On Feb 20, 2007, at 3:54 PM, Mimi Yin wrote:
Forwarding this to the design list...
Yea, there was a lot of hand-waving in the area of how to deal with
'default' outgoing mail accounts.
A simple solution for Preview might be: Just use the first SMTP
account in the Accounts dialog.
We already do that. The first account is the default Outgoing
Account. Aparna's issue is that she decided to add another account
instead of filling in the existing one. Others will certainly do the
same as well.
Options are use the first SMTP account that is filled in if the
default is not filled in or do not ship default accounts and let the
user manually create them or add back the ability to select a default.
bkirsch, would this be hard? Whenever possible, reply to and
forward messages with the email address the original message was
sent to.
I am not following what you are asking here. We do the standard
actions on reply and forward that all other email clients do.
However, Chandler has weird scenarios like: User replies to a
message in a shared collection that wasn't even sent to them...that
make trying to guess the 'right' default difficult.
We can never guess the right default. Because we don't know what the
user wants at any particular moment.
All we can do is either use the default or find the first filled out
account. Anything other than that is beyond the scope of Preview.
-Brian
bkirsch, any thoughts?
Mimi
On Feb 20, 2007, at 5:16 PM, Brian Kirsch wrote:
The issue of what is the default is still in need of some refinement.
The basic idea was to get rid of the additional fields need to
select a default.
In your case the default account was "Outgoing Mail" which is the
pre-installed account.
The only way to override the default is via restore settings.
There is no way from the UI to say use account X rather than
account Y as the default for sending mail.
I can certainly add code to check if the default account does not
have account info to
use the first smtp account that does.
Mimi what are your thoughts on the default?
Brian
On Feb 20, 2007, at 1:35 PM, Aparna Kadakia wrote:
I notice that we have made some changes to the Accounts dialog in
this release.
We used to let the user choose what smtp account(outgoing mail)
they would like to pick for the imap (incoming mail) account.
I have run into an issue and would like to know if this is a bug
or by design.
I have setup imap and an smtp accounts in my Chandler.They are
named "demo4 imap" and "demo4 smtp"
I also have "Outgoing mail" which is not set to anything.
When I compose an email and try sending it I get an error:
"Account set up
The following account(s) need to be set up:
- SMTP (outgoing email)
Would you like to enter account information now?"
Why doesn't it pick the "demo4 smtp" account I have already set.
I don't see a place where I can set this to be the default SMTP
account.
Let me know,
Aparna
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