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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE task orientation -> Konqueror-KMail integration / Folder
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?= <kloecker () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-10-23 18:36:52
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On Thursday 23 October 2003 15:06, Krisztian Mark Szentes wrote:
> as to the task orientation discussed on this list, I would love to
> have not only e-mail (bodies) within KMail folders but also
> documents.
>
> A usual project has several e-mails and other documents (e.g. text or
> spreadsheets) attached to it. Currently, I organise the documents in
> Konqueror folders (which are filesystem directories as we all know)
> and the e-mails in KMail folders. Additionally, I save the e-mails in
> the Konqueror folders as well, so I can search for them more easily
> and have all data at a single glance. Usually, e-mail text gets
> recognized as simple text in Konqueror, so when I click on it, I open
> it in the default text editor. Even if it gets recognized as e-mail
> text, I cannot pass any command line arguments to kmail to open it as
> e-mail (it just gets set as e-mail body text as a whole, including
> all the headers).
>
> So it would be great if I could create folders in KMail and associate
> them with filesystem directories, and open(/store) files from (into)
> them within KMail. [I can choose the maildir format and store there
> documents but they do not get displayed and I cannot arbitrarily set
> the maildir location]. Konqueror, on the other hand, should open
> e-mails right in KMail. This needs decent MIME magic and new KMail
> command line options.

KMail is and will always be an email client, no more, no less. But at 
some point it might be possible to directly show email messages in 
Konqueror or a not yet existant Task Manager.

> P.S. Are binary attachments (screenshots) welcome on this list?

No. Put them on a webpage.

Regards,
Ingo
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