✉️ Mail brainstorming sessions

[hamza221]

Contributor week 2025

• 5️⃣ handling of read/unread status for all messages in threads #5308
• 5️⃣ Selecting threads should work across date groups #11973
• 4️⃣ Search is not very useful. Buggy, long loading times, no message text included in the search
• 3️⃣ Ignore a thread #11767
• 3️⃣ Overlaying composer, non blocking. Currently the mail composer in its small mode blocks the entire user interface. It would be nice to align with the industry and have an overlaying composer, bottom right, that does not block the rest of the UI.
• 3️⃣ Composer is too narrow #6589
• 3️⃣ persist, and style more prominently, the “sending mail” popover in the top-right until the mail is sent. closing the browser tab (at some undefined point) before success leads to the mail 1. not being sent and 2. not being saved to drafts, so the UX should make it really clear that the tab needs to live (and remain online) until the mail is sent
• 3️⃣ Mail filter templates, offer default filters provided by the admin (ex: work reports)
• 2️⃣ Do not always reveal recipient details automatically when filling in a recipient. Or at least remember the last time a user dismissed it. This increases space for the actual content and reduces unnecessary clutter.
• 2️⃣ Have a desktop app :)
• 2️⃣ Attachment is not included in email when it contains special characters, e.g. German umlauts #10671
• 2️⃣ Quick emoji (❤️ 👍 ✅ 🍕 🐱 🐶 ) reply - reducing long thread/noise
• 2️⃣ Subject line visibility - long subject line with ‘EXTERNAL’ takes too much space, and the actual subject cannot be seen. Any way to make it visible when it’s ‘External’ mail, or a short and colorful tagging system, maybe?
• 2️⃣ Customize hover actions
• 1️⃣ Spam filter
• 1️⃣ reply to self in thread should not start a mail to yourself (but instead address the mail to non-self thread participants)
• 1️⃣ allow using the Mail composer outside of a modal dialogue right now clicking outside of the modal by accident closes it and a notification that reads “Draft saved” appears. The WIP message is not actually stored in the “Drafts” folder however, but in the bottom right and gets lost when reloading the page
• 1️⃣ closing a completely empty new mail (albeit with your signature prefilled) saves a draft. this leads to a huge pile of empty drafts, which is unhelpful (and hides actually valuable saved drafts in the pile)
• 1️⃣ Caching of message body request conflicts with trusted senders #11788

Company week 2025

• Better mobile performance / usability #10941
• Have a non view blocking composer Being able to navigate while writing a mail #2831
• Improve Important flagging
• Improve searching functionalities ( quick actions, simpler interface) related Tagging everything as important before learning is extremely annoying and counter productive #9769
• Don’t scroll in long email body container , expand the message instead
• Shortcuts ( change mailboxes, archive, spam) Quick actions #10936
• Search in body in quick actions
• group tagged messages in tagged folders ( potentially colour coded folders)
• Rethink external mail flagging ( red mail address looks like an error )
• add a quick mark as spam button (move to spam folder to help with server side spam detection)
• mark quoted text with a different colour
• Inaccurate send later due to cron job scheduling ( find a way to either warn the user or make it more accurate)
• Slow initial sync for large mailboxes
• Quick actions ( mark as read, archive )
• Bug in mark all as ready ( mark all as read -> filter unread )