Ben Bucksch wrote:

> http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/specs/offline/Offline.html 

I sent too early, sorry.

> Note that when a folder has children, that folder can also contain 
> messages.

That's wrong for UW-IMAP. You shouldn't be able to select 'folder-only 
folders'.

> Checking a parent folder does not automatically select the children of 
> the folder for synchronization.
> 
> An account can be selected. If an account is selected, all its 
> children are also selected. A disabled checkbox appears for each of 
> the children if the account is selected.
> 
That's inconsistent from a UI perspective. (It does make some sense 
technically.)

> A progress window, modal to Mail, 

Download should not be modal, but asyncronous.

One paragraph later, it says:

> While synchronizing, users are presented with a modeless ?) dialog 
> which shows synchronization status information and progress

Is the first one superceded? Later, it says (under "Closed Issues"!?!)

>    1. Synch is modal.  A dialog is shown to users during synch.
>       
again.

>    1. Detection of online/offline state
>       
How do you want to do that? Don't just try - this will cause a 
connection to be established, if the user uses autodial.

> We may be able to allow users to create new folders while online though.

I assume you mean "offline".

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