Deltachat-android: Move read mails away from inbox does not always work

[escoand]

Currently the in-box is flooded with chat messages, hard to keep overview

[Mirodin]

I second this, some way of "archiving" read messages would be great. Thunderbird for example does move messages to folders by year/month if one klicks the "Archive" button.

Something like this would make searching old messages outside of delta easier plus I hate a full inbox, looks like I have so much stuff to do ;)

[pschwede]

FYI https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/organize-your-messages-using-filters

[Mirodin]

I know that and that is what I am doing for my "normal" mail account, but since I use a seperate address for delta and want to access it from time to time via the webinterface I have no autofilter running.

I thought about this and came to the idea that an even better approach would be that delta creates a folder for itself and moves all new messages of one contact in respective subfolders named i.e. after the contacts address. So if I chat with [email protected] delta would move all messages with him to DELTA/[email protected] and messages to [email protected] to DELTA/[email protected]. I am not sure what schema we could use for groups but I am sure, if you like it we could figure out a feasible solution.

What do you guys think about this approach? It would separate messages from different contacts and make search within one "thread" easier.

[r10s]

I'm not sure if subfolders as DELTA/[email protected] are really useful, however, for the moment, we've other priorities at all.

Regarding the INBOX at all: Well it is not really meant as a replacement for the "normal" E-Mail-client but more as a method to create an initial link between two persons sending the first mail to each other:

• If A sends a message to B and B does not know A, the message is not shown in any chat - only in the INBOX
• so B should hit "reply" on the message in the INBOX - and now the link is established.

That's what the INBOX was _initially_ for. Although I see, it may be useful for other puporses :-)

[escoand]

My first test was with my default email mailbox so I've mixed content in the inbox.
I think our friends and families with less IT knowledge are sometimes already overcharged with one mailbox.
The solution with filters only works with a desktop client but in the most cases I read my mails with my android phone.

[r10s]

move read mails away from inbox
Currently the in-box is flooded with chat messages, hard to keep overview

To the original question: To clearify: Delta Chat does exactly this for all email addresses but Gmail:

In coming and outgoing messages are moved to a "Chats" folder that is created by Delta Chat.

(for Gmails-non-folder-IMAP-structure this seems a little more tricky, so we just skipped it for the moment there)

[escoand]

Do I need to create this directory by hand?

[r10s]

Do I need to create this directory by hand?

No, this _should_ happen automatically.

[escoand]

No, not for me.

[r10s]

Which provider do you use?

[escoand]

I use a self hosted mail server with Postfix and Dovecot.

[rizzopablo]

I use my own Dovecot+Postfix server.

The Chats folder could be configurable too. And Delta may verify if the default ("Chats") already exists and use it.

[r10s]

Fixed with commit https://github.com/r10s/messenger-backend/commit/46106e036c689086162f4f2b49eba14b8380e787 , see also issue #28

If the problem is still present in the upcoming release (v0.1.20 or larger), please re-open this issue. For now, it is closed.

[escoand]

I created the chat folder by hand but Delta still not moves the messages

[r10s]

v0.1.20 or larger should do the job, it will be available in F-Droid in about 24-48 hours (or have you used a self-compiled v0.1.20?)

[escoand]

No, just looked at your referenced commit an found only something concerning folder creation.

[escoand]

Ok, I will wait for the update and try it again.

[escoand]

No, it's still not working.

[r10s]

Have you tried a fresh installation?
NB: Moving mails to the Chats-folder is _not_ implemented for Google.