[Design] Chandler IMAP folders and the mail-stamp

[Philippe Bossut]

FWIW as a user feedback, I usually do not unstamp the mail-ness as I 
find the "from/to" addresses useful info (though having contacts in 
Chandler would make it even more useful... I know, I know...).

There's actually *one* situation I take the email-ness out is for events 
that become recurring: because of the way we display recurring events in 
the Triage Table, recurring mailed events tend to multiply like crazy in 
the DONE section when viewing my mail. This annoys me to no end since 
one of the thing I like so much about Chandler is that, instead of 
having long threads on an item, we keep only one single item alive, 
simplifying the management of tasks and events. Well, in the case of 
recurring events, we achieve the exact opposite.

One solution would be to filter recurring events more drastically when 
displaying Mail. That certainly points to the idea of having a 
specialized view for Mail rather than using the same Triage Table View...

Cheers,
- Philippe

Mimi Yin wrote:
> Hi Andre,
>
> I think there are some compelling use cases for preserving mail-ness 
> on task items, if only as a way to identify and record who the task is 
> associated with (e.g. My aunt wants me to, My boss wants me to, etc.).
>
> A preference would be good.
> A way for users to define custom behaviors for their own IMAP folders 
> would be even better.
>
> Would multi-select and unstamp a whole bunch of items at once ease 
> your pain as a more realistic near-term stop-gap measure?
>
> Mimi
>
> On Aug 30, 2007, at 2:07 PM, Andre Mueninghoff wrote:
>
>> +1 for an option to not have MailStamp turned on for what are really not
>> mail items
>>
>> Also, I think it would great to have an option to have Chandler delete
>> the items from the Chandler IMAP folders (particularly Task and Event)
>> after they are downloaded and imported into Chandler.
>>
>> Cheers, Andre
>>
>> On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:00:16 -0700, "Jeffrey Harris"
>> <jeffrey at osafoundation.org> said:
>>> Hi Folks,
>>>
>>> We were just discussing in IRC that it might be nice to have an option
>>> in Chandler to make items imported from Chandler IMAP folders (Chandler
>>> Tasks, say) not have the MailStamp turned on.
>>>
>>> In bug 10726, it looks to me like Andre was going through and 
>>> unstamping
>>> mail from his tasks.  I, too, find the mail details mostly just
>>> distracting for events and tasks I import from IMAP, so I'm often
>>> tempted to go unstamp their mail-ness.
>>>
>>> This is a change unlikely to be made until several months out point, 
>>> but
>>> I'm curious if other people think this might be valuable?
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>> Jeffrey
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