Re: [Evolution-hackers] Offline stuff

[Ettore Perazzoli <ettore ximian com>]

On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 19:37, Hans Petter Jansson wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 15:10, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
> 
> > Also, we had talked about revamping the mailer's way of doing
> > offline...  Now I don't know how far are we with that, but I think it
> > should just do this:
> > 
> >       * Sync folders in the background while Evolution is online.
> > 
> >       * When going offline, if there are unsynced messages, the mailer
> >         should notify the user ("you have unsynced messages, go offline
> >         anyways?") and stop the download if the user confirms.  This way
> >         the user doesn't have to plan in advance to sync the messages
> >         before putting the computer offline.
> 
> It would be sweet if that dialog could somehow display sync progress and
> go offline if the sync was done before there was any interaction. That
> way, the user won't have to retry offline periodically until it's done
> syncing.

Yeah, however, that would have to be part of the mail component now, not
the shell...

-- Ettore