The email command option "use live mail if possible" should be a checkbox

[diederik]

In the global settings, the e-mail account has two choices:

• use live mail if possible
• use a given command

The first option should be a checkbox, so KMess automatically falls back to the e-mail command when Live mail is not available.

The dialog becomes:

label: "Use the following e-mail command"
text field: [the text field]
checkbox: [x] use live e-mail if this is available for the account you are
connected with.

Preferably, the first option should be a combo box, to choose between "Kontact", "KMail", "Thunderbird", ...

[valerio]

The situation is quite different, as I've discovered recently (after committing the global settings misc page).

No email clients can handle Live™ accounts, due to the fact that it is not available via POP3, IMAP or whatever protocols mail clients use. It's just available via their web interface.

Therefore, Live accounts can _only_ use Live webmail. For the others, the mail client chooser sure has to be improved.

[valerio]

Fixed with r3309.

[diederik]

No email clients can handle Live™ accounts, due to the fact that it is not available via POP3, IMAP or whatever protocols mail clients use. It's just available via their web interface. Therefore, Live accounts can _only_ use Live webmail.

That's not entirely true. For the past few years I've used hotwayd to access my hotmail. It emulates a pop3 server at localhost, which connects to Hotmail over DAV.

So it is possible to use Kontact to access Hotmail.

You can also enter a comment which knotify should execute for an event. With this combined I had the following setup:

• kmess sends an event
• knotify starts getmail which downloads my Hotmail automatically to my local IMAP server.
• the e-mail command was kontact --module kmailplugin so it opened my e-mail directly.

In other words, I wouldn't mind if the e-mail command remains available if you disabled the "use live e-mail if possible" checkbox. :-)

[valerio]

Crap! Now I have to reengineer that commit! :P

[valerio]

Fixed with r3443.