Re: Balsa 2.2.0 end user impressions

[Darko Obradovic <dobradovic gmx de>]

hide the local outbox as long as it's empty


Am 25.07.2004 14:34 schrieb(en) Carlos Morgado:
> 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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