[Evolution-hackers] Re: Setting to enable user not to copy sent-items

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

I understand what the setting is, and what it does.  But I don't follow why it is needed.

It just seems to be clutter, where the setting is already customisable enough.  Is there any reason to disable the setting altogether?

Wouldn't a more useful feature be to be able to automatically delete/expunge older mails in the sent folder?


On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 01:12 -0400, Pasupathilingam Sankarasivasubramanian wrote:
>     The setting is per-account and also the user may wish to disable copying sent items any time after setting up the account. The only place where we can allow the user to choose is on the Account-editor dialog and it can be stored in the EAccount structure. 
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>     If the sent-frame-enabled-on-clicking-checkbox  setup makes things confusing for the user, we may add an option, "Do not  copy Sent-Items" on the popup that appears on clicking the Folders button, where we choose the folder. 
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>     For a GroupWise account, we can do it programmaticaly, since the user is not shown the Folders frame of the defaults page in the Account-editor. But for other accounts, currently there is no way by which user can prevent Evolution from copying sent mails to any folder. 
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>     Thanks & Regards, 
>     Sankar P
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>     >>>Not Zed <notzed novell com> 04/21/05 10:32 am >>>
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>     I don't understand why this is needed.  The setting is per-account, the account setup can configure this for the user.  It definitely makes the 'sent' folder behaviour much more confusing and more difficult to set up.
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>     Is there a good reason for adding this option?
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>     On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 04:25 -0400, Pasupathilingam Sankarasivasubramanian wrote: 
> >         Hello All,  
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> >         Certain types of mail servers, on sending a mail, automatically copies the mails into some folder (Like Sent Items in GroupWise). When Evolution is used to connect to such type of server, the user may not require Evolution to copy sent items into any folder. So a new setting can be included in Evolution, a GtkCheckButton, which on checking enables the folder-selection-frame for Sent Items, in the account editor dialog, as shown in the attached figure. This necessitates a new boolean member, copy_sent_items_locally in the EAccount structure. This variable should reflect the new  GtkCheckButton that is created.  
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> >         The mail_send_message function in mail-ops.c file can be modified to include a check if the copy_sent_items_locally boolean variable is true or not so as to decide on copying sent items.  
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> >         For GroupWise accounts, the folder-selection frame (Drafts,Sent Items) will be hidden since the user shouldnt be allowed to set some other folder for Sent Items.. Programmatically, we can set the new boolean property to be false.  
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> >         Thanks & Regards,  
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> >         Sankar P  
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