Dirk, > There's currently no built-in way to handle this in modest; the reason > for the minimalism is that features tend to confuse many users (e-mail > setup is hard!). But obviously, that's not always the right choice for > users who know what they are doing...
This may be a general comment, but since you're a Modest dev and it has the feel of "wontfix" about it, I'll make the case for the bug/rfe: 1) Clearly, it's possible to have too many options in an application. However, major/respected desktop mail clients (including Thunderbird, Eudora, and Outlook) have made the decision to support this feature in one way or another (either through explicit sender identity support or by issuing error messages during mail checking in a non-intrusive way). Furthermore, there's nothing unique about the mobile use-case that makes this an undesirable feature. 2) Modest already has methods to shield non-power-users from account setup complexity, namely the wizard process and the built-in presets for major mail providers. A feature like this could default to the common state (no additional sender identities, as is currently the case), and not appear in any of those luser-friendly setup-interfaces while still being available in the edit-account settings to provide the functionality for power users. 3) It would be possible to greatly improve the state of things without any additional options at all by issuing missing mailserver errors during the new message check as an info-alert (is that the right term for the little popup messages in the upper right-corner of the screen that don't require user interaction to clear?), rather than as two separate popup boxes requiring user interaction to clear (one error message + the account preferences box in order to "fix" the faulty account). It's worth noting that Modest already throws an error during account creation if the mailserver is bogus, so it's not necessary to issue such a loud error message during mail-check. Thanks, Mike Lococo _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
