Evolution doesn't seem to have an option to check pop-mail at startup

[Hidde Brugmans]

Which is rather annoying.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214884: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214884

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

this is a bug open upstream about this:
http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14884

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

*** Bug 18249 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

*** Bug 21645 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

New upstream bug url is: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214884 - will
probably be fixed in 2.5

[Hidde Brugmans (hcbrugmans-deactivatedaccount)]

closed upstream

[Hidde Brugmans (hcbrugmans-deactivatedaccount)]

marked fixed upstream

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for updating the bug, the current dapper package does update the mails at startup if the automatic lookup for the mails option is used as pointed by upstream

[Alexander van Loon (avanloon)]

"Mails are automatically checkd (sic) on startup, if and only if "automatically check every N minutes" is set."

If you ask me, I don't think it is user friendly that the option for checking at startup is "hidden" in the option for checking for mail every X minute. How ironical that Evolution is fixing bugs in a way that is user unfriendly while Evolution is a PIM app for a DE that aims to be easy to use.

Common sense, if I'd want to enable the option to check for e-mail at startup, I'd search for an option which goes by that name, I would NOT enable the option to check for mail every X minute, because that is a completely different option. Do you guys think the average user will be able to get their mail checked at startup if they can't find the option for that in the Preferences (instead they need to have innate knowledge that the option to check for mail at startup is in fact included in the option to check for mail evey X minute)?

So if you ask me this bug is NOT fixed. But whatever, Ubuntu can't help it, that's probably the way the Evolution dev's consider bugs "fixed". They can't even get some of the most trivial functionality in Evolution working the right way, I'm a bit disappointed.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

There is a another bug open upstream with discussions about adding an extra option:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=312106

BTW ranting on distribution tracker for upstream decisions will not make the situation better and can create some frustration between people so there is no need for that, we are all trying to make the best OS possible

[Jörg Frings-Fürst (jff-de)]

Bug from 2011. Version not longer supportet.
Change status to Invalid