On 20.04.2012 23:03, Arne Berglund wrote:
On 04/20/2012 12:36, Michael Heydekamp wrote:
Is there any way to determine which settings in main.inc.php do apply no matter what, and which are only defaults for new users? Or is there any documentation around about this...?
I've never seen any definitive documentation on this, I can only speak from my own experiences running our RC system. But it comes down to this, if a preference is user-configurable, you can change the default for new users, but those changes are not retroactive. [...]
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Thanks again for this comprehensive explanation. Makes sense in some way.
It may also explain another issue which I wanted to bring up later on, but as we are just speaking about those list options anyway:
When I started RC 0.7.2 for the first few times, I saw the columns "From" and "To" in each of the folders. I found that pretty cool (as I'm using multiple identities) and did miss this a lot in Squirrel.
Then I made a "mistake": Just for testing purposes, I activated the Threads view mode by using the List Options drop-down button. But after I switched back to the List mode, all of a sudden one of the columns was gone (depending on the folder): INBOX just shows the "From" column, Sent folder just the "To" column", and so on.
I'm wondering how I can return to the "virgin" state (= having both "From" and "To" columns in all folders) and how to keep this state persistent, even after a forth-and-back change of the view mode.
I've actually used this behavior to my advantage. In general, we do not want normal users to have multiple identities, so I've set the default to "one identity, no edit on email address". But there are a few users who have legitimate need to send from a different address. So I have a second instance of RC (connecting to the same database) that is an exact mirror of the production system, except that multiple identities are allowed.
Ah, interesting! How exactly did you do that? If you feel that this is not an issue for the list, I'm happy to receive an e-mail off-list.
In short, if you need to make a retroactive change to the default user preferences, I think the simplest way to do so would be to delete the preferences data for all users in the database. I believe that if you did that all settings would revert to the current defaults on next login.
This may be the way then, yep.
Regards and thanks again, Michael
Michael Heydekamp Co-Admin freexp.de Düsseldorf/Germany