Re: [evolution-patches] (mail) displaying only those account which are enabled in "From" field of composer window

[Shreyas Sriniavasan <sshreyas novell com>]

On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 13:42 +0200, guenther wrote:
[snip]
> Did you just say you finally fixed this long outstanding UI issue?
>   http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=243241
> Now this is getting weird. Sorry, I did not test this patch yet, though
> I probably will give it a shot soon.
[snip]
> * If the user has *no* account enabled, he probably should not even be
>   able to compose a new message.
> * Alternatively, use the default account in From and do send the mail
>   using that account. (I'd prefer this, I think...)
> 
The messages with no from are not placed in the Outbox. They are placed
in the
drafts folder. I see no issue with this, there is no rule which states
that 
the user cannot write mails if he has no account configured. IMHO this
is 
acceptable. oh btw the send button should be disabled :-)

> I really don't think it is a good idea to have mails stuck in the
> Outbox. It's way too late for the user to realize he screwed up his
> settings at this point. He maybe won't even notice at all for a long
> time.
Mails with no from *should* not go to OUTBOX they should go to DRAFTS.
> If the user disabled all his accounts, he has to be aware of this
> *before* he even tries to write a mail, IMHO. Either this, or it
> magically just has to work using the default account

Well, i agree, infact this is one of the thing i suggested too and is 
probably do-able. If no account is enabled and the user writes a new
mail
and clicks send then we should just enable the default account and send
the 
mail. Ofcourse there could be problems of lock-ups here but if such is
not the
case that should be the way to go.

Cheers,
Shreyas