MachV/Mozilla: Mail: Preferences	UI Specification
Mail/News Specific Preferences	Last Modification: 04/13/2025 14:29:03

Author: Jennifer Glick
Creation Date: 17 November 2000

Status: Mostly Complete.

Quicklinks:

    Message Display
    Message Composition
    Send Format
    Addressing
   Offline

Feature Team

Engineering:

Scott Putterman, Varada Parthasarathi

Product Marketing:

Kevin Murray

QA:

Laurel Carlson

Docs: Robin Foster Clark

UE:
Jennifer Glick

Open Issues

Summary

This spec outlines the preferences for Mail/News and Address Book specifically.

Design Details

Mail & Newsgroups preference item should be selected and expanded when a user enters Preferences from Mail or News. Double clicking on an item with a twisty should select that item AND expand it's twisty.

Mail & News (Top Level)
IN	Comments
General Settings:
3.0 style vs. 4.x style layout	4.x style has sidebar below the folders. 3.x style has a separate column to the left of the folders for the sidebar (closed by default).
Confirm when moving folders to the Trash	Default: On
Play a sound when new messages arrive	Default: On
Mail Start Page Enable check box, Location text field, and "Reset" button	Default: On

OUT
Use Mail from MAPI-based applications
Double Click folder for new window	Default behavior. Single click selects Folder.
Mac only - Use internet configuration
Some SideBar/Folder pane settings?
Button Appearance/Show Toolbar As (Pictures and Text, Picture only, Text only.	Global setting for now
Unread message color, font, size. Can we do this?
Double Click message for new window	Re uses an existing window.
Remember the last selected message	Default: On

Message Display
IN	Comments
Plain quoted text displayed with (Style, Color, Size)
Display plain text messages with... - Fixed/Variable Width Font.
For incoming messages:
Wrap incoming plain text messages
Convert emoticons to graphics
Display structured phrases as HTML styles	Not in UI but still a pref. On by default.
Languages Use the following character coding as the default for viewing messages:"
OUT
HTML Message settings	Follows Browser prefs for now.

Message Composition
Items	Comments
Forwarding and replying to messages
Default forward style (Attach or Inline)	Default Netscape: Inline Default Mozilla: Attachment
Quote original message/start above or below message.	Default Netscape: above message Default Mozilla: below message
Composing Messages:
Spell check before sending	Default: Off
When composing in HTML and sending in HTML, convert structured phrases to HTML styles.	Not in the UI but still a pref. Off for Netscape by default. On for Mozilla by default.
Wrap plain text messages	Default: 72
Send messages that use 8 bit characters as "quoted printable" MIME	Default: Off
Languages Use the following character coding as the default for composing messages:"

Send Format
Items	Comments
HTML messages to recipients not listed as being able to read them...	Default Netscape: Ask me what to do Default Mozilla:
HTML and Plain Text Domains

Addressing
Items	Comments
Address Collection Client prefs Incoming Messages, Outgoing Messages Newsgroup Messages	Default: On Default: Off
Limit the Collected AB to X cards	Default: 700
Address Autocompletion: Local ABs Directory Do not search in the directory	Default: On

OUT: Do not add the following domains
OUT: Client and Netcenter address book sync prefs - Server - Port

Offline
Items	Comments
When starting <productname>: Remember my previous online/offline state (default) Ask me if I want online or offline Mode
When going online: Ask me if I want to send my unsent messages (default) Automatically send my unsent messages Do not send my unsent messages
When going offline: Ask me if I want to download messages for offline use (default) Automatically download messages for offline use Do not download messages for offline use
Diskspace: Compact folders when it will save over X KB

Open Issues

Summary

Design Details

Mail & News (Top Level)

Message Display

Message Composition

Send Format

Addressing

Offline

Issues