What is the Archive view for?
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Hello,
I am not sure what this view is for, given
- Vivaldi's insistence that marking messages as read is essentially the same thing.
- There is no way to place messages there: no "Archive" button exists nor can you drag and drop messages there.
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But "Move message to Archive" is on the context menu. so it is not unusable. And there are buttons for it (between Spam and Trash), at least in this build. Icon looks like one of those file storage boxes. There's a "Show Archived" in the search field, and then Move to Archive farther right.
(Oh, sorry, the Show Archived button is after Show Trash; the Move to Archive button is left of the Move to Trash button. May want to be more consistent there.)
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It's "work in progress", a feature to come soon.
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@zodius it was just added... Beta software... - the use seems to be for services like outlook.com and Gmail that support moving mails into an archive. It's a workflow many people seem to be used to, so it needs to be supported I guess. Not everyone is ready to see the light of M3 and renounce the false gods of archives and folders. And yet they shall be welcomed
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@sgunhouse Here is the default "address" bar for the Mail view (5.0.2497.24 (Stable channel) (64-bit)), I do not see the "Move to Archive" button you mentioned:
In addition, there is no context menu item for archival of messages in that Vivaldi version. There is, however, "Show archived" button in the search field. -
@zodius Have you customized that toolbar at all? Though I am using Snapshot (5.1), but they should have added the button in Stable if they added Archive.
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@sgunhouse which was just released https://vivaldi.com/blog/desktop/on-to-the-next-one-vivaldi-browser-snapshot-2512-3/
Usually on Win11 running Vivaldi Snapshot builds. Opinionated about working efficiently with email. Folders are evil | Mail workflow: receive, read, reply, mark as read, done.
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@sgunhouse It's OK, I will just wait for the feature's maturity. Thank you, all. I thought I was missing some setting.
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@zodius said in What is the Archive view for?:
@sgunhouse It's OK, I will just wait for the feature's maturity. Thank you, all. I thought I was missing some setting.
Wait no more - it's in stable version 5.1.2567.39 (Stable channel) (64-bit). AND it works perfectly for me.
OziIan
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What I was hoping for with this feature is an offline archive - but alas!... it simply uses "archive" folders on online mail servers... d'oh!
