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Please think of the user

Posted Jul 22, 2006 23:54 UTC (Sat) by dwheeler (guest, #1216)
In reply to: I wish I could switch to Thunderbird by piman
Parent article: Five Power Tips for Thunderbird (Summersault Weblog)

That's pretty extreme. Users don't care about commandsets and other technical mumbo-jumbo nonsense. They want to READ AND WRITE EMAIL. If an email client can't do it, even though others can, it's a bug. Yes, there are buggy and obsolete POP3 servers, but users can almost never do anything about that... they just want to read/write their email. Any mail client needs to include a backoff approach so that it can deal with reality.

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Posted Jul 25, 2006 6:10 UTC (Tue) by piman (subscriber, #8957) [Link]

Please reread what I wrote. The user doesn't have to care about that, which is my whole point. If I had said "There should be a CAPA checkbox in the UI" then the user would have to care. Evo's approach is designed with the user in mind -- check for CAPA, if that fails, use the slow approach. That way everyone can send email.

Please think of the user

Posted Jul 26, 2006 18:41 UTC (Wed) by mikov (subscriber, #33179) [Link]

Oh, come on, this is ridiculous. I cannot use Evolution because of this, so I don't see how it is in the user's best interest. I was forced to use any of the other e-mail clients, which work out of the box with my e-mail servers.

1) Evolution: Too slow to use. Impossible to configure to be fast.
2) Thunderbird,KMail,OutlookExpress: Work fast out of the box.

I really can't fathom a scenario where 1) is better than 2) in any sense whatsoever.