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Bug 211579 - Misleading menuitem names. Postponing messages is hard. =)
Misleading menuitem names. Postponing messages is hard. =)
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
pre-1.5 (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: Anna Marie Dirks
Evolution QA team
: 221749 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: 216096
 
 
Reported: 2001-10-03 15:55 UTC by Cody Russell
Modified: 2013-09-10 14:02 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Cody Russell 2001-10-03 15:55:07 UTC 
I clicked "Send Later" on a message, and it put it in my Outbox.  Whenever
I opened Evolution later on, it appeared to be trying to send it during the
Send/Receive dialog, but always failed, and I figured this was just how it
dealt with Postponed messages.. but I left Evolution open overnight and at
some point it actually sent the mail.

Now that I am writing this bug, I finally have figured out what "Send
Later" is for, but it is still very misleading.  I think "Save to Outbox"
would make more sense.  I suppose "Save Draft" is what I wanted, but the
wording is not very good, I think.  I think "Postpone Message" would be
more intuitive.
Comment 1 Luis Villa 2001-10-17 00:27:47 UTC 
A UI polish item to look at in the 1.1 timeframe.
Comment 2 Luis Villa 2001-11-26 17:03:54 UTC 
Because of the decision to remap 1.1->1.2 and 1.2->1.4, I'm going to be
moving a large number of bugs around in the bugzilla. You can just
search on 'body contains' 'Because of the decision to remap' and mark
all as read. Please direct all questions about this change to
evolution@ximian.com, not the bug.
Luis
Comment 3 Jeffrey Stedfast 2002-04-05 23:25:22 UTC 
*** bug 221749 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Anna Marie Dirks 2002-04-09 22:58:41 UTC 
This menuitem is going to be changed to either "Save in Outbox" or
"Save to Outbox". I need to talk to a few more users before deciding
which preposition to use, and will submit a patch very soon.
Comment 5 Jeffrey Stedfast 2002-06-27 21:57:09 UTC 
alternatively we could make Send deliver it to Outbox and do away with
the current Send functionality.

This would make it behave more like Outlook according to Keelyn
Comment 6 Jeffrey Stedfast 2002-07-08 20:51:46 UTC 
this is no longer an issue.