Re: implementing multiple smtp servers...

[christophe barbé <christophe barbe lineo fr>]

I've missed this mail. Perhap's it was a private one.

Le mar, 14 aoû 2001 11:36:26, Pawel Salek a écrit :
> On 2001-07-20 06:54 Riccardo Persichetti wrote:
> > -i don't know if we should remove the default smtp entries
> >  found under Settings->Preferences->Mail_Servers->Outgoing_mail
> >  and, at start up, load the ones stored on the current identity,
> >  or the Default one.
> 
> I do not know, neither. Some user reports would be useful here. Note
> that the need for multiple SMTP servers is smaller if you can
> authenticate to your server.

I believe that the correct way to do it is to save the smtp set in the
preferences dialogbox in the identity structure (default identity) and only
here.

In my idea all fields in Identity/default should be available in the
preferences dialog box. This way if a user don't want to manage more than
one identity, he can ignore the identity dialog box without missing
interresting features. We can then easily add an option in the preferences
dialogbox to enable Identity and hide the menu entry and toolbar icons when
it's disabled.

> > -or, maybe it's better if we leave the entries in the preferences,
> >  so that if we have an identity with empty smtp entries, we use
> >  the one found under preferences...
> >
> > Please could someone help me?
> > Attached to this message there is a small patch,
> > basically it just adds smtp fields to identities...
> 
> I have rewritten this patch to make it compile with current CVS
> (attached). The identity dialog becomes to big and needs rearrangement
> (use GtkNotebook?).

Yes a rework would be great.
Fields like "Reply string:" could be placed in the last tabs.
In the same time this make me think about the interface hall of shame (when
you select ID in the left list and tab on the top). I believe this site (
http://www.iarchitect.com/mshame.htm ) need to be in mind. 

> BTW, I am going to create a branch in CVS for patches that seem useful
> but not urgent enough to make it into balsa-1.2.0. I am very grateful
> that at least some patches were checked by other people (thanks,
> christophe): I am not able to have a look at all of them and I
> appreciate any help I can get.

What about a directory in the main CVS branch to hold pending patch as
file.
It would be a usefull patch repository without creating a new CVS branch.
I've a slow internet connexion and would be happy to avoid syncing two cvs
branches.

Christophe 

> 
> /Pawel
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