[Users] [Discussion]>>> [Bug 2535] New: Folders-of-folders should show total

[Cia Watson]

On Sat, 5 Nov 2011 09:16:50 -0400
Pierre Fortin <pf at pfortin.com> wrote:

> Rather than pollute the bug database with discussion, doing it here...
> when a consensus is reached, it should go into the enhancement.
> 
> >From: noreply at thewildbeast.co.uk
> >To: users at lists.claws-mail.org
> >Subject: [Users] [Bug 2535] New: Folders-of-folders should show total
> >messages of child folders Date: Sat,  5 Nov 2011 09:02:09 +0100 (CET)
> >Sender: users-bounces at lists.claws-mail.org

> >For example, given the hierarchy:
> >
> >   forms      0      0      0
> >      2009    0      3     29
> >      2010    0      0     15
> >      2011    0      2      7
> >
> >it would be nice if the 'forms' folder showed the total of the three
> >folders within it, thus:
> >
> >   forms      0      5     51
> >      2009    0      3     29
> >      2010    0      0     15
> >      2011    0      2      7
> >
> >I hope that this would apply to the RSSyl folder as well.
> 
> What about those enclosing folders which also contain emails?  This
> proposal would be confusing for such an enclosing folder...  I have lots
> of them and this would require me to change how I use CM.

I also have enclosing folders that contain emails and agree this request
would cause confusion. In fact, one of my enclosing folders is titled 'claws'
and holds email coming from mail lists. I now have the messages from this list
filtered into that folder. I would suggest a new type of folder be allowed to
be created if this functionality is introduced. 

Cia W