Re: [Logicmail-users] Feature requests

[Derek K. <dko...@lo...>]

See below for my comments:

On 01/09/2011 02:45 PM, KwangErn Liew wrote:
> Thanks for making such a wonderful application! I hope to contribute as
> much as possible, even though I'm not an avid programmer.
There are plenty of needed skills besides programming, such as 
documentation, translation, graphic design, and simple constructive user 
feedback.

> I've been using it briefly and I notice that the following features are
> lacking, is this in-development? Or something unplanned for? I've
> searched around the bug tracking but can't quite find it.

> - Mark messages unread/read
This was actually in 1.1 (user-contributed patch), but never managed to 
make its way into the 2.0 code.  Since 2.0 is already in string-freeze 
(so the translations can hopefully be brought up to date), I'm putting 
the feature ticket for this into the list for 2.1:

http://www.logicprobe.org/proj/logicmail/ticket/270

> - Mark labels for each email
Can you be more specific?  This is something that is obviously 
IMAP-only, and support for non-standard labels might be inconsistently 
supported across servers.  So if a feature for this is designed, I'll 
need some examples of how its normally done.

> - Enable message threading
You know, I've never actually enabled this feature on my desktop clients 
(mostly Thunderbird these days), but I can see how it could be useful. 
It might look a little awkward with a partially-downloaded mailbox, 
though.  It would also be quite complex, since it would require a 
completely different mailbox screen design.  (and one that might be a 
challenge to make touchscreen-compatible)

So I'm not ruling it out forever, but it might be a little too much for now.

> - Removal of double dashes in signature (optional)
Adding those double-dashes was actually a specific user request. 
Apparently, they're the standard way of delimiting the signature block 
in E-Mail (technically its two dashes, a space, and a line-feed), so 
clients can detect the signature.  Can you give me an example of another 
e-mail client that adds then, optionally, so I can see how they 
configure that?

> - Offline storage of IMAP emails, whilst having updates whenever possible
I already cache any message you read, so that's done.  What I don't do 
yet is robust background polling and/or message download.  That's the 
signature feature for 2.1, once I get the time to start designing it. 
(2.0-beta issues and correspondence may keep me busy for a while)

> - Sort generic labels/folders/directories to the top level, i.e. Inbox,
> Starred, Sent, All Mail, Trash, etc. Labels come underneath it.
This is actually a decent idea, and one that might not be too hard to 
implement.  For now, it'll just do folders that are specifically 
configured (i.e. Sent/Drafts), since the IMAP spec doesn't specifically 
mention any folder names beyond INBOX.  Assigning this one to 2.0 for 
now, but it might get pushed to 2.1:

http://www.logicprobe.org/proj/logicmail/ticket/271

> Am sure there are many more, but I hope that there's a comprehensive
> roadmap that'd make Logicmail more feature-pack for usability.

Just look at the web page, and especially the Milestone items on the 
"Roadmap" tab, and you'll see everything currently on the roadmap.

> I look forward to understand Logicmail more and BB+JVM in general to
> help in development where possible.
Help is always appreciated!

Thanks.

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