App Feedback and Ideas

[Node815]

First of all, thank you for making a nice utility for archiving our emails! This is very much needed in the self hosting community.

I have some usability suggestions if I may.

User Interface

• I pay for my email hosting and as such have several e-mails which use the same server. I think adding a 'remember this server' box would be nice so we don't have to type it in (paste in my case) into the field every time.
• When handling more than one email box, instead of lumping them into one giant list, group them by accounts.
• While this may defeat the purpose of email archiving, the ability to selectively remove certain e-mails from the interface would be a plus.
• Add an "About" section in the app so users can find this on Github (see below for why)
• Add a server interval check or schedule to change the server polling time This is useful for if you want to manage your emails first and then set up a once a week archival of emails. One can work around this by turning off the server until ready, but then if one needs to find an email, you have to fire it up, so it's catch-22.

App Name/SEO Exposure This is more or less a stumbling block I encountered, I discovered this through a blog (https://selfh.st/). When I came back to the app, I couldn't remember where this was in Github. So, a basic search online in a search engine, yielded many and I mean many results for "Briefbox" but nothing related to this.

General Several projects here in GitHub utilize discussion groups within Github, this allows on topic discussion of the app while keeping the bugs and app issues contained within the "Issues" links.

Again, thank you for making this! This will fill the gap for the self-hosting community where the desire is to archive email.

[bandundu]

Hi @Node815 thank you for this really valuable feedback! As this is my first bigger public project, there is a steep learning curve. I will take in your feedback back in and look to implement it in the future.

If you are interested, I would really appreciate having contributors that are willing to help and bring in their own ideas, suggestion etc.

There are a ton of things where support would be greatly appreciated.

Kind Regards Charles