Option to show first x lines of mail body in email list
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The iOS mail app (probably others as well) shows the first sentence or so an email right in the list beneath the sender and the email subject. I like this a lot because many of the emails I get have terrible subject lines ("Re: AW: FW: AW: Re: Question"), so just this tidbit of additional info helps me to quickly go through and identify those emails (to mark as read) that quite obviously don't need my attention.
Request: please add an option to show X lines of mail body under the subject line right in the email list (where X is the number of lines shown in the list - 2 would be a reasonable standard choice I think?)
If you add this option, then the ability to mark an email as read with one-click right in the email list would be an added benefit (mark as read icon right in the list)
Using the professional UI mockup tool MS Paint here's how I imagine this could look like:
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Just a technical note - this would need prefetching enabled, no? (which I would love to were it not for it being broken for me due to "[VB-82916] Prefetching reports error and no new mails are received") Though personally, with prefetching enable, I just look at the mail itself in the right.
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@felagund I guess it requires prefetching, but I do that anyway
@felagund said in Option to show first x lines of mail body in email list:
I just look at the mail itself
If I have a list of 15 mails with usually stupid subject lines from the same 5 people, I don't want to click on every mail to find the one that I need right now...
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Ok, that makes sense. Also when searching it would make sense. I had a scenario of getting a mail for the first time, where I usually do give them the one or two seconds to treat them one by one.
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Since I like this request so much I add one more detail - the idea to add quick access icons right there in the message list is inspired a little by HCL Notes (previously IBM Notes which used to be Lotus Notes ...) where hovering over an email makes those icons appear. Neat!
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Thanks, we have this reported as VB-30154 since quite a while. Hopefully we can start implementing soon.
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@atlemo oh wow thanks for the info, appreciated!
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This feature request has been implemented for quite some time now! I'm asking the mods to archive it.
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