>On the other hand, we have many users which find super annoying that the INBOX folder is not immediately selected after a successful account setup, as they think TB is broken because the account central page is still visible. By "account central page" do you mean the main TB screen? All I've noticed when adding a new imap account to an existing profile is that the previous selection point in an old account remains selected and only Inbox is visible under the new account. Only when you click on the new account's Inbox do the other folders appear and any message download and store occurs. To me this behavior is fine. Do we have bug reports from these "super annoyed" users? Just curious. > So...how can we accommodate both needs? > Maybe something like this? > > - If the user goes through the regular account setup, we keep everything as it is and we don't change anything. Will Inbox be auto-selected for every new imap account when advanced is not selected? That would be a change since it is currently not auto-selected when a new imap account is added to an existing profile containing other accounts. (But again, changing this is not important to me personally.) > - If the user clicks on the "Advanced config" link in the account setup, we don't select the `INBOX` folder in order to prevent the initial download and give users the proper time to change the needed settings. Sound exactly what I would like. They can make advanced setting to change "keep..." and it only takes effect when they click the new 1st account's Inbox. This will make the 1st account in a new profile behave just like a new account in an existing profile (as it currently works). > > This seems like a good balanced solution since, most likely, users that have a good knowledge of account size, local cache, disk usage, etc, are those that feel comfortable in going through the "Advanced config" settings, while "regular" users that don't care about this will keep having the same standard first run experience. > > Does this sound good? Sounds great to me!
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>On the other hand, we have many users which find super annoying that the INBOX folder is not immediately selected after a successful account setup, as they think TB is broken because the account central page is still visible. By "account central page" do you mean the main TB screen? All I've noticed when adding a new imap account to an existing profile is that the previous selection point in an old account remains selected and only Inbox is visible under the new account. Only when you click on the new account's Inbox do the other folders appear and any message download and store occurs. To me this behavior is fine. Do we have bug reports from these "super annoyed" users? Just curious. **Edit:** I see what you mean about the account central page. After you enter the account you end up in the "Account Settings" tab and have to go select the main tb tab to see your new account in action. Yes, this might be confusing to new users. > So...how can we accommodate both needs? > Maybe something like this? > > - If the user goes through the regular account setup, we keep everything as it is and we don't change anything. Will Inbox be auto-selected for every new imap account when advanced is not selected? That would be a change since it is currently not auto-selected when a new imap account is added to an existing profile containing other accounts. (But again, changing this is not important to me personally.) > - If the user clicks on the "Advanced config" link in the account setup, we don't select the `INBOX` folder in order to prevent the initial download and give users the proper time to change the needed settings. Sound exactly what I would like. They can make advanced setting to change "keep..." and it only takes effect when they click the new 1st account's Inbox. This will make the 1st account in a new profile behave just like a new account in an existing profile (as it currently works). > > This seems like a good balanced solution since, most likely, users that have a good knowledge of account size, local cache, disk usage, etc, are those that feel comfortable in going through the "Advanced config" settings, while "regular" users that don't care about this will keep having the same standard first run experience. > > Does this sound good? Sounds great to me!