Yeah, I can see that it kinda is acting like you are stupid or
something. Everyone is different, and because of that, it doesn't
really bother me. I think it could be put to more use tho. It could
have setting for that mail account. Say I want to send HTML-formatted
mail with my ISP email account, but for newsgroups, I want to send
plain-text messages, an option could be there for that.. and it would
be easier to change there, then it would be where it normally is. Or
maybe per-session options or something? Change of sig file?
Austin Marshall wrote:
> Orrin Edenfield wrote:
>
>> It should be an option. I kinda like it. Makes it look more
>> powerful. I noticed that the page that is displayed is different for
>> Local Folders, and a Mail account, and they are both different then
>> the page that is displayed when a newsgroup is selected. How would
>> you edit this page, and maybe make a link that would check email on
>> that account?
>>
>> WAIT! What if you could set like account properties to be
>> displayed.. say for instance, you could change the server name or
>> address from that page?!?! The top two links on that page are
>> clickable on the same screen (read email, compose email). Make it
>> more usefull... stick the account prefrences there, along with an
>> Apply button.
>> And definatly make THAT an option, because some people might not want
>> it to be easy to change a mail server address.
>>
>> Austin Marshall wrote:
>>
>>> Sebastian Späth wrote:
>>>
>>>> Daniel Bratell wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> I just downloaded and installed build 2001021508 which is version
>>>>>> 0.8 and to my surprise, there is an outlook-like screen in my
>>>>>> face laughing at me. I use Mozilla because the mail suite didn't
>>>>>> leave me feeling like a moron, like Outlook has done in the
>>>>>> past. So, this begs the question, how do i disable it? and make
>>>>>> it look like the previous versions.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> What do you wnat to be shown there instead? User studies showed
>>>>> that users were confused by a completely empty screen.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That's why these user have the option to get
>>>> http://mozilla.org/mailnews/start.html as their startpage for
>>>> mailnews in the preferences. Configurable to any page or to turn
>>>> off, that's cool.
>>>>
>>>> But showing that thing on all starts makes me feel like a moron who
>>>> needs to get
>>>> a helping hand every time I want to check mail. Better to provide a
>>>> good tutorial
>>>> on how to learn to use Mozilla the real way, instead of adding this
>>>> "Well, we know you don't know what to do now, so that's what we
>>>> suggest you to do now" page.
>>>>
>>>> Sebastian
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I totally agree, however, i seem to be the only want that has this
>>> problem becase no one has brought it up yet, could be becase it's
>>> not a clean install. But the
>>> http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/start.html at startup doesn't seem
>>> to do anything, instead, it writes the "Well, we know you don't know
>>> what to do now, so that's what we suggest you to do now" over both
>>> panes, blocking the start page making the option pointless. Could
>>> this be a bug?
>>>
>
> i was happy with the way it was in 0.7, that's all i'm saying, i just
> want to know how to disable the "You're an idiot, and this is what you
> need to do to access your mail" page, and bring up the fact that, the
> mail star page option is pointless because it gets covered up by the
> thing that annoys me the most.
>
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