Dear Scott,
Where can you see this preferences?
Or is it something you guys are making, because i am using 4 accounts
and would like to check all the account at one click!
Thanks,
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Tariq
Scott Putterman wrote:
> The pref would be to set the default value of the Get Msg button with
> menu items to do the other option. The two options I see are:
>
> 1. Get Msgs for selected account
> 2. Get Msgs for all logged into accounts including selected account
> (even if you aren't logged into that account in which case you'd get
> prompted for your password).
>
> I think it's important to have both of these options. Though I have
> to admit that I do like your 3rd suggestion of getting messages for a
> random account.
>
>
> Scott
> Matthew Thomas wrote:
>
>> bhuvan wrote:
>>
>>> ...
>>> I am working on a feature where we would like to have 'Get Msg' button
>>> turned on in all cases or in most of
>>> the cases. There are couple of issues involved here..
>>> ...
>>> We need a pref in mailnews prefs panel so that user can enable or
>>> disable this feature.
>>> A pref that says "Get Messages for all (authenticated)
>>> accounts".
>>
>>
>>
>> Why? What would the alternative be? `Get messages for a random selection
>> of accounts'?
>>
>>> 2. 'Get Msg' button visibility
>>> a. When do we want to show this button and when to hide.
>>
>>
>>
>> The button should always be visible, just not necessarily enabled.
>>
>>> I think we should display it in all cases except when we select a
>>> news server (note: not newsgroup).
>>
>>
>>
>> It should be enabled when a news server is selected. In that case, it
>> would update the message counts for every group on that server, just as
>> expanding the server's twisty does.
>>
>>> 3. 'Get Msg' button functionality
>>> a. Get messages for all accounts vs all authenticated accounts.
>>>
>>> Authenticated accounts are the ones for which password is
>>> remembered for.
>>
>>
>>
>> That's a poor choice of terminology. The intuitive meaning of
>> `authenticated accounts' is those which require a password -- that is,
>> all of them.
>>
>>> It will be appropriate to get messages only for authenticated
>>> accounts.
>>
>>
>>
>> Why? The fact that I don't trust the rest of my family not to check my
>> e-mail (and therefore don't ask for Mozilla to remember the password),
>> shouldn't mean that I have to go around checking all my mail accounts
>> individually. A single click of the `Get Messages' button should check
>> all my accounts. (In the unlikely event that I just want to check an
>> individual account, I should be able to do that from a `Get Messages'
>> submenu in the `File' menu.)
>>
>>> ...
>>
>>
>>
>> Until I understand what the pref is for, I can't comment on the rest of
>> your questions.
>>
>
