Topic: Web mail improvement

[Joe Gardner]

I use IMP for my web mail but I also am checking several accounts at the same time.  Due to personal blonde moments I occasionally forget who I'm logged on as and would like to see some reminder who I am at the top of the screen somplace.

[Andrew Reid]

Hi Joe,

I had a similar problem with IMP on my network. Users would complain that "they did not know what their email address was".

What I did was add another row to the mailbox template file, and added a

User . "@mydomain.com" ; ?> [1]

to the contents of the row.


Basically this printed their email address (which comes from their username which is stored in the $IMP[1] object) on the top of the message list.

Hope this helps!

Regards

Andrew Reid
andrew.reid@plug.cx

[1]  Note, I am not exactly sure what the name of this object is, but have a look around at the code.

[2] The file that you want to add the email address to would be under /templates/mailbox (or something like that). Editing mailbox.php3 will lead to confusement and not being able to find what you are looking for. I know. I've done it

[Adrian Chung]

Joe Gardner wrote:
>
> I use IMP for my web mail but I also am checking several
> accounts at the same time.  Due to personal blonde moments I
> occasionally forget who I'm logged on as and would like to
> see some reminder who I am at the top of the screen somplace.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean when you say that you are checking several accounts at the same time.  When you click "Compose" does your email address not show up properly in the "From" field?

[Joe Gardner]

Sure it does but you shouldn't have to open another window to do so...

[Scott Smith]

Joe

The following was posted to the developer list just minutes prior to your last posting here:

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On the e-smith 4.1b3 status page under the webmail portion, someone wanted the ability to show the users full e-mail address.  Here is a link that may help with that.  I have not tried it myself yet.

http://horde.net/~jwm/software/imp/
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Not sure if this is something worth e-smith's time to incorporate into the IMP package, but looks easy enough to implement as a local customization.

Scott

[Charlie Brady]

Joe Gardner wrote:

> I use IMP for my web mail but I also am checking several
> accounts at the same time.  Due to personal blonde moments I
> occasionally forget who I'm logged on as and would like to
> see some reminder who I am at the top of the screen somplace.

Please address your concerns to the developers of IMP - we will be reluctant to implement a non-standard version.  (If we have reason to contact them we will pass the opinion on).

John Bennett has pointed us to a patch which is available for IMP:

http://horde.net/~jwm/software/imp/

If you like the feature, you are welcome to install a patched version on your machine (usual warranty precautions apply if you are a supported customer).

Regards

Charlie