GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 242677
"offline server" setting
Last modified: 2021-05-19 11:33:07 UTC
Package: Evolution Priority: Wishlist Version: 1.3.2 Synopsis: "offline server" setting Bugzilla-Product: Evolution Bugzilla-Component: Mailer Description: It would be nice to have a setting for each pop3/imap/smtp server that, when checked, tells evolution that this server is also reachable in offline mode. Example 1: a local IMAP server used to store all mails, instead of having evolution store them, to be able to sometimes access the mail storage from the network. Example 2: a local POP3 server that does some processing on mails Example 3: a local SMTP server that pre-processes mails and queues them (although I admit that using sendmail here is an option, not for the other examples though. But I think there may still be situations where a local SMTP server is superior to sendmail) This check-box could be enabled by default for "localhost", "127.0.01", "::1" (and other forms) etc. The idea is that one can go into offline mode, yet retrieve/send mail from/to the local servers. Going into real "online" mode is not an option, because then other servers will not be accessible, and auto-download from those will fail and display a message all the time. The setting should apply to auto-downloading messages, as well as IMAP connections, and for SMTP when sending an email. Setting qa contact to the default for this product. This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one.
Sort of related to #272584
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