Hi Brian, see in-line...
On Feb 21, 2007, at 1:31 PM, Brian Kirsch wrote:
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.
Okay, so we can rephrase the spec to say that we use the first
'completed' SMTP account in the Accounts dialog.
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.
See the example below...
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.
Right, so when we can't reply with the email address that the
original email was addressed TO...then we use the 'default' email
address (aka 1st completed SMTP account)...otherwise, we tell the
user to configure their accounts.
Mimi
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