[drats_users] D-RATS 0.3.2b4

[Dan Smith]

Hi all,

I just posted 0.3.2b4 with the following changes:

 - Provide a way to request that a remote system check an email account
   for you
 - Add an "enabled" toggle on configured email accounts
 - Change "Incoming Email" to "Email Accounts" in preferences

Now you can right-click on a station on in the stations side bar and
choose "Request mail check".  Your system will prompt you to select one
of your configured email accounts, or to specify custom login
parameters.  When you hit the okay button, it will provide that
information to the remote system, which will do a single check of your
mail and queue any messages that it retrieves for delivery to you.  The
remote system must have an internet connection (of course) and have
message forwarding enabled for this to work.

Using this feature, you can check any mail account you want as long as
you're in range of a station that has internet access.  The best thing
to do is configure it in your "Email Accounts" section of preferences
and make sure that you can check it successfully.  Then, disable it in
your preferences so that your system isn't checking that account
directly and then request another station to check it.

I can easily add another special case to this that will present a
special "WL2K" account in the list which will assume the remote system
is running PacLink.  If someone could provide me with the default port
that PacLink uses for incoming mail, I can add that and we can extend
this further.

Also, comments on the "Request mail check" wordage in the stations menu
would be appreciated because I think it's not totally intuitive right now.

Let me know how it works for you!

-- 
Dan Smith
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