Re: [evolution-patches] fix for bug #43241

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 19:34, Dan Winship wrote:
> The "this removes functionality which people are currently using"
> objection that Anna raised in the bug report was never addressed.

Well, if this is really being used, these folks are living on the
*dangerous* side of life.

Wanna raise this issue again, as I just thought about the described
issue below:
 http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=43241


Think about the following scenario:

I am a user and one of my accounts is an IMAP server. As I want all my
mails to be accessible, I even store SENT mails on the IMAP server. This
account is currently *disabled*, so there is no connection to the IMAP
server. However, as Evolution does offer me this *disabled* account, I
write a mail choosing this account.

Where does the SENT mail go?

Yep, to the local folders -- me knows and so do you. But the user does
*not* know and probably will never find the SENT mail again, when he has
to.

At the very least: The mail is not stored as intended on the IMAP
server. If the user knows about this issue, he will remember this
particular mail being saved on a local account on a machine, he has
right now (as he needs the mail) no access to.

The user will blame Evolution for this behavior and call it a bug. And
he is right, IMHO.

...guenther


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