[#2084] allowing message redirection from mailbox screen
Summary allowing message redirection from mailbox screen
Queue IMP
Queue Version HEAD
Type Enhancement
State Accepted
Priority 1. Low
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Requester liamr (at) umich (dot) edu
Created 06/06/2005 (1068 days ago)
Due
Updated 06/08/2005 (1066 days ago)
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Resolved
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06/08/2005 awilkins (at) umich (dot) edu Comment #6 Reply to this comment
>> I also think the user is going to want a choice of either sending
>> them all as
>> one message or individual messages.  Does that help?
>
> Yes, both together do, thanks. Just as an FYI, I don't think that
> sending them all together makes any sense - "redirected" messages are
> sort of by definition not modified, and to put them all together,
> you'd have to modify them. So you'd want people to use Forward for
> that.

Chuck is right on the money here - redirecting multiple messages as one message doesn't make sense.
06/06/2005 Chuck Hagenbuch Comment #5
State ⇒ Accepted
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> I also think the user is going to want a choice of either sending them all as
> one message or individual messages.  Does that help?

Yes, both together do, thanks. Just as an FYI, I don't think that sending them all together makes any sense - "redirected" messages are sort of by definition not modified, and to put them all together, you'd have to modify them. So you'd want people to use Forward for that.
06/06/2005 awilkins (at) umich (dot) edu Comment #4 Reply to this comment

1) User selects multiple messages
2) User clicks Redirect
3) User is prompted for the address(es) to redirect to. While for our needs only a single address is needed, why limit others to our constraints?
4) User is asked to confirm if they want to redirect X messages to [list address(es)
5) All selected messages are redirected to the destination address(es), as individual messages.

I don't see a need to preview the messages.
06/06/2005 karonb (at) umich (dot) edu Comment #3 Reply to this comment
I think they would want all the mail selected for redirect to go to one address. I assume you would just go into your inbox go down the list and choose the messages and click on redirect and send it off to the new address. I also think the user is going to want a choice of either sending them all as one message or individual messages.  Does that help?
06/06/2005 Chuck Hagenbuch Comment #2
State ⇒ Feedback
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Any suggestions from your helpdesk on how this should work? One redirect window, one set of addresses for all of the messages? Or individual address entry for each message? Should each message be shown, or just their subjects, or ?

The more you can spell out a feature request, the easier it is for someone to just go and implement.
06/06/2005 liamr (at) umich (dot) edu Comment #1
Summary ⇒ allowing message redirection from mailbox screen
State ⇒ New
Type ⇒ Enhancement
Queue ⇒ IMP
Priority ⇒ 1. Low
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Our helpdesk has requested the addition of the "Redirect" action to mailbox.php's actionbar ( templates/mailbox/actions.inc ), so people can select multiple messages in their mailboxes and redirect them all at once.