Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: evolution

in Evolution Mail, Send&Receive is one combined process, which is
confusing and makes sending email messages extremely slow.

Example:
jeremy composed a new email message to recepi...@domain.tld and presses "send".
Evolution Mail stores the message in "Outbox", instead of sending it.
Jeremy is surprised to see an unsent message in his outbox, so he hits the only 
button in the main Evolution Mail UI that contains the word "send", which 
happens to be the "Send&Receive" button in the main toolbar.
Now, upon invoking this process, evolution starts querying information in all 
folders and subfolders it is configured to search via IMAP, instead of simply 
sending the message. Jeremy is confused and hits "cancel all", after he notices 
that the unsent message in OUTBOX is nolonger there.

This situation is a classic in Evolution 2.32.2 on Ubuntu (Unity) 11.04

$ apt-cache policy evolution
evolution:
  Installed: 2.32.2-0ubuntu7
  Candidate: 2.32.2-0ubuntu7
  Version table:
 *** 2.32.2-0ubuntu7 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Instead, Send and Receive should be seperate processes.
"Receive" should be automatic, if the user configures it to be so upon initial 
setup (firstrun wizard), otherwise there should be a button like "check mail" 
or "refresh".

Send should be restricted to the individual message. Bulk sending is
impractical, since we already have more obvious methods for this such as
CC or BCC.

For a while i saw a progress bar in Evolution within the "Compose
Message" window upon pressing "send", that was reasonable and made a lot
of sense.

** Affects: evolution (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: evolution
  
- in Evolution Mail, Send&Receive is one combined process, which as long
- as the respectively longest subprocess.
+ in Evolution Mail, Send&Receive is one combined process, which is
+ confusing and makes sending email messages extremely slow.
  
  Example:
  jeremy composed a new email message to recepi...@domain.tld and presses 
"send".
  Evolution Mail stores the message in "Outbox", instead of sending it.
  Jeremy is surprised to see an unsent message in his outbox, so he hits the 
only button in the main Evolution Mail UI that contains the word "send", which 
happens to be the "Send&Receive" button in the main toolbar.
  Now, upon invoking this process, evolution starts querying information in all 
folders and subfolders it is configured to search via IMAP, instead of simply 
sending the message. Jeremy is confused and hits "cancel all", after he notices 
that the unsent message in OUTBOX is nolonger there.
  
  This situation is a classic in Evolution 2.32.2 on Ubuntu (Unity) 11.04
  
  $ apt-cache policy evolution
  evolution:
-   Installed: 2.32.2-0ubuntu7
-   Candidate: 2.32.2-0ubuntu7
-   Version table:
-  *** 2.32.2-0ubuntu7 0
-         500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages
-         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
+   Installed: 2.32.2-0ubuntu7
+   Candidate: 2.32.2-0ubuntu7
+   Version table:
+  *** 2.32.2-0ubuntu7 0
+         500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages
+         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
  
  Instead, Send and Receive should be seperate processes.
  "Receive" should be automatic, if the user configures it to be so upon 
initial setup (firstrun wizard), otherwise there should be a button like "check 
mail" or "refresh".
  
  Send should be restricted to the individual message. Bulk sending is
  impractical, since we already have more obvious methods for this such as
  CC or BCC.
  
  For a while i saw a progress bar in Evolution within the "Compose
  Message" window upon pressing "send", that was reasonable and made a lot
  of sense.

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