On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 11:00, Gene Imes wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 06:04, Not Zed wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 00:55, Gene Imes wrote:
> > > I have been using pine for a while and decided to switch to Evolution. I
> > > like Evolution but it has some problems. So, what follows is a list of
> > > what I think needs to be added or changed:
> > > 
> > > 1. I have added several users to manage different mailing lists. So if I
> > > have one of these accounts selected and click new message then the
> > > 'From:' should be the address of the current folder selected.
> > 
> > this has been requested before.
> 
> And should be a thousand times until someone understands that some of us
> want flexibility(configurability).
> 
> > 
> > > 2. If I have an account selected in the 'Folder' bar an address book
> > > relating specifically to that account should be available.
> > 
> > hmm, but no such relationship exists.
> 
> What does this mean? You can have an addressbook for each account. The
> addresses I have are not common to each account (configurability?).

it means that there is no way to associate an account with an
addressbook or vise versa.

> 
> > 
> > > 3. If I click 'Reply', 'Reply to All', or 'Forward' then what should be
> > > forwarded is what is displayed. i.e. If I have selected View->Message
> > > Display->Show Email Source and the full email source is displayed then
> > > that is what should be should be 'Replied' or 'Forwarded'.
> > 
> > forward should use an attachment.  this hasbee4n debated to death.
> > 
> > replying, generally people do not want the headers, only the meaningful
> > content (e.g. why would you reply to a mime message and include all
> > encoded images and multiple parts, quoted, in an unusable form?  that
> > would be nuts).  thats w3hat forward is for, to retain the full
> > structure and content of the original.
> 
> This may work for you but not for me. Why do you care what my motives
> for wanting something. I don't want to forward email as an attachment I
> want it inline and If the email source is displayed and I want to
> forward it then why shouldn't I be able to do this? Example: I get some
> spam and know who the originating ISP is so I want to send forward an
> email to them requesting they remedy the situation and the proof is the
> email source.

Forward as Attachment is the preferred method, trust me. Then the ISP
gets the raw message in a nice friendly MIME structure which will
preserve wrapping (which will not happen if you forward it inline).

Jeff

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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
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