On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 14:13, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 23:04, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > > > Mail > > > - When i am not connected to Internet (but I am not on of line mode) i > > > have a message box saying that Evolution could not retrieve mail with > > > only one button "Close". May be we could have a second button "Work of > > > line" in this message box to switch into the Of-Line mode. > > > > too complicated to do. it's a generic exception reporting system, it has > > no idea why it failed it just know it failed and so throws up a dialog. > > > > The back-end is what sets the exceptions, but it doesn't know anything > > about "going offline" and wouldn't have any way of adding this button > > anyway. > > "No network connection" seems pretty common exception to me, I'd think > it would be worth having special behaviour.
There is no exception for "No network connection" and it would be an impossible exception to check for anyway, at least on Unix. Just because you can't reach one server doesn't mean you lost your network connection. It simply means that you can't reach the other host. If you are going to be offline, then go into Offline mode. > > > > - Strange but i can have only 70-80 characters per line in text mode > > > even if the window if larger. Work fine in HTML mode. Is it the normal > > > behavior? > > > > yes, this is intended behaviour. the many mail related specifications > > strongly urge that clients wrap at 72 characters to support older mail > > clients that apparently use an ~80 byte buffer to read lines and also > > for console clients that use an 80-character-wide screen. > > Couldn't this be made optional? This isn't really issue with normal > emails, but sometimes I want to copy&paste longer lines (eg. a couple of > lines from log files) where wrapping just makes it more difficult for > receiver to read it. Making it an attachment would work of course, but > if I wanted to put comments between the lines, the whole mail would > basically be in the attachment which would be stupid. Use Preformat, it won't wrap long lines. > > Format menu could have Wrapless-toggle which would show and send the > lines without any wrapping at all, so it might show horizontal scrollbar > as well. It does, it's called Preformat. Jeff -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
