*Poll Results*: Native Email Improvements For Jolla To Consider

asked 2014-11-06 14:36:53 +0200

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updated 2015-03-06 09:35:49 +0200

eric
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@andreibechet and I have gathered the results of the first "improvements" poll, namely additional features people are looking for in the email native client:

http://www.jollatides.com/2014/10/21/community-poll-vote-for-your-top-5-desired-native-email-app-features/

Here are the static results in full for Jolla to consider and see which features to prioritise on:

Native Email App: Top Feature Requests

Answer                                                                      Votes   Perc     

Search function                                                              239    15%
Ability to add email sender to contacts                                      179    11%
Mark/delete mails in bulk (or option for all) from one account               156    9%
Threaded view                                                                131    8%
PGP/GPG and S/MIME Support                                                   121    7%
Unable to Swype-out(go back) without zooming out                              99    6%
Copy/paste content on html formatted email doesn't work or very tricky        92    6%
Move from one email to next/previous without having to go back to list        86    5%
Signature at the end of current message, not in previous replied messages     76    5%
See full headers                                                              70    4%
Option for read/write mails in text(only) mode                                59    4%
Better html formatted email handling                                          56    3%
Text formatting when sending email (e.g. bold, italics)                       53    3%
Update speedup (sometimes it takes ages to update subfolder)                  46    3%
Select subfolders which should update automatically                           43    3%
Sending HTML formatted emails (configurable)                                  34    2%
Possibility to search-on-type from Exchange GAL (Global Address List)         31    2%
Checking selected subfolders for incoming mail (only possible with Inbox atm) 30    2%
Disable top posting while answering mails                                     20    1%
Fetch mails from account with more than one mail address                      19    1%
Check local maildir/mbox                                                       4    0%

The sample size to date is 1,644 votes which I believe is a decent sample size for Jolla to seriously consider, so I hope this helps Jolla prioritise which needed email features are most important to the community.

Sail On, Timo (and Andrei)