Preferences Design

Status Putting together proposal for .4

Motivations Have one centralized design page for all preference panel design across 3 platforms.

Server types and account settings (mainly for 0.4)

Protocol	Server address	User name	Password	Path	SSL*	Port*	Other
IMAP				Path prefix(?, any default?)		default: SSL=993, plain=143
SMTP		[]	[]	None		default=25	Full name, (reply-to) email address
WebDAV				base URL (URL combines server address & path)		?
POP*				None		default: SSL=995, plain=110	Leave on server

* = Not in 0.4 (Won't be supporting POP protocol, and SSL transport in 0.4)

Setting up accounts

• Mail accounts settings
• Users can decouple Incoming and Outgoing mail servers at will. Selecting a different SMTP server from the combo box pulldown will bring up a different set of attribute values for Full name and Email address.
• Accounts_Mail.gif:
  

• Accounts_Sharing.gif:
  

Status Bar

[This is just a start. We should grab Brian to come up with a list messages, and then figure out which ones are meaningful to users]

• Messages
• # of items in collection
• Connecting to...
• Logging in as to
• Looking for new or changed items in
• Synchronizing <3/28> items
• Error:

• Placement bottom of main content area (ie. browser status bar)

-- MimiYin - 10 Jul 2004