Re: Automatic disabling of account?

On May 17, 2004, at 10:38, Michael Hanisch wrote:

> Yes - after some number of failed connection attempts, Zoe just gives
> up. (Don't know exactly how many failed tries it takes, but check the
> list archives, this has been discussed in the past few weeks.)

If the app fails to connect to an account 10 times in a row. You can 
control this through the ServiceAgent's failure.count property. A value 
of zero disable this feature.

> I agree, would be nice if this were shown on a prominent location...

For example?

> Email probably wouldn't work, when the user can't access the email
> server in the first place, and just "dropping" a message in the mail
> index doesn't sound right...

Yep... the app is not going to start injecting random status report in 
your message flow :)

However any reasonable alternatives are welcome.

Application feedbacks seems to be a recurrent concern... any concrete 
ideas on how to improve the current situation?

Thanks :)

Cheers,

R.



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