[SimpleMail-usr] SimpleMail V0.33 Bugs & FeatureRequest()

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Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:25:58 +0200
Hi all,

I'm new to this list and actually new to SimpleMail. I've tested Simple already 
a while ago but it didn't work for my and I stopped using it. Now, there was a 
thread about SimpleMail at amigaworld.net
and decided to give it another try because I *really* *really* want to have an 
email client which is able to access my IMAP4 accounts. :-)

I'm using AmigaOS4.1 and the appropiate AOS4-version of SimpleMail v0.33.

So, after playing around with SimpleMail for a while, I've stumbling across 
quite a number of problems and these I want to report to help SimpleMail 
becoming better.

Bugs:

1) The documentation is out-dated (even though it's saying it's the 
documentation for V0.33). There's no
documentation for setting up an IMAP4-Account (only for POP3), but it's not a 
big problem because I know, how to do it (I just wanted to let you know).

2) IMAP4 (and maybe POP3) only works with SSL/STLS if one installs AMISSL v1 
and AMISSL v2 *in addition* to OS4's  pre-installed AMISSL v3. There's no hint 
about that in the documantation.

3) Changing options for the IMAP4 account seems to have no immediate effect (at 
least not for a "secure IMAP4" account setup). I first had the impression, that 
SSL only works with STLS enabled and SSL
alone doesn't seem to work, Hence, it was not possible for me to send emails 
(which requires the 'secure' option for me). There was always the error 
message: Connection cannot be made secure (or
something like that).
But then, a few days (and reboots) later, it suddenly worked! ?? It was not a 
problem of the mail-provider. I've checked that with an linux IMAP4 client and 
also it worked on the same Amiga with YAM
and POP3/SSL.
Oh, and I've just realized that the same error (or this one: "Verbindung zum 
Server fehlgeschlagen" -> freely translated: "Cannot connect to the server") 
occurs after a while if SimpleMail checks
(e.g. after every 10 minutes) for new mail. So, IMAP4 with SSL or SSL/STLS only 
works sometimes. It's not a problem of the email provider. At the same time it 
works fine with my linux machine and
also with YAM and pop3/ssl.
Oh and if SimpleMails starts to not be able to connect to the mail server, it 
never goes again (until restarting SimpleMail (and maybe rebooting?) -- have to 
check that more intensively) 

4) SimpleMail is not very stable for me. Clicking a lot on the folder-tree 
caused SimpleMail to freeze (withou error message).

5) receiving new emails, updates the INBOX-message list, but the message can't 
be read in the message-window below! Only the header of the email is displayed, 
not the body (i.e. the text of the
email). Double-Clicking the message opens a new window and then you can read 
the message correctly. Quitting SimpleMail and restarting it works, too (means, 
the message is displayed correctly also in
the message-window below the list of new emails). Just refreshing the email 
"view", by clicking on a different folder and back has no effect. The message 
stays unvisible in the message-window. This
sometimes happens also for all emails (not only for new emails). Quitting 
SimpleMail and restarting it, solves always the problem (but is not very 
convenient :-) ).

So, at the moment It's not really usable for me. I hope you can fix these 
issues, because I *need* the IMAP4 functionality :-)

Feature Requests:

1) Make it Multiuser-like! So multiple users can use SimpleMail on the same 
machine without the possibiliy to read the mails from each other. I think, for 
emails, that's important and YAM can do it.
Switching the user-account setting on-the-fly without the need to restart the 
email-client would also be nice :-)

2) Allow different timings for checking new emalis on different email-accounts. 
Some accounts need to be checks every 2 minutes for new emails (because it's 
important to get notified immediately for
important emails). And others are not that important an can be checked every 1h 
or so.

3) Display the folder-structure of IMAP4-Accounts really as folders withs 
subfolders! At the moment, SimpleMail just shows a list within the folder-tree 
on the upper-left window part:

   INBOX
   folder1.subfolder1
   folder1.subfolder2
   folder1.subfolder3
   folder2.subfolder1
   folder2.subfolder2

without the possibility to fold the list, such that you only can see:

  INBOX
  folder1
  folder2

The problem with the list-view is, that it can be pretty long (imagine, that 
you have a single folder for each contact to store emails according to sender 
of an email).


Okay, thanks for reading :-) I hope, you can improve SimpleMail. At the moment, 
I still have to use YAM/POP3, but I'd really, really like to use 
SimpleMail/IMAP4 :-)

nexus  



-- 
Everybody is talking about the weather but nobody does anything about it.
-- Mark Twain

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