Feature request: download all e-mail at once

Feature Requests
#1

The only way to download e-mails to the device at present is to constantly scroll down to the bottom and then load a tiny batch. This is completely impractical for any regularly used account. I’d like to request the ability to download all e-mails at once regardless of how long it takes.

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[Release notes] Verla 4.2.0
#2

I have to ask a Jolla employee for a comment, please. This missing feature severely reduces the usefulness of the e-mail application. The overwhelming majority of users have had e-mails very long before a Sailfish device. This means a large stack of e-mails they can’t read on their device unless they put excruciatingly long hours of scrolling in. I mean, Thunderbird has had downloading of everything since its first versions.

#3

The following patch should add a second entry in the push up menu at the bottom of the email list to get not only 20 more emails, but all:

diff --git a/pages/MessageListView.qml b/pages/MessageListView.qml
index 9b1e5b5..ad81a78 100644
--- a/pages/MessageListView.qml
+++ b/pages/MessageListView.qml
@@ -286,6 +286,13 @@ SilicaListView {
                 emailAgent.getMoreMessages(folder.folderId, getMore)
             }
         }
+        MenuItem {
+            //% "Get all mails"
+            text: qsTrId("jolla-email-me-get_all_mails")
+            onClicked: {
+                emailAgent.retrieveMessageList(folder.parentAccountId, folder.folderId, 0)
+            }
+        }
     }
 
     MessageRemorsePopup {

I can try to make this patch enter officially the email app by kindly asking developpers, but with no guarantee…

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#4

@dcaliste outstanding! Sailors, please - you haven’t commented since May when I asked you to but now you actually have a fix as well. I have to ask you to take this request seriously now that it costs you almost nothing to add it.

#5

Sadly the email application is closed source and the git hosting of the source is private. I’m going to make a MR there which will trigger a discussion with the developpers. But this discussion will be private. :frowning:

They may have good reason for rejecting the MR (we will see), like it’s a bandwidth eater for average Joe, it creates issues with the messageModel… I don’t know. It’s not because the patch is simple that it will be accepted.

I’ll comment back when I have something.

#6

I admire your effort. They would perhaps ask for this to only work on wi-fi.