272632 - Add (optinal) "special" message groups

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[lev]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/0.9.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/0.9.1

To facilitate better and easier overview of email items, it would be great if
there was support for "special" groups to show up when messages are shown in a
grouped view. 

These special groups would be shown at the top of the groups list, and include
messages based on certain pre-defined rules. (This can later be potentially
expended to include user-defined filters). 

Example special groups could be "unread non-junk messages", "messages marked for
followup", "messages with high priority" etc. A message appearing in one of
these special groups would still appear in any group it would normally fit into
(for example, a message could be in both "Unread Non-Junk" and "Today" if groups
are ordered by date) 

The options screen would allow each of the pre-defined special groups to be
enabled or disabled using a checkbox style control.

Such groups would allow users to see at a glance emails that need their
attention and/or response, and would make high-volume email accounts much more
manageable

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

You mean expanding 'message grouping' (group sort) to work with 'saved search
folders' (virtual folders) ? That's bug 267727.

Comment 2

[lev]

(In reply to comment #1)

Not really - I'm talking about implementing groups that are a result of a search
within an existing folder, not enabling groups when viewing a search result.

Besides, that bug seems to be a result of the submitter mistakenly typing into
the quick search field thus disabling grouping.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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