Re: [Evolution] improvement surgestion for evo on send/receiving

[Dan Hensley <dan hensley home com>]

On Thu, 2001-08-23 at 20:51, Steve Fox wrote:
> On 23 Aug 2001 19:02:24 -0600, Dan Hensley wrote:
> > On Thu, 2001-08-23 at 18:56, mark wrote:
> > > 1. send/receive all
> > > 2. to be able to send/receive for specific accounts only, so say i have
> > > account 1 and account 2,but only wish to receive for account 2 only i
> > > can just click on receive <account 2> and only get mail for that account
> >
> > You can do this, although it's maybe not as straight forward as you'd
> > like.  Check out the Disable button on the Mail Settings form.  Although
> > I have to confess that I don't like the current behavior or removing
> > IMAP accounts from the Folders view when they're disabled.
>
> This is also my number one issue with Evolution right now. I *really*
> hope that this won't be the final solution (disable/enabling accounts)
> as it is so very kludgy and it's a lot of extra clicking around.

The bugs I've submitted related to this are 923, 7119, and 6180.  Bug
5659 is also related.  You might want to add comments to the appropriate
bugs.

Dan

> I use Evolution both at work and at home, so having to disable/enable
> accounts twice in one day is highly annoying.
>
> Please someone tell me that selective message retrieving is at least
> planned? I wish I was better at C so that I could add it myself, but
> alas. I asked Federico at OLS but he didn't found like it was planned :(

I've added comments about