Snooze mails

[jakobroehrl]

Feature Request

To keep the inbox clean and clear it would be nice to snooze mails for x hours or y days.
Often the inbox is a kind of todo list. So if you can't do the todo right now you can snooze it for later.
Of I you send an importand mail you will keep track of it. So you can snooze the send mail and it will apear in the future, so you can ask about the status or send the demand again.

Summary

snozze a mail and move it automaticly back to the inbox after the choosen snozze time has expired

• Requires Store non-standard message data in UID-independent format #3664

Work packages

• Shallow prototype (in case MVP is not doable for feature freeze Hub 6 groupware#70)
  • Add an action for Snooze to messages but only temporarily remove the message in the frontend
• MVP
  • Add action Snooze with a few simple time ranges that moves the selected message to a dedicated "Snoozed" mailbox. System saves the timestamp until when the messages is snoozed.
  • Background job watches messages in Snoozed/Later and moves them back to INBOX when the time expires (source mailbox before snooze is not saved)
  • Message moved back to INBOX is sorted as usual (not yet at the top)
  • Nextcloud notification for expired snoozes
• Snoozed mailbox created at first use. Mailbox name is localized in UI. Create Snooze Mailbox on first Snooze #8742
• More detailed time ranges via a custom date picker part of the mvp
• Deactivate Snooze on Ajax background trigger #8745
• Sort message back to the top will not be done
• Mail: Snooze messages documentation#10968
• Force sync of snoozed mailbox #8758
• Snooze: Clean up leftover DB entries #8763

Follow-ups

• Move messages back to their original mailbox (not the INBOX) Snooze: Move message back to src mailbox #8779
• Add unsnooze/wake action #8744
• Show "Snoozed" Mailbox as primary mailbox #8746
• Interoperability
  • Look into options to make the Snooze/Later mailbox discoverable for us and other clients with a dedicated IMAP attribute similar to \sent, \draft, etc.
  • Look into options to push the snooze time to IMAP for other clients to read

[ChristophWurst]

This requires us to store more of the IMAP state locally.

[szaimen]

Maybe you could do it the way Microsoft is doing it in Outlook on Android:
If you use the snooze button the first time, you get a popup in which you get asked for defining an imap-folder for snoozed mails. So if your are snoozing mails, they get moved into this folder. And if I understood it correctly, the information until when it reappers inside your inbox is stored locally on your imap client, which is perfect for this usecase, because nextcloud mail is running on a server. The only downside is, that you cannot see this snoozing (or the day when it reappers inside your inbox) inside other imap-clients.

[jakobroehrl]

Here is how Kapano solves it.
You can add reminders to mails. This could be shown in the calendar and generate notifications:

[Friptick]

Been looking for this since forever. Follow-up, reminder, snooze, whatever it takes. Just make the message go away for x days. As OP says, many (probably most) people treat their inbox as a kind of to-do list. Incidentally, the snooze feature is a crucial part of the Inbox Zero and Getting Things Done methodologies, not to mention just being common sense.

Sorry to pile on without more specific information, but I was ready to post a new issue with what @jakobroehrl said, to the word. Which suggests that there might be latent demand for this feature.

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[ChristophWurst]

This requires us to store more of the IMAP state locally.

We have this since #2064