Mail contributor week brainstorming ideas

[marcoambrosini]

1. ✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️ More discoverable multi-select and bulk operations
2. ✔️✔️✔️✔️ Very slow and flaky syncing
3. ✔️✔️✔️ Translate email to my language
4. ✔️✔️✔️ Enable routing of certain types of emails emails directly to a folder (like work reports). GUI for sieve filters Filtering of Incoming messages #44
5. ✔️✔️✔️ Emails that were moved to a folder are still displayed in the inbox. Deleted emails should stay deleted. -> Improve caching system. Several people stopped using mail because of this. Externally deleted emails show up in the inbox and cannot be deleted #9168
6. ✔️✔️ Create tasks in deck from emails Create Deck card from email #5900
7. ✔️✔️ Enable markdown by default
8. ✔️ Don’t loose formatting upon copy paste (e.g. notes to mail)
9. ✔️ Quick filters missing close to the search bar (unread, favourites)
10. ✔️ Improve counters calculations and placements 0(230)
11. ✔️ Collapse mailboxes in the sidebar
12. ✔️ Auto delete spam
13. ✔️ Preloading email body for faster viewing
14. There’s no unread marker in threads
15. Shared mailbox or folders
16. Setting mail reminders
17. Preview upon hovering attachments
18. Small mail editor bottom right that doesn’t block the interface
19. Real search (not only subject and people)
20. Tags in navigation
21. Collapse previous messages in replies
22. Alert to respond to important emails
23. Auto mark emails in folders as read
24. Auto add flights and hotel bookings to calendar (it’s there but not visible enough)
25. New message composer fullscreen
26. Setting priorities for mail from important people
27. relocate action buttons (move to the bottom / sticky)
28. Associate folders with mailing lists
29. Calendar events embedding
30. Spam filter that works
31. Restrict closing tab while undo send is available
32. Mail action menu is not intuitive, difficult to scan, condense action menu in the same menu
33. Improve empty content when opening mail app
34. Recipients are missing in each email in threads
35. Delete email option inline in the wide view

FYI @ChristophWurst @jancborchardt @nimishavijay

[marcoambrosini]

@ChristophWurst could you please work with your team to link existing issues to each item and or create new ones if you think it's needed?

[LostinSpacetime]

14. should have a higher priority in my opinion. The way threads are handled, right now, makes by far more problems than it solves. As I understood, this is not an easy problem to solve. Until then, it would be much better to be able to disable threads.. or at least to make the filter for unread messages work.

One other thing that the teachers in our school are often complaining about, is that forwarded messages don't contain images. This is pretty bad for newsletters, for example. This doesn't seem to be a priority at all.

[ChristophWurst]

I appreciate the feedback @LostinSpacetime! Finding the right priority is tricky as everyone has different needs. The result above are based on a group of randomly selected people that use Nextcloud daily. Perhaps @marcoambrosini can add some context to the ticket description for the people who did not participate.

[Aveyron-RetD]

Number 2 and 5 should be solved with the newly landed commits ❤️.

[ChristophWurst]

More discoverable multi-select and bulk operations

@marcoambrosini @nimishavijay do you have ideas or suggestions for a more discoverable UI? Should we show the checkboxes all the time?

[marcoambrosini]

I think we should yes @ChristophWurst

[meichthys]

@marcoambrosini
1: #10231
2: #8545 #10199 #10179 #10039
3: No existing issues (related to #10062)
4: (Already linked to issue above)
5: (Already linked to issue above)
6: (Already linked to issue above)
7: No existing issues (related to #9858)
8: Perhaps fixed in #9608 (and related to #9858)
9: #9958 #5489
10: #8622
11: #9300
12: #9217
13: #7770
^ These were the only ones that had the mysterious ✔️ next to them so I didn't bother with the others.

As a daily user of Mail myself, I look forward to the improvements!
Also, if i may be so bold to say that more dogfooding of the Mail app may reveal the day to day annoyances better than asking for a wishlist from users.

[BiglifeMatt]

The areas that still prevent us from adopting this over SnappyMail:

1. Search... it never returns, just times out trying to retrieve any data (Can't load inbox)
2. Sieve settings do not have a user friendly setup.
3. The ability to respond to inline calendar requests from outside email such as Google calendar requests from external users.

[alexanderdd]

Hello,

Maybe do some user testing during contributor week? Find a volunteer or maybe NC employee, let them work with Mail, screengrab the whole work day? I would be up for it but would have to check internally beforehand.

Issues

I would be very happy if you can consider one of these issues for the contributer week:

1. One of the things that I miss the most is a search that finds what I want. Example:I just entered "keyword" in the search bar, open advanced search, click unread - it does not show me the email (that I know exists) that is unread and has "keyword" in both the sender adress and in the subject.
2. this bugs me every week when I copy something from Text to Mail Pasted markdown lists are not displayed in CKEditor #9858
3. this is pretty important usability IMO tag modal: click on tag to apply (instead of button next to it) #9215
4. also mailto: links are shown as suspicious links, should not be the case: "href: mailto:[email protected] : link text [email protected] "This is on cloud.nextcloud.com.

Thank you for working on this! 🚀