Re: DialUp Pref [was: Re: HTML support (was Re: Simplification of preferences)]

[Steffen Klemer <masterofheap gmx net>]

Am 2002.11.18 09:32 schrieb(en) Toralf Lund:
>> 
>> Am 2002.11.14 23:21 schrieb(en) Toralf:
> The idea is that some functionality that is usually convenient, might 
> cause trouble on a dial-up connection because the computer may no 
> actually be connected to the net, or because the connection is *slow* 
> when it is. The only argument for not having certain features "always 
> on", appears to be that they could cause trouble on a dialup-connection. 
> So why not collect all of these in a single setting rather than having 
> several confusing prefs?
> 
> I haven't *really* thought a lot about this, though, and I'm not sure 
> that "dial up" is a good name for the setting.
> 

You think about some special prefs, aren't you?
But which setting would need this except the polling of the servers and 
the queuing of sent mails.
I don't think anybody access ldap servers through the internet, or?

An online and offline mode would perhaps reflect such a thing much better, 
but that is only a naming thing...

Another note on this: in a recent article about Balsa in a German Computer 
mag ("c't") they complain about not supporting "smtp after pop" - perhaps 
we can simply change the general behaviour (or create again a new pref ;-)


cu
/Steffen

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