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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: adding timestamp to transmission completed statusbar message
From:       Marc Mutz <mutz () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-02-26 12:58:09
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On Wednesday 26 February 2003 12:16, Patrick S. Vogt wrote:
<snip>
> An other option would be to have an other program that allows the
> user to switch networksettings and then notify KMail to use a
> different SMTP server/mailsending profile.
<snip>

That would be the most desireable, of course. E.g. make some kcontrol 
module (or kppp) emit a dcop signal.

> for the MX records would work in most networks I am plugged into, non
> of them uses a smarthost for message injection.

Every single network I am on does this. Not per rfc 2476, but there's a 
smarthost everywhere that all clients should send mails to instead of 
letting local MTAs deliver it directly, since most relay MTAs won't 
accept messages from such hosts (ie. ones with dynamically assigned IP 
addresses).

> > That leaves two options (which are not mutually exclusive):
> > 1. Use SLP to find smarthost SMTP servers.
> > 2. Extend profile management with user profile creation,
> > modification and fast switching (toolbar button).
>
> I would first implement the 2nd option (with an automatic
> recognition, since only having a toolbar button would not change
> much) nevertheless it might be nice to have the 1st one too.

Note that the first one is an order of a magnitude easier than the 
second. The first one just needs a tiny class for OpenSLP encapsulation 
that you can probably mostly cut'n'paste from krdc and make the 
transport classes accept slp urls.

The other one needs readProfile() methods implemented for almost every 
class that currently has readConfig(). Grep the source for readConfig 
and you'll the how big that task is ;-)

> Whats about my other two proposals?  (They are more important in my
> eyes.) It's really nice to have the time stamp.

I don't have an opinion on this. It would probably be a nice feature to 
begin with :-)

> It would be really nice if KMail would stop checking for mail, if no
> network is available.

I think that this would perfectly fit into the KDE-wide network profile 
framework you described above. Or do you intent to do it 
mozilla/evolution style: add a File->Work {Off,On}line menu item? That 
would probably be easy, but don't you think that a KDE-wide framework 
would be more fitting? Would you want to tell every network application 
you have open (irc, mail, web, download manager) that you're going 
offline or would you prefer to have a kicker applet that you could 
click on to do all that in one go ;-)

Marc

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