On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 09:06:25 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote: > DISCUSSION AND WISHLIST RE SEND MAIL AND GET MAIL.
> I have set up my own personal control page to include the buttons Send > Mail and Get Mail. > I click on one of these buttons and the respective operation SMPT: or > POP3: takes place. Meanwhile I am looking at my own page as the mail is > up or downloaded. But as soon as the Send or Get is finished, I am > transferred to either the (now empty) Outbox or to the Inbox. > And that prompts a question: What earthly use is it to be presented with > the empty Outbox once the SMPT: function has finished uploading the > mail, other than to show you that all the mail has been uploaded? And > surely if the upload was aborted for any reason there would be an error > message to that effect. Outgoing messages may remain in the outbox and fail to get sent for reasons other than an SMTP upload abort. For example, due to a typo or some other oversight you might sometimes prepare an outgoing message that fails to comply with the RFC's. In this case the message will remain in your outbox and fail to get sent, and you won't even get any error messages during the SMTP session. Things like that can happen also as a result of an occasional glitch in the matrix, even when the SMTP session is not aborted, and even when your outgoing message is RFC compliant. > But here is where I have problems: After an up or download of mail, the > temptation is to press Esc (equivalent to the Back button) to get back > to my personal page, but of course this takes me to the SMPT: or the > POP3: function, which tries to send or get mail again, even though there > isn't any left to send or get. > My first preference would be that once SMPT: or POP3: function is > finished, the user should be left on the screen that the function was > called from. My preferences are differnt. After doing SMTP I would always want to be left looking at my outbox, regardless of whatever screen I should call the SMTP function from. > My second preference is that the SMPT: or POP3: should NOT be able to be > recalled by the Back button. If this means they shouldn't appear in the > HISTORY.LST then that's fine by me. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser: http://browser.arachne.cz/
