suggestions, IMP 2.3

[Troy Grady]

Folks-

Overall, 2.3 is certainly a welcome update to an already indispensable 
piece of software.  A few items for the suggestion box:

1)  Selecting/refreshing a mailbox is still a little confusing given that there 
are three ways to do this on any particular screen.  On the INBOX screen, 
for example, you've got the INBOX button on the toolbar, the mailbox 
<select> box, and the mailbox refresh icon.  On an INBOX message 
screen, you've got the toolbar INBOX button, the mailbox <select> box, and 
the "back to INBOX" hyperlink.  You could do all this with just the <select> 
box and a "go" button next to it.   Which brings me to...

2)  ...a "go" button for the mailbox <select> box.  On a few occasions, 
users have locked up the IMAP server by scrolling rapidly through the 
mailbox <select> box.  The "onChange" in the <select> box fires a login 
attempt with each <option>, so even a single user can bury the server with 
login requests just by holding the down-arrow key while the select box is 
highlighted.  Removing the onChange and adding a "go" button fixes this, 
and also provides for (1).

3)  Paging through searches on medium/big mailboxes is slow.  I gather 
that this is because IMP does not save search results as state, but rather 
re-searches each time you page through the search results.  So even 
when the search results are small, the paging is slow if the mailbox you're 
searching is big.  Which brings me to...

4)  ...big mailboxes.  In my brief test drive, IMP 2.2.3 outperforms IMP 2.3 
on big mailboxes by a wide margin.  We have some ~30,000-message 
mailboxes, and IMP 2.2.3 is actually the only mail client that can access 
them.  (Outlook Express, for example, fails downloading the messages 
somewhere around 10,000.  And who wants to download that many 
messages anyway?)  Accessing such a mailbox with 2.2.3 takes about 30 
seconds, while 2.3 takes over 2 minutes.

5)  I'm using IE 5.0 for Mac, and I can't tab into the "message" <textarea> 
in the compose window.  The cursor makes a full circle of every other 
element on the page but never hits the "message" box.  This works fine in 
2.2.3.

Thanks!

Troy

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