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Bug 1086

Summary:	(Request) KMail initial setup wizard
Product:	TDE	Reporter:	Kris <krisgamrat>
Component:	tdepim	Assignee:	Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	bugwatch
Priority:	P5
Version:	R14.0.x [Trinity]
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Compiler Version:		TDE Version String:
Application Version:		Application Name:

Description Kris 2012-07-11 08:56:46 CDT

It will make things easier for some users to have an initial setup wizard for KMail. It should allow users to add an email account. For the sake of setting up the Default Identity, it should suggest adding the user's primary email account first, then have an option at the end labelled something similar to "Add another account" to allow the user to repeat the wizard for another email account.

Comment 1 Darrell 2012-07-11 11:35:19 CDT

I agree. I remember my first time configuring KMail. Awful. Confusing.

Comment 2 Kris 2012-07-11 12:49:40 CDT

(In reply to comment #1)
> I agree. I remember my first time configuring KMail. Awful. Confusing.

I don't think it's all that confusing, it's just a matter of knowing where to look to find the settings, and knowing what the settings for your email server should be.

That does give way to two other suggestions pertaining to this suggested wizard:

Store a database for some common email servers such as Gmail, AOL, etc. It's impossible to have a database for everything, hence just doing it for common ones. This is similar to Thunderbird in that when the user enters his/her email address, it can check the database to pre-enter the correct details. The only challenge there is with services like Gmail -- they offer both POP3 and IMAP for checking mail, and offer SMTP on two different ports.

The other suggestion is to tell the user where to go to set up accounts manually, and also have an option to re-run the wizard later to add additional accounts.

Comment 3 Kris 2012-07-15 16:25:29 CDT

It turns out that Kmail does have a first run wizard, it just doesn't run on initial startup if Kmail isn't launched directly (as in, if I run Kontact, I don't get the Kmail wizard, even if Kmail was never launched before).

Based on this, and that it doesn't offer the user add a second email through the wizard, I'm leaving the status unchanged.