K-9: Archive multiple selected emails in Unified Inbox

Created on 28 Jan 2016 · 5Comments · Source: k9mail/k-9

Expected behaviour

An 'archive selected' button would appear after selecting multiple emails in the Unified Inbox. I noticed that this button is displayed when you select multiple emails in a specific account's inbox.

Actual behaviour

There is no button to do this yet.

Steps to reproduce

Select multiple emails in the Unified Inbox
See that there is no 'archive selected' button

Environment

K-9 Mail version: v5.007

Android version: 6.0.1

Account type (IMAP, POP3, WebDAV/Exchange):
IMAP

enhancement

Source

spollard

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Most helpful comment

"Some messages couldn't be archived as their account doesn't support this feature" would be a decent line IMO.

I think a Toast is probably fine for this.

philipwhiuk on 27 Nov 2016

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That's because some account types don't support the Archive functionality. Our current solution for that is not showing the Archive action in the Unified Inbox.

In the future we could archive messages that can be archived and leave the ones that can't be archived selected (and maybe display a message to the user stating why that is).

cketti on 7 Feb 2016

That makes sense. Thanks for letting me know.

One could detect if all the user's accounts support archiving and therefore all messages can be archived. This is my case.

spollard on 11 Feb 2016

Interested in taking this on. Is https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/issues/1041#issuecomment-181021602 still the desired functionality? Any desired copy for the message to the user displaying why the app did not archive some messages?