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

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 16:38, Oliver Sturm wrote:
> 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?

because users don't know better. If you left it up to the user to start
his signature file with "-- ", it would never happen and would piss a
lot of people off. The standard rule of programming is "don't let your
users do the Wrong Thing (tm)"

that's exactly what we've done. I think you'll find most other
standards-aware mailers will do the same thing.

> > >         * 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.

*shrug* there is already a feature request for something like this then
in bugzilla.

> > >         * 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.

you can drag the preview pane separator to the bottom of the screen. You
can't expect much better than that for mouse control.

Jeff

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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
fejj ximian com  - www.ximian.com