[Kde-pim] [kdepim-users] Connection timeouts - sending

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Wednesday 18 March 2009, Peter wrote:
>  If all KMail users informed us that the
> timeouts are fine, then we could say that it is fine for everyone, but not
> all KMail users need this feature of course, but some probably do, or would
> like it. It's about giving the user the opportunity to decide if they want
> to use such a setting or not, by adding it as a feature, surely.

Adding a new feature or configuration option if a small group of users would 
potentiall need them is not a good guide for usable interfaces.
The rarely used setting should not be in the graphical user interface for 
settings as the number of configuration options raises complexity.

I cannot judge it changing the SMTP connection timeout is important or not.
The original poster might have had a graylisting issue, in which case no 
timeout value would have helped the cause. In order to support or not support
adding a configuration feature I would want to know more about the use cases.

Bernhard


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