Hello.
It is a pleasure to see Beonex work on a secure, spam-free communicator
package. However, here are some suggestions.
These are for the development team, of course :-)
I've tried to write them so most of them aren't related with the Mozilla
team's work.
Features for the mail/news client:
Save mail password
The ability to delete address books & mailboxes at will. The current
version won't let me delete predetermined mailboxes or address books.
But, first it produces a bad feeling of "limited freedom", and, second,
I don't need additional clutter if I like to use only my own mailboxes &
address books with my names.
Import mail from user-specified files. The "automatic" feature doesn't
work when I want to, say, import mail from a mailbox in the Eudora
format that's not used by Eudora or when there is no way to determine
the location of a mail client (say, if it's not written in the registry)
Show complete X-headers in a more compact format, as it was done in
Netscape Messenger 4.x & Eudora 5. Right now it takes one third of a
1152*864 screen.
Way too large.
The ability to select text in X-headers for copying.
Text editing mode as default for the mail editor
General suggestions:
Not to store user profiles under %windir%/mozilla, not to store any
information under %windir% at all (hey, it already has enough stuff in
there - why putting more?).
Ability to choose any directory for the user profiles *during
installation & setup*.
Speed optimisations. The current version's requirements are way too much
for what it does. I know it all has to do with Mozilla, but a min.
requirement of 64 MBs RAM is too much. I'm an IT consultant myself, and
I don't feel like I'll be able to recommend this package to people with
computers that have even 64 MBs RAM. They'll likely stick with Opera &
Eudora 5 (my current recommendation) - those two taken together want
less memory & CPU time than two Beonex browser windows. There are quite
many people who are using portable computers and can't upgrade easily
their machines, or just don't want to waste money on hardware if it can
be corrected in software.
Completely ditch the old Mosaic way of opening new browser copy for
every new window. This is uncomfortable, takes up too much memory and
there just is no sense in doing so. Look at Opera and its way of keeping
child document windows inside the parent one.
Integration with the latest Java RE. Whenever a Sun JRE version is
detected on the computer, Beonex should use it. As simple as that :-)
