Pin email/thread

[ChristophWurst]

Feature Request

As a Nextcloud Mail user I want specific messages to not move out of sight.

Implementation

Sort flagged (favorite) messages on the top of mailboxes

Work packages

• Add Opt -in app wide setting to enable this feature ( called Sort favorites up top) feat: add sort favorites user preference #12124
• Add a new section on top of each mailbox (even priority ) feat: pin favorites #12111
• Section should be called Favorites
• Fix reactivity issue ( toggling favorites doesn't update envelope lists) fix: favorite reactivity #12112
• feat(user-manual): Pin favorites in mail app documentation#13976

Follow-ups

Out of scope

[Sev6n]

It would make sense to implement this, as it is present in Microsoft Outlook. This screenshot is from the web application.

[ChristophWurst]

What I'm unsure about is interoperability. There are standard IMAP flags like seen, flagged, junk, deleted, and there are some common perflags $label1 to $label5 (important, later, work, etc). But nothing for pinned as far as I know. So pinning would only show in Mail, and not in any other client connected to the same IMAP server.

@Sev6n do you also have a non-microsoft email account inside Outlook maybe? I wonder if they still offer pinning, and if they write that to IMAP.

[Sev6n]

I'm sure it will be fine to have the Pin feature client-specific.

I used a non-microsoft email account in Microsoft Outlook, and it the Pin message feature seems to only persist in the Outlook interface.

[ChristophWurst]

Thanks for checking!

[Sev6n]

You're welcome!

Since this is a client-related feature, this should be straightforward to develop. Would you like me to create a visual mock-up and provide some example code of how it would work?

[ChristophWurst]

Sure!