Re: Balsa 2.2.0 end user impressions

[Carlos Morgado <chbm gnome org>]

On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 10:07:54, Steffen Klemer wrote:
> Am 2004.07.25 01:39 schrieb(en) Carlos Morgado:


> >
> > And if you're not convinced yet, try not confused outbox and sentbox ;)
>
> Perhaps the System of Outlook Express is a little bit simpler:
>
> It places every sent msg in the Sentbox and marks unsend ones - Balsa
> could cobine a "Resend - Button" in the context menu of msgs in the
> Sentbox and the need for an Outbox would be out of the world ;)

This sounds much worse.
a) when you press send&receive sentbox needs to be scanned for unsent  
messages.
b) it's not easy to notice a problem. if your outbox message count in balsa  
isn't 0 it's clear there is a problem.
c) it lies. messages stuck in the outbox aren't *sent*, they are waiting to  
be sent.

> The only Problem then would be "network in trouble" in connection with an
> imap-Sentbox - but there could be a fallback ~/.balsa/mbox where all Mails
> are (invisible to the user) cached when offline and submitted when the
> connection is back...

as oposed to a local outbox where unset mails are cached ? :)
as I said, that mailbox *may* not show in the mblist. i think it's better if  
it shows but i don't feel particularly strongly about it.

(if you're thinking about offline mode and synchronizing, working patches are  
welcome ;))

> I think this would be the most obvious and transparent solution for a new
> user -> To search for (in the mua) sent messages in the "Sentbox" and not
> 2 different ones! (Joe average doesn't care wether the mail is sent
> transmitted already or not - he just trusts his mua to do it right ;)

This is just Wrong. Is that why outlook users call you up asking when you  
didn't reply to messages they haven't sent yet ?

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