[dev] Cleaned-up monthly maintenance IMP patch

[Michael M Slusarz]

Points well taken.  I knew about the Trash problem (i.e. stuff deleted at the 
end of the month could possibly be deleted forever before the user realizes he 
needed it) but decided against doing anything to prevent this.  I must be the 
most heartless admin ever.  Looking at dates of the messages makes more sense.  
There could even be a pref for how many days/weeks/months of Trash to keep 
around.

The 'confirmation' screen is a good idea also - that was actually what I was 
planning on doing but thought it might be a bit convoluted to be incorporated 
into IMP.

I will add these suggestions to my patch and report back I guess, if there is 
still interest in this functionality.  (Your code always seems so great until 
you show it to other people :))

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz@bigworm.colorado.edu]
The University of Colorado at Boulder


Quoting Jon Parise <jon@horde.org>:

> On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 04:12:33PM -0400, Rich Lafferty wrote:
> 
> > Also, I'd encourage all three of the monthly ops to ask the user if
> > they wish to proceed (à la Pine), rather than just telling them that
> > it's being done and it's too late to avoid it.
> 
> That would be a nifty approach.  The user could be redirected to
> a maintenance screen that lists the pending maintenance tasks (if
> any are scheduled for this login sequence), and s/he could select
> the ones that they would like to perform before being directed to
> their mailbox.
> 
> A little more work, but I think that's the friendlier option.
> 
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