[imp] Various meaningful IMP default settings

[Daniel Vollbrecht]

Hi all,

having non-Ajax Horde 3 for many years, I recently upgraded to 5.2.2.

I noticed the following drawbacks compared to the previous version which 
are set by default and would like to propose the following changes (the 
first two points could be considered as bugs):

1. Apparently empty large folders: Show a message "loading" notification 
if opening large folders (1000+ messages on a remote and slightly slow 
IMAP server in my case). Currently, large folders are shown empty with 
"no messages". Even pressing the reload button and waiting a long time 
doesn't help. However, if I browse to another folder and immediately 
browse back to the large one, all messages are shown - and then cached 
during the session. But after logout, same again. This really confuses 
the users ("all mails lost!").

2. Message order: Folders are always opened in the right order that I 
configured (newest on top), but the oldest message at the bottom is 
selected and thus the scroll bar is at its bottommost position. It 
should be at the topmost position as I always have to scroll up for 
miles to see the newest messages.

3. Mail view: show sender email address *and* 'from' name by default (or 
by user option), not only the from name (From: from name <sender at domain>).

This really seems to be an Outlook disease that also made it into e.g. 
Thunderbird, but at least there it applies only to addressbook-known 
users and there's an option to switch it off which IMP doesn't have.

E.g. I get lots of different MAILER-DAEMON messages and never know from 
which system they are as the from name is the same, only the email 
adress differs. Furthermore, email is an untrustworthy application, so 
at least users shouldn't be forced to not even be able to verify the 
address.

4. Verifiability: Regarding 3, it would be even more useful if 
DKIM-signatures could additionally be shown under the From/To lines as 
GMail does it ("mailed by/verified by sender.domain").

5. Country flags: Introduce an option and set it default to expand the 
'from' field to show country flags immediately to avoid two clicks (one 
to the triangle left to it and one more on the sender's name).

If any of these can already be configured, please let me know as I 
couldn't find options. I think this belongs into the options and should 
not be solved by a hook.


Best, Daniel