Re: Newbie questions/comments (Was: Re: [Evolution] Wish list/Todo ?)

[Oliver Sturm <o sturm manfred-dahlhoff de>]

Quoting Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>:

> >         * Insert my signature text without the leading '-- '. I'd like
> >           to have my name in the signature text so I don't have to type
> >           it all the time, but above the '-- '. I can easily insert it
> >           myself, but it duplicates the way it currently is.
>
> I don't understand. It is a standard practice to put "-- \n" and then
> start the signature - in fact many mail clients EXPECT this to be the
> delimeter or they will not "work" properly. So no, this will not change.

Ok, I hear you. Still, I only want to have more control over the exact way
my signature is formatted in the message, not leave out the sequence 
altogether. What's wrong with letting the user decide?

> >         * Configure the SMTP server port, especially for SSL. There
> >           seems to be no way to use anything but the standard ports. I
> >           have an SSL capable server on port 25 and this doesn't seem to
> >           be possible currently.
>
> You already can. There's no separate port GtkEntry because you are able
> to type it in with the hostname, just like you would in a browser.
>
> mail.myhost.com:995

Fine (although I'm still having problems with SSL, see my other message), but
this isn't visible in the dialog (yes, it's in the docs).

> >         * I'd like to use an external command to send mail, but it's not
> >           called sendmail. This cannot currently be configured, can it?
>
> exim/postfix/etc all have sendmail-like arguments so all you have to do
> is make a symlink called sendmail and have it point to your
> postfix/exim/qmail/whatever program.
>
> if this is not what you mean, then you can always write your own
> provider because if it isn't a sendmail clone, then we don't want to
> waste our time.

Sorry, but that's not the problem at all. I simply have more than one
such application on the system (a TMDA delivery agent, to be specific)
and I'd like to have the mailer use them interchangeably for different 
accounts.

> >         * The message preview pane can be hidden/shown with the key Q.
> >           Can I also do that with the mouse in some faster way than
> >           opening the menue/clicking the menu item? A hot button
> >           somewhere?
>
> no, and in fact this has been removed in the development branch, there
> are no longer any single-key accelerators because of the new feature in
> the message-list that uses them.

I don't care for the single-key accelerator, as long as there is an 
accelerator. But sometimes I sit and browse my mail by mouse instead of using 
the keyboard (scrolling up and down the list with the wheel, so the mouse
pointer is hovering over the message list) and it would be nice to have a simple
way of switching message preview on and off without using the other hand.

> >         * In my configuration, when checking someone's PGP signature, I
> >           always get a gpg message displayed:
>
> ?

Yes, sorry for that one. That's a configuration problem on my part.

Thanks for your comments!


Oliver Sturm <O Sturm Manfred-Dahlhoff de>

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