On Wednesday, April 30, 2014 2:38:58 PM CEST, Jan Kundrát wrote:
On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 14:29:40 CEST, George P. wrote:
I don't want to use the "Save Outgoing Mail" feature because I
also use fetchmail to archive my emails.
Could you please elaborate on this? Why would saving a mail to
a dedicated folder be a problem?
Are you looking for a preference to always save the mail "next
to the original mail" instead of the Sent folder by any chance?
Cheers,
Jan
Hey Jan,
Sure, I can. The main thing I failed to explain here is that I fetch mail
from my ISP POP3 server to my Linux box where I run an IMAP server. When
I'm on Windows, I use Trojitá to connect to my Linux box and, when I'm on
Linux, I use either Mutt or Trojitá.
The thing is that I want to keep everything (both messages I've sent and
messages I've received) on my ISP's POP3 server. That can be seen like a
poor man's backup + I can access my email through Webmail, when I'm not
home.
Aside from my specific usage scenario, the practice of BCC'ing one's self
generally exists for other reasons too (bad reasons maybe, I don't know).
Maybe in "pure" IMAP architectures/designs such a thing/need becomes
obsolete, and since Trojitá is an IMAP client, I can understand that such a
feature does not belong in the Trojitá "core".
Here's where a scripting/plugin system could come into play. On the other
hand, some could argue that a scripting/plugin system would add bloat to
Trojitá and that to add new features patches should suffice (see dwm, a
window manager that does not suck). But extensibility is not the subject
here, so..
In case you're interested in incorporating the patch into the Trojitá
"core", I can (now) see how this bcc checkbox pollutes the compose window.
It sucks actually. In most cases, the user doesn't need to see it. Maybe we
could add an option in the SMTP options tab that reads "Offer BCC self" (or
something like that). Or maybe we can leave the patch here, just in case,
and do nothing more.
Thanks!
Cheers,
George
