[MlMt] Going online/offline

[Bill Cole]

On 9 Sep 2016, at 17:41, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> I know that I can take a mailbox online and offline by right-clicking 
> on the source icon for it.  There are two problems with that.
>
> First, when I right-click on the icon (which I do by a two-finger tap 
> on my trackpad, if that makes a difference), it tries to assemble a 
> display of all messages from that source, in all folders.  That's a 
> great thing to do on a single-tap, but to me a double-tap shouldn't 
> shift focus, it should just call up the attribute menu.  Second, I 
> have ~8 mailboxes; if I want to go offline completely (and I sometimes 
> do, such as right now when I'm in a low-bandwidth environment), I 
> don't want to have to scroll down to all eight and go through the 
> time-consuming double-tap/select process.
>
> Apart from fixing the focus change (and I don't know if that's 
> technically feasible), would it be possible to have Offline and Online 
> entries in the File menu, with both an "All" option and entries for 
> individual mailboxes?

We're having a similar discussion in another active thread...

One trick is to collapse all the source accounts, select them all at 
once (click the first one, shift-click the last one), and use the 
Mailbox->Take Offline menu command.