On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 17:04, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> I wonder if the url shouldn't be more like:
> 
> nntp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/#comp.lang.c

For users it could be more like: "comp.lang.c in news.host.com", the uri
looks scary. The "plain english" one is longer, yeah, but most of the
time you dont want to crosspost anyway.. :)

Tuomas


> 
> I have been thinking of suggesting to NotZed that we use fragments for
> folder names for *all* providers so that they are consistent. Currently
> all the local store's use that method while IMAP uses the path
> component. I think it'd be simpler if we just always used the fragment.
> 
> (Don't need to change anything unless NotZed agrees, I'm mostly just
> using this as an excuse to bring this idea up)
> 
> Jeff
> 
> On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 08:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Quoting Tuomas Kuosmanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > > As the screenshot shows, apparently when you have two equal e-mail 
> > > > addresses, the "From" chooser automagically appends the account name, so 
> > > > that's no problem.
> > > 
> > > What happens if you choose a wrong one? Does it only show the folders
> > > belonging to that From: account? Ie, send from the imap account with
> > > same email address, but try sending to a newsgroup?
> > 
> > No, you can post to folders on other stores as well, only absolute URLs will be 
> > shown. So if you have an e-mail account selected, and you select a NNTP folder 
> > with the selector, the entry will show 'nntp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/alt.testing.it" 
> > rather than just "alt.testing.it". Of course, if you manually enter 
> > "alt.testing.it", it would try to append the message to a local e-mail folder with 
> > that name.
> > 
> > If you use the "Post new message" menu items or reply button or anything, the NNTP 
> > account will automagically be chosen as the "From" account, so that should work 
> > rather intuitively.
> > 
> > If you switch accounts, and you haven't done any manual editing of the selection, 
> > the composer will make sure that relative urls will be made absolute, and absolute 
> > urls relative if possible.
> > 
> > > > You can do that. In fact, you can show the "To" and "BCC" fields as 
> > > > well. The newsgroup append method will make sure they don't show up in 
> > > > the news message headers.
> > > 
> > > OK. Which account does that use then? Different ones for email and nntp?
> > 
> > Hmmm... good point... it just uses the account you have currently selected, but 
> > that shouldn't be a problem, should it? Because the newsgroup store is an e-mail 
> > provider, you can set preferences for sending mail for it as well, so the mail 
> > /will/ be delivered if you send it from your NNTP account... I wouldn't know an 
> > other way to do this...
> > 
> > 
> > Meilof
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