El 15/08/13 05:16, Paul B. Gallagher escribió: >>> Here are a couple of scenarios where it makes sense: >>> >>> • For most ordinary users who have one ISP and several accounts, the >>> SMTP settings will be the same, so the best strategy is just to >>> point a >>> new account to the existing SMTP server, which is set as default. >> >> How likely is that? > > In my experience, most users have only one ISP. So if they have > several accounts, which is the scenario we're discussing, we're > already there.
Please note that having only one ISP, which is the common scenario indeed, has little or nothing to do with having email accounts with different email providers. Most sensible people nowadays don't use the ISP provided email accounts, since if they switch ISP, they lose the email accounts. Instead, people use email accounts from Gmail, Yahoo!, Outlook.com and several other email providers, and while it may happen to have several GMail accounts, the most sensible reason to have several accounts is for fallback service, so you would use different email providers. For instance, I have four different accounts (five a few days ago, before Lavabit.com were shut down) and none of them share the email provider with the others. >>> • For users with several accounts within the same domain (e.g., >>> someone >>> like me with their own domain), the POP settings will be the same, >>> except username and password. >> >> How likely is that? > > Pretty likely, I'd say. Maybe we travel in different circles, but I > know lots of people with their own domains, and lots of people with > two or more throwaway accounts (yahoo, hotmail, gmail, etc.). I don't know a lot of people having their own domain (and, for those that do have it, some don't use the email accounts in them as primary email, because it is not so ubiquitiously accesible as GMail or Yahoo!). So I wouldn't give this scenario more than a 25 % of total cases. >>> If I were designing the interface, I'd offer the user these options: >>> a) prepopulate with settings from an existing account (user >>> selectable) >>> and modify them; >>> b) start from scratch. I wouldn't go that way. You could ask for the email address (that's something the user is pretty much expected to know) :-) and, if the domain happens to be the same than an existing account, then some fields could be prepopulated, and the SMTP server used by default. Overall, the autoconfig feature from Thunderbird should be the way to go, although it is not perfect. JM2C -- Ricardo Palomares (RickieES) http://www.mozilla-hispano.org/ http://www.proyectonave.es/ https://diasp.eu/u/rickiees _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
