Matthew Thomas wrote:
> In the rare event that the user does choose the
> account level, show a simple summary of the folders/groups in that
> account, with the number of read and unread messages in each.
A majority of people (including myself) felt that the AccountCentral was
a better thing to show than to repeat the folder pane.
> To completely remove all possibility of the user
> understanding this behavior, have different defaults for this pref
> with different types of account.
The account types *are* different in this regard. With IMAP, mail is
usally stored on the server. Using Mailnews without connection to the
server makes no much sense, apart from hard-offline mode (use only
"cache", I assume mailcheck is disabled then, too).
> Alternative solution:
> If the user is in online mode when they open their mail window, then
> check their mail in all their accounts.
No, you cannot trust the offline/online state.
- You have no way to reliably figue out, if a connection to the Internet
exists. The user has to set the state manually.
- I left Mailnews while I was online. I left it in online mode. Later,
when I am offline, I start Mailnews. online mode persisted, so Mailnews
tries to get mail. Error.
- The only way out of this is to ask for offline/online at startup. 4.x
worked that way, I never used it, because it was unacceptably annoying.
