do. I used this system for myself for the
> last fifteen years, but in the meanwhile I think that's not a good
> idea. Keeping mail-conversations as "threads", which can be moved as a
> whole between the folders is much better.
> 

I agree.

> I don't know how much work it would be to offer at least an option to
> store mails like that, but I guess it could be doable. Sylpheed
> already has mail-threads implemented, it's just the question where a
> sent mail is put in the first place.
>

Hi Florian, all this can be done already using filters.
In fact I store my messages the way you propose.

For every account, just setup a filter which matches From, To and CC
(or maybe Received) which contains the account address and move the
matching messages to a dedicated folder for that account.

The assumptions I use to make this system work are:
 - These "personal mail" filters come after filters for mail coming
   from mailing lists.
 - It is very unlikely that the same mail is sent to more than one
   of my accounts at the same time.

> Best Regards,
> Florian Pressler
>

Ciao ciao,
   Antonio

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