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evolution package

Evolution should give feedback when messages are sent

Bug #84065 reported by Vincenzo Ciancia on 2007-02-08

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #84269: When invoked from nautilus-sendto, evolution should show the progress dialog for sending the message. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Evolution	New	Unknown	gnome-bugs #431301
	evolution (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Low	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: evolution

When I send e-mail (especially with the nautilus-sendto plugin, but also in general in evolution) there is no feedback when it is "really" sent, i.e. when transfer is completed. Last week I made a mess at office for this reason - I closed evolution, went offline, I am not sure at all, but I found my message still in outbox and I thought to have sent it. If some visual feedback e.g. a small progressbar in the statusbar, could be shown after clicking on "send" this would help. This feedback should be given in a separate window if the main window does not exist, e.g. after "send to" in nautilus.

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote on 2007-02-09:

Thanks for your report. Which version of Ubuntu and evolution do you use?

This is what happens, when I send a mail with evolution:
* "Outbox" changes to "Outbox (1)" and is written in bold letters, so I know it contains a new item.
* If I quit during the process, a dialog tells me there are unsent items and asks if I really want to close.

If this is what happens for you, I'm inclined to close the bug report, as I'd feel evolution would get in my way for opening a dialog for every mail I send. If something else happens, please let us know.

nautilus-sendto is a different problem - can you open a separate bug report about that?

Changed in evolution:
assignee:	nobody → desktop-bugs
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	Unconfirmed → Needs Info

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Vincenzo Ciancia (vincenzo-ml) wrote on 2007-02-09:

When the evolution main window is visible, the behavior is as you described. First of all, let me clarify that I would dislike a dialog window, too. However, outbox can be not visible if the list of folder is long - and, believe me, mine is :) If I quit, ok I am warned. However if my network connection does not work well, or I suspend my laptop before sending the e-mail, it will not be sent. A progressbar in the statusbar of the main window would be not so bad, or some other "sensitive" feedback, e.g. the cancel button becoming red, something I can learn to observe and that is always in sight.

Anyways, I reported the bug mainly for nautilus-sendto, so feel free to reject this bug if you think things are nice as they are now, I'll open another one for the other issue.

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2007-04-16