Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 30136
Mailing list vacation suspension
Last modified: 2021-05-27 19:28:18 UTC
I subscribe to many different OpenOffice mailing lists. Going on vacation means that mail piles up pretty high, especially with CVS subscriptions. It is possible to unsubscribe on departure and resubscribe on return, but that procedure is tedious and there is a simple alternative. I propose it as a feature. Provide a web-based interface to 'suspend' mailing list subscriptions. When checked, the user receives no e-mail from OOo mailing lists, but the subscriptions remain valid. When unchecked, the mail starts up again. Subscription status is unchanged in either case. This idea is just an extra filtering step on the mailing lists. The user will miss e-mail while the option is checked, but can always visit the archives. If you want to be really elaborate you could offer a way to request that OOo send all mail that has been missed. That would be a "catch up" option. I do not desire it, but such a thing is possible.
Hi Taking this and routing it to support as an enhancement. FWIW, we will be upgrading the mail system, albeit sometime in the misty future. louis
All of this is possible via most every MUA I can think of. Is that not sufficient?
> All of this is possible via most every MUA I assume you don't mean "mail client," because this is not an end user capability. The idea is that OpenOffice.org would not send the mail at all during vacation. That way the end user's mailbox does not overflow. The only way to do this feature is on the server side.
My point is that most mail clients, or MUAs, have filtering capabilities enabling mail to be routed to alternate mailboxes, rather than your inbox, while you are on vacation. Upon return, you could review that filtered mail or discard it at your own discretion. Does your email client not allow for filtering? Or are you primarily concerned about emails from Issue Tracker? If so, the option already exists for you to disable email notifications within the 'configuration options' section of Issue Tracker. Does that address your concerns?
You're missing the whole point here. While I'm on vacation, my computer is OFF. It doesn't matter what mail client I use. What matters is that, on the third-party mail server, which is beyond my control, mail from OOo piles up high and clogs the allowed mailbox capacity, preventing me from receiving more important mail. Spam also clogs the box. Eventually, personal mail I need to see gets bounced back with an error, "mailbox full." The idea here is to flag OOo that I don't want its server to send me anything until I return from a trip and flip the switch on the OOo server.
reassigning to support.
Sounds dandy, opened internal feature request.
The issue is accepted internally to be scoped for the future releases. This is part of the new CEE architecture being developed. Resolving this as FIXED- LATER for now.
This is being considered for the Snake release.
This enhancement could not make it to the Snake release and is being considered for a future release. Changing the Target Milestone to reflect the current status of this issue. Support will continue to track this issue internally and update you on its progress. Regards, Karishma Support Operations
Clearing the unused keywords from the Keywords field. Regards, Karishma Support Operations
CollabNet Support is currently reviewing the issues under Resolved-Later. If the issues are fixed currently in any of the present CEE releases, then it will be marked as Resolved-Fixed. There might be a few issues which might not be in our future roadmaps which might be closed as Wontfix unless it does not lie under any custom request.
This has been fixed in CEE 5.0 in Discussions