Add "Inbox" to "All Messages"
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@jakedfw that is the purpose of the Received view under All messages, which contains all received messages but does not show sent messages, whereas the sent view contains all sent messages but doesn't show received ones.
Showing the list in threaded mode may shake this up
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There is no Received view in "All messages." That only exists at the individual account view.
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Okay, I figured it out. There is no "received view" in All Messages. See shot below.
There is a received SUBFOLDER under All Messages that is hidden by default with no indication it exists because the down arrow to expand it is invisible unless you accidentally scroll over it with the mouse. Very odd UI choice, I think.
So this works fine as a unified inbox. I would actually add this to the documentation as a special section, because as it is, the UI is not intuitive at all on this point.
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@jakedfw said in Add "Inbox" to "All Messages":
There is a received SUBFOLDER under All Messages that is hidden by default
nah, I just tested with a new profile - it's visible by default.
@jakedfw said in Add "Inbox" to "All Messages":
I would actually add this to the documentation as a special section, because as it is, the UI is not intuitive at all on this point.
Already there. https://help.vivaldi.com/mail/mail-get-started/mail-panel/
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I agree with the OP.
I've only just installed Vivaldi so may be missing something but whilst "Receive" might omit some key folders (such as Sent), it does includes items from many subfolders in addition to Inbox (regardless of the Custom folder setting). So, for instance in my case it includes e-mails in \Inbox and \Inbox\Subfolder.
What most other clients have (emclient, thunderbird etc.) is a folder which only includes e-mails in the Inbox folder of the accounts, and does not include any e-mail from any other folder or subfolders.
[I realise there are those who think folders are a "bad" thing, but imho Vivaldi should be supporting different ways of working rather than forcing people down a particular route]
Matthew
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@mdovey agreed, Vivaldi should support different workflows, even the inefficient ones
Find your individual accounts with their respective folders in the "all accounts" section of the mail panel. You can show/hide and rearrange the order of the sections in the mail settings
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@WildEnte thanks but that doesn't address the original request unless I'm missing something.
A more concrete example:
Let use say I have two accounts - Account1 for work and Account2 for personal (this is actually a real scenario I've just anonymized and simplified - in practice there are more accounts and folders...).
Account1 has the following folders: Inbox, Sent, and a subfolder of Inbox called Stuff (perhaps that is where my previous e-mail client archived stuff).
Account2 has the folders: Inbox, Sent, and a Inbox subfolder called Done (again maybe that's how a previous e-mail client worked).
Now if I understand correctly, "All Messages" will display all e-mails from the following accounts/folders:
Account1/Inbox, Account1/Inbox/Stuff, Account1/Sent, Account2/Inbox, Account2/Inbox/Sorted, Account2/Sent
Whereas, Received will display all e-mails from the following accounts/folders:
Account1/Inbox, Account1/Inbox/Stuff, Account2/Inbox, Account2/Inbox/Sorted
What other clients have is a virtual folder "All Inboxes" which displays all the e-mails from just the following account/folders:
Account1/Inbox, Account2/Inbox
It isn't clear how to replicate this behaviour in Vivaldi.
Matthew
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@mdovey the /stuff/ subfolders are custom folders. Go into received under all messages and above the message list uncheck the "show custom folders" toggle button
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But that doesn't provide a means of display just the e-mails in Account1/Inbox and Account2/Inbox in a single unified folder.
Matthew
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@mdovey it doens't?
If you go to received and uncheck "show messages from custom imap folders", Received will show all messages from Account1/Inbox, Account2/Inbox, Account2/Inbox etc. without also showing AccountX/any_other_folder
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@WildEnte Ah, now I see. I hadn't noticed the little icons above the mail item list. I had been right clicking on the Received folders, where this is a very similarly named option which removes the Custom Imap Folders from the folder list rather than acting upon Received folders.
Matthew
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@mdovey said in Add "Inbox" to "All Messages":
which removes the Custom Imap Folders from the folder list rather than acting upon Received folders
Aaah. I see how that can be confusing. As you probably have noticed, that right click menu controls which views are available in the panel. Some prefer flags, others labels, others folders. Hardly anyone uses everything, so that setting helps cleaning up the panel...
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