1150411 - move "use idle command" close to "check for new messages every X minutes"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 449021

(MailNews Core :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[monperrus]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0
Build ID: 20150320202338

Steps to reproduce:

I configure the IMAP server synchronization.


Actual results:

The information about IMAP server synchronization is located at two different places.


Expected results:

1) a radio button should say:
(either)  "check for new messages every X minutes"
(or) "get notified of new messages in real time using the IDLE command"

2) The UI label of ""use idle command if the server supports it" should state the goal for instance "get notified of new messages in real time using the IDLE  command"

Comment 1

[rsx11m]

I would support that notion given that an increasing number of servers support IDLE notifications, where as sufficiently intuitive label should be used to minimize confusion.

Comment 2

[:aceman]

I could probably implement this, but I am no expert on whether IDLE does what is described here.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to :aceman from comment #2)
> I could probably implement this, but I am no expert on whether IDLE does
> what is described here.

David or Nikolay can probably give a good working description

Comment 4

[Nikolay Shopik]

I think it describe perfectly. Only small note IDLE on some servers work with 60 seconds delay.

Also if Bug 479133 get implement this means IDLE no longer used but IMAP NOTIFY and this is still be real-time notification. But we probably can ignore that for now.

Comment 5

[rsx11m]

> "get notified of new messages in real time using the IDLE command"

Especially in light of comment #4, the "using the IDLE command" should probably be dropped. Something like "get notified of new messages by the server in real time" maybe?

Comment 7

[Nikolay Shopik]

>Something like "get notified of new messages by the server in real time" maybe?

Yes this is more generic. 

And it probably be better in terms UI if we don't overwhelm it with lot of text? More like area with text "Check for new message" and two radio buttons 
- every X minutes
- real time

Correct me on text if this sound odd.