[Evolution] new user impressions

[Brian Grossman <brian SoftHome net>]

I'm a user new to evolution.  Here's my observations of the Mailer after my
first use (v0.8).  My perspective is that of a long time exmh user.  I hope
these observations help make evolution even better.

1. Nice!

2. Maildir support for get mail is weird.  When I told it to use
        /home/brian/Maildir, it insisted on using /home/brian/Maildir/inbox.

3. Test Settings on Maildir didn't catch that I didn't have it set up
        as in #2.

4. Failed Test Settings for nntp took forever to timeout.

5. How do I change the default identity?

6. Gnome help browser doesn't know about mouse wheel.

7. How can I delete a (local) folder?

8. Where's my vi/emacs?  I'm a lot more productive in vi than in a gui editor.

9. Needs key shortcuts, like n for next message, c for compose,
        f for forward, d for delete, ctrl-return for commit.
        Pointing and clicking the mouse is not a comfortable activity.

10. Needs drag-drop moving of messages.  M would be a good shortcut key.

11. A right-click-menu in the message window would be a great place
        for "show source", "show full headers" and "show html images".

12. Needs more detail in error messages.  For example, when my SMTP
        server said
        "553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1)"
        evolution told me
        "RCPT TO response error: illegal seek: mail not sent"

        It should tell me what the server said, at least as an option.
        Even oe and eudora can do that.  Part of my job is to answer email
        support calls, and evolution's response would lead me to suspect
        a disk problem on the client or the server, while the 553 message
        would lead me right to the problem.

13. It doesn't save its window size on exit.

14. I'd like to set a smaller font for the message list.

15. What do all the icons to the left of messages mean?  Some are obvious,
        but for example, what does an envelope with an arrow on it mean?
        (tooltips would help)

16. Does it support gpg and/or pgp?

17. How can I specify a non-standard port for smtp and pop?

18. Does it support smtp/pop/imap over ssl?

19. Does it support smtp auth?

20. Why is there a "Don't delete messages from server" button in the SMTP
        configuration?

21. I'd like to have multiple transports and tie them to my multiple
        identities.

22. There's not an mh mail source type.  That forces me to manually convert
        to maildir format before importing all my old mail.

23. Thank you for supporting maildir and mh.  Mbox format is just too
        scary for contemplation.  The horror stories I could tell...

Brian