Am 2004.07.25 01:39 schrieb(en) Carlos Morgado:
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 20:23:00, Joacher wrote:Peter Bloomfield wrote:It (outbox) can be serverside--there's no technical obstacle. We'd just need some way to make sure that even a novice user understands the risk.How about a a regular imap "outbox" in case the SMTP is down, and a local "fallback-box" in case SMTP _and_ IMAP is down.No, that's too much trouble. Outbox is an empty file 99.9% of the time, it's not a real mailbox. It makes no sense at all to put on IMAP "just because".(history of outbox: pre-2.1 we needed a copy of the message on disk to send. we place the message on a mbox type file and deleted after the send was confirm so the user could always find the message if there was some problem.) on 2.1 we don't even need an outbox any more but it's still nice to have for the same reason.If outbox bothers you so much place it on ~/.balsa or /tmp, we don't care :) We *could* make outbox disapear from the mblist, that's not hard but i'm not exactly sure that makes sense. Opinions ?And if you're not convinced yet, try not confused outbox and sentbox ;)
Perhaps the System of Outlook Express is a little bit simpler:It places every sent msg in the Sentbox and marks unsend ones - Balsa could cobine a "Resend - Button" in the context menu of msgs in the Sentbox and the need for an Outbox would be out of the world ;)
The only Problem then would be "network in trouble" in connection with an imap-Sentbox - but there could be a fallback ~/.balsa/mbox where all Mails are (invisible to the user) cached when offline and submitted when the connection is back...
I think this would be the most obvious and transparent solution for a new user -> To search for (in the mua) sent messages in the "Sentbox" and not 2 different ones! (Joe average doesn't care wether the mail is sent transmitted already or not - he just trusts his mua to do it right ;)
but all this are just my 2¢ ;) cu /Steffen -- /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign | "The best way to predict X * NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | the future is to invent it." / \ * NO MSWord docs in e-mail| -- Alan Kay
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