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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: kmail - reply/forwarding
From:       Stefan Taferner <taferner () salzburg ! co ! at>
Date:       2000-03-17 7:47:14
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On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Rik Hemsley wrote:
> #if Roberto Alsina
>
> > > It is not that easy, as KMail might keep the messages in different
> > > folders. You would have to implement cross-folder references or some
> > > global cache of messages. Both is not good and will cause problems, as
> > > users tend to use other mail apps or command line tools on the folders.
> >
> > Well, you have indexes for all mailboxes, right? You could just real all
> > indexes when the user follows a reference. It will be slow, but that's
> > not much of a problem, since it's not a very frequent action.
> >
> > Then you open the folder which contains the referred message, and jump to
> > it.
>
> Well, searching all indices involves loading them all into memory,
> which can take a lot of space. Would it not be a better idea to simply
> add 'find reply' to the context menu for messages that are marked as
> replied-to and look in the 'sent' folder ? If people want to move
> messages out of 'sent', that's their problem ;)

Yep, that sounds better.

As long as folks don't want to have the original message for the
reply...  ;-)

--Stefan

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