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Functional Scope of Kontact Mobile - KMail

Following you will find a set contaxtual actions available in the different views Kontact Mobile - KMail offers. This way the functional scope is defined.


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Category Action Status Comment
General New Email
Search For Emails
Work Offline
Minimize Window
Quit
Configure Mail
Edit "Out Of Office" Replies
Manual
Report Bug Or Request Feature
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Home

Category Action Status Comment
Home Synchronize All Accounts
Send All Unsent Emails
Select Multiple Folders
Empty All Trash Folders
Import Emails
Configure Filters
Favorites (OrderFlap) Reorder
Delete
Accounts (OrderFlap) Edit
Delete
Add
Identities (OrderFlap) Add
Modify
Rename
OK

Account

Category Action Status Comment
Account Synchronize This Account
Local Subscriptions
Account Properties
New Subfolder
Export Emails From This Account

Single folder view

Category Action Status Comment
Folder Synchronize This Folder
Mark Displayed Emails As Read
Move Displayed Emails To Trash
Remove Duplicate Emails
Expiration Properties
Empty Trash only if folder is a trash folder
Export Displayed Emails
Edit Folder Properties
New Subfolder
Move Folder To
Copy Folder To
Delete Folder
View Add View As Favorite
Switch To Editing Mode
Prefer HTML To Plain Text
Load External References
Messagelist Display Format

Multiple folder view

Category Action Status Comment
Folders Synchronize These Folders
Mark Displayed Emails As Read
Move Displayed Emails To Trash
Remove Duplicate Emails
Export Displayed Emails
View Add View As Favorite
Select Folders
Switch To Editing Mode
Prefer HTML To Plain Text
Load External References
Messagelist Display Format

Message viewer

As an overlay button on the message we need a "magic next" button. This button jumps to the next unread message (even if that is in another folder).

Category Action Status Comment
Email Reply
Forward
Mark Email As
Send Again
Create Task From Email
Create Event From Email
Find In Email
Save Email As
View Use Fixed Font
Copy Email To Clipboard
Show Source
Email Encoding
Show All Recipients
Attachments Save All Attachments
Edit Edit Email
Copy Email To
Move Email To
Move Email To Trash

Functional Scope of Kontact Mobile - KMail Composer

Following you will find a set contaxtual actions available in the KMail Mobile composer. This way the functional scope is defined.

Note: categories are still preliminary! list is still incomplete!

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Category Action Status Comment
Message Send Later
Save As Draft
Save As Template
Edit Search In Email
Continue Search
Replace
Clean Spaces
Add Quote Characters
Remove Quote Characters
Check Spelling
Options Urgent
Request Notification
Wordwrap
Use Fixed Font
Attach Public Key
Crypto Message Format
Signature Append Signature
Prepend Signature
Insert Signature At Cursor Position
Security Sign
Encrypt
Snippets Insert Snippet
Add Snippet
Edit Snippet
Remove Snippet
Add Group
Rename Group
Remove Group
Composer Configure Transport
Close Composer
Minimize Window

Functional Scope of Kontact Mobile - KMail Configuration

Following you will find a set of settings that need to be available in KMail Mobile.

Note: categories are still preliminary! list is still incomplete!

Category Action Status Comment
Appearance Show HTML statusbar OK
Replace smileys by emoticons OK
Reduce font size for quoted text OK
Composer Automatically insert signature OK
Insert signature above quoted text OK
Prepend separator to signatue OK
Use smart quoting OK
Automatically request message disposition notifications OK
Use recent addresses for autocompletion OK
Word wrap at column OK
Configure completion order OK
Edit recent addresses OK
Configure standard new mail/reply/forward templates OK
Replace recognized reply prefixes OK
Replace recognized forward prefixes OK
Outlook compatible attachment naming OK
Enable detection of missing attachments OK
Misc Empty local trash folder on program exit OK
Invitations Outlook compatible invitations OK Merged version of the first 5 options in the corresponding desktop dialog, adding all of them explicitly is fine as well, but this is probably something that should be changed in the desktop version as well
Automatic invitation sending OK
Delete inviataion emails after the reply to them has been sent OK

Open

Here you can find functionallity that still needs to be discussed, wether it makes sense to add it to the mobile version of KDE PIM.

We do not need this

  • Print, Rationale: not practical from a handheld decive, most have no printer connection
  • Shortcuts (keyboard "accellerators"), Rationale: not needed in a touch screen handheld
  • General Sieve Skripts
  • Out of office replies - use web-interface if needed
  • Multiple views - substituted by favorites concepts
  • Select all text - shortcut - not needed
  • Expire all folders - should be done automatically - no need to show this in the interface
  • Refresh local imap cache - not needed in KDEE 4.5 -
  • Undo

We need to discuss this

  • Templates (Format of replies etc.) - global, identity, folder - what do we need? - if possible move to external configurator - definitely no templates needed for folders
  • Certificate Manager - we need to provide basic features on the phone, supported by Kleopatra on the desktop; analysis of problems should be possible mobile
  • What does subscription actually do? Belongs to account level.
  • View source - how expensive is this?
  • Use fixed font - how expensive is this?
  • Copy - check that copying text is possible
  • General log viewer should contain: GnuPG log viewer, KDebug, Std. Error, ...
  • To many receivers warning, if replying to X addressees a visual reminder or dialog should be shown
  • Which email forwarding "modes" do we need? Currently with e3.5 it's possible to forward a mail "in line", "as attachment" or to redirect a mail.

We need to integrate this

  • Show message structure - we need some smart solution to handle multiple attachement and enbedded mails and to include parts of other objects into object (e.g. mail - to substitute drag&drop)
  • Filter
  • Threads / Move thread to trash / Mark thread as...
  • Anti-Spam (we will not provide an anti spam program - but we should be able to sort incoming mails by server added tags)
  • Anti-Virus (we will not provide an anti virus program - but we should be able to sort incoming mails by server added tags)
  • Folder specific sync & bandwidth and netstatus specific sync parameter
  • Fulltext search in attachments
  • Attachment missing warning if the email text contains the word attachment or "Anhang"