Re: [RFC] send mails and identity

[Gordon Oliver <gordo pincoya com>]

On 2001.08.14 08:02 christophe barbé wrote:
> 
> Le mar, 14 aoû 2001 14:19:56, M . Thielker a écrit :
> > How does that cause duplicates?
> 
> Because when you get a "waiting moderator approval", the mail is
> certainly
> approved by the moderator but because you have already resent it, it
> finishes in double in the ml. 

err, that sounds like pilot error...


> I agree that we need to add an option to basically inform user when no
> magic ID was choosen. It can be more elaborate too.

What happened to the idea (that I saw here) to put the ID's as a combo
box on 'From:'. This has two advantages, first that the selected ID is
obvious from looking, and second, that it is easier to change (the current
"select identity"->(click on new identity)->OK is painful).

(Messy Idea) We could also put a combo box in, along with two small
checkboxes
(or another combo box - yuck) that allow the user to set this as the
default for the folder or the user. It sounds a bit ugly, but it would
allow the user control in a relatively non-intrusive manner.

If we try to automatically do this it would involve making a choice between
folder mappings and user mappings (perhaps as a preference)

Note that as a first guess, I'd say that if one of the ID's is in the
set of (To:, CC:) that should always be taken as the ID (that would
cover all but mailing lists and blind copies)

> > The sequence would be thus:
> > Click "Send"
> > Confirm Identity dialog pops up
> > Click "Remember..."
> > Add Rule dialog pops up, filled in with defaults.
> > Edit, then click OK
> 
> This remember me somethings (in Evolution). This could be done.

garg... this sounds _very_ painful.
I hate mouse clicking when I don't have to... I also hate
intrusive UI's... I'd rather see a combo type box showing the
current ID so that the user can easily choose.

just my $0.02
	-gordo