Re: Mail checker

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

On Sun, 2002-05-05 at 02:47, Peter Hägg wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  I've been playing around with the latest Garnome and I have to say that 
> I really like it. Gnome2 has gone forward a big notch since beta3. 
> Excellent work guys!I don't know if this is the right place to post 
> this, but point me to the correct mailing list if not.
> 
> I'm a big fan of the mail checker applet but honestly, I really don't 
> like the behaviour it has right now. If my mailbox (a pop3 mbox provided 
> by my ISP) is offline while the mail check is done, the applet lets me 
> know that it will disable the checks for now! This is not very 
> appropriate IMHO. Now I have to check the 'check mail every...' manually 
> every time I "guess" that the mbox is online.
> 
> My mbox is quite often offline from a minute to ten minutes so this 
> happens a lot. I think the applet should only show a dialog that the 
> mbox is offline, if even that. Mozilla Mail does the same nagging and I 
> hate having those dialog boxes popping up.
> 

Could you file a bug in bugzilla.gnome.org so this doesn't get lost?
Thanks,
John
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