Mail: Flag messages as spam/ham (not spam) [$15]

[Quix0r]

An easy and common way to move messages to "Junk" folder or from there back to "Inbox" folder.

Original ticket: #15

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[ChristophWurst]

@GretaD possibly something for you to work on?

I think we need these things (can be done in separate PRs)

1) Visual distinction of spam mails: all emails that have the spam flag should have a distinguishable styling so a user knows to treat the message with caution. I think this is particularly helpful for when the IMAP server flags the message for you but does not move it to a dedicated junk folder. Then the spam messages will still show with your other messages.
2) Make it possible to mark a message as spam/not spam via the action menu*
3) Move flagged messages to a dedicated junk/spam mailbox

* interesting enough the IMAP specification has a flag junk and notjunk, so there are three possible states: undefined, junk and not junk. We might want to do a quick research on how other clients handle this.

[GretaD]

@GretaD possibly something for you to work on?

I think we need these things (can be done in separate PRs)

1. Visual distinction of spam mails: all emails that have the spam flag should have a distinguishable styling so a user knows to treat the message with caution. I think this is particularly helpful for when the IMAP server flags the message for you but does not move it to a dedicated junk folder. Then the spam messages will still show with your other messages.

In short, to have another icon smth like this: spam icon after we mark an email as spam? And add more styling except the icon(different color of the text or smth?)?
After we(@nextcloud/designers ) decide for the the icon and other styling, i can start right away with it.

[ChristophWurst]

Yeah, either an icon or just a different color (lighter font or grey background?) IMO, but I'm not a designer :)

[Bugsbane]

I would suggest red text, which suggests not safe, but making it faded as these are not the emails a user would be wanting to read first, so we don't want to give them the strongest visual emphasis.

An icon would help as well. To be honest there doesn't seem to be a universal or even particularly great icon for spam.

Personally I would suggest not going with the exclamation with an octogon around it, as this kind of thing is typically more associated with error messages. If you want to signify either something dangerous or something that you don't want more of, either using the triangle with an exclamation mark icon or a circle with a bar icon respectively.

My preference would be the latter, as the meaning of spam is more email that you don't want, than something dangerous necessarily. Spam can be dangerous, but it isn't always. It is always unwanted.

[jancborchardt]

In short, to have another icon smth like this: spam icon after we mark an email as spam? And add more styling except the icon(different color of the text or smth?)?
After we(@nextcloud/designers ) decide for the the icon and other styling, i can start right away with it.

We do have icon-junk which is used for the Junk/Spam folders as icon already, so this is the one we should use as indicator as well. :) It is like icon-error and that is fine, cause it’s warning people to open a message. It could overlay a corner of the avatar (like the "Important" marker). Additionally we could show it in red so it’s more obvious.

[ChristophWurst]

There is a $15 open bounty on this issue

@GretaD :money_mouth_face:

[GretaD]

There is a $15 open bounty on this issue

@GretaD

First of all we did it together ;)
secondly, the link doesnt work so i guess its not available anymore, but if its still available I'm fine to transfer the amount to another ticket.

[ChristophWurst]

Just claim it and put it onto another ticket indeed :)

And please send an email to [email protected] about the broken link https://www.bountysource.com/issues/37490538-flag-messages-as-spam-ham-not-spam

For me it returns

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[ChristophWurst]

Oh wow, their website issues have been going on for two weeks already. And that is not the only time that happened recently https://twitter.com/Bountysource/status/1255733844805734400