As a student at a college that uses SquirrelMail, I recently ran into the pleasant situation of running over the quota limit and being unable to access any of my mail, new, old, or sent, due to a cryptic error message that appeared in the left and right panels. Fortunately, I was able to access "Folders" and delete an archival folder I didn't really need, thereby putting me under the limit and allowing me to see everything again. Unfortunately, I fixed it quickly enough that I didn't dwell on the error message or think of writing it down. Has anyone else experienced or know a fix for such a problem, because the average clueless user would be helpless, and in fact literally helpless if they didn't have the option of deleting a folder to free up space, as I did.
On a related topic, as I said, I keep old emails on the server, for lack of an easy way to save them locally (using the web-based interface, anyway). This doesn't bother me, but was does it that with this quota limit (recently introduced at my school) the archived files become a liability. What would be really helpful is if I could delete the attachments I don't want anymore from their parent emails, without going through the complicated process of copying each individual email's text, saving it somewhere, and deleting the original. Deleting attachments would really free up disk space, but allow me to keep the text messages I value. Doubtless anyone with an imposed quota would find this useful. Is there any way to remove attachments, and if not, why not? An even more important issue in need of fixing is the way message-autosave routines work in conjunction with auto-signout. That is to say, they don't. To start with, I am routinely signed out while composing long emails. False auto-signout is supposed to be prevented by reducing the minutes between Folder List refreshes; however I have auto-refreshing turned off, because it was causing problems with a Linux internet terminal I was using, and anyway, I like the manual control. This auto-signout is one issue that needs proper fixing. But in fact, I wouldn't care nearly as much about getting logged off, IF SqirrelMail would save my messages between sessions. As is, I press Send, it gives a message about needing to log in, I log in, go to Compose, and it's blank. Forty minutes of typing and thought, all gone. This is the one time the autosave feature would actually be really useful rather than superfluous--if it worked between sessions, in case you get logged off or lose your connection. Duh. And here's a question that needs answering, or possibly a feature that needs implementing. Very simply: Is it possible to change the display of senders in the "From" field so that only their addresses, or perhaps both their addresses and their names are shown? If not, why not? This is really quite an important feature, as a user may want to copy and paste addresses directly from the INBOX listing; for example, in order to collect spammers' addresses. I certainly don't want to have to look at each individual piece of spam just to get the address out of it. Finally and most trivial of all, something that I know no one's noticed, but is still technically a bug (really low priority, though). I recently wrote an email that featured an exceptionally-long-lots-of-dashes-between-words-to-get-my-point-accross word. Reviewing it from the Sent folder, I noticed this word went right off the page--that is, it went way beyond the line break point. Although people would rarely run into this as an actual problem, it seems to me that break points should be inserted after hyphens that come at the end of lines, not just spaces. That's how the word processors do it, after all. My two cents. Thanks for listening; I hope to have stirred up a response or two. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ -- squirrelmail-users mailing list List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
