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

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2 infradead org>]

On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 03:16 +0200, guenther wrote:
> Have you read all of the posts to the bug? There are a whole lot more
> issues, than this one.
>  http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=43241

There are, but they're UI issues -- they're cosmetic. I'm not really
qualified to comment on them, and to be honest I don't have much of an
opinion. The issue on which I commented, as a user, was the one of
functionality.

> So your Laptop is broken and you refuse to use it -- just because it is
> at home, not connected, and you are at the office using another machine
> to access your IMAP servers mail?

The laptop is the exception to my only half-made-in-jest rule. And it's
generally with me, and has Ethernet, wavelan and Bluetooth networking --
when I'm on the road it has GPRS. It isn't entirely cut off from the
world ;)

> This is one of my points: You do know. Well, then have a look at the
> users mailing lists. There are a couple of folks, asking about some
> really basic things. And now think about all those folks, not even smart
> enough to use mailing lists...
> 
> Evolution wanna enable all those folks, to use and manage their mails.
> Hackers are not the only users of Evolution...

Do not screw me over for the sake of the lowest common denominator. :)
Make it easy for the droolers, by all means -- make it obvious what's
happening and why -- but don't actually break stuff for people who know
what they're doing.

On this occasion, I suppose I don't really want the account 'disabled'
-- it's just that I couldn't find the checkbox marked... 

	"Make Evolution refuse to show any mail from your other _local_
	 IMAP account until it's finished issuing STATUS for _every_
	 folder in this remote and slow account."

... in order to turn that function off. :)

Perhaps we should disable sending/reading/polling separately?

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dwmw2