On 24 Jul 2002, it is alleged that lloyd sauntered in to
netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news and loudly proclaimed:
>> Agreed, but he seems to want OE's behaviour. OE assumes you use POP and
>> that you want all messages from multiple POP accounts dumped into the
>> same place. That was one thing I absolutely loathed about OE (well,
>> that an it's habit of auto-executing certain attachments), but a lot of
>> people seem either to like it or to be habituated to it.
>
> I think Mozilla's model of the relationshps between incoming/outgoing
> mail servers, server accounts, and mail identities is flawed, because
> it's oversimplified.
Over-simplified, perhaps, but sane. I'm not suggesting that it couldn't be
made more flexible, but there's a tendency to see this as just being a UI
issue, which certainly *is* an over-simplification.
In Moz right now I have five accounts, four IMAP and one POP. Moz'
behaviour is sane and sensible for IMAP and I find it sane and sensible for
POP as well: I can control my mail at the account level and then decide
what I want to keep and where I want to keep it (in the account; in Local
Folders).
The only way in which this could presumably work for multiple POP accounts
would be to have separate inboxes for each account in Local Folders.
The real problem is that for each person who wants OE's behaviour (with POP
mail being dumped to Local Folders so there would be no separate accounts),
you're going to find someone who wants to get rid of Local Folders entirely
-- and both sides are gonna bitch about bloat.
But, realistically, this is an RFE, so its priority is pretty low. . . .
/b.
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