I really enjoy the way Google’s Gmail displays related messages (or threads) as conversations. David Morrison has been working on a plugin for Evolution which tries to replicate this behavior. The last news items was on August of 2005 asking if he was done.
I think it still needs a little bit more work, so I’ve written up a specification for Gmail’s conversation feature.
Of course, once you do all that, it always turns out that someone else has written something similar already and for the same reason.
Particularly I like the thing that Gmail also adds sent messages to any threads it may have. I tried to replicate this using vfolders, details on my blog.
Thanks,
and bongo project fork from novell’s hula, uses this by default … it is great. Also, thunderbird supports this also.
Luis: I followed Hula development with interest for some time, and I remember that conversation threads were of interest to the developers. I never got to see it working, so I’m pleased to hear it is working well.
As for Thunderbird, I was not able to figure out what you’re talking about. I ran Thunderbird, and created my account. Then I opened my INBOX and selected View -> Sort By -> Threaded. The messages appeared nested in threads, but not in conversation threads.
Maybe it’s a extension I need?
Enver: Yup. I have my Search Folders set up in a similar way. It’s very VERY helpful.
Hey,
I have done some more work on the conversation view in the gicmo_rework branch some time ago. Getting the messages as a conversation is not that big of a problem but displaying it right as a plugin is not that easy. The code written during SoC by the student also was not that excellent. I guess if we wanna do that right, we would have to directly integrate it into Evo not as a plugin.
Cheers,
Christian
Hey — followed the referrer link from taint.org. I think your writeup is a more useful, concrete specification; mine was just a wishlist. 😉 Thanks for writing it. It’d be great to see more MUAs offering this “conversation view” — I still greatly prefer it as an email UI.
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce
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