Talk:CPanel mail options
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Too long (resolved)
As this is one of the most popular wiki articles, I think this article is getting too long or difficult to pinpoint specific information from it. I wonder if it would be better to expand on articles in their own article? Aussiepete
- I'd like to see this article as an overview - what is email?, what are forwarders? what is domain forwarding? etc, then link off to more detailed articles explaining how to do stuff in cPanel. --Twz 16:42, 25 June 2007 (EST)
- I think this is a confusing article because it doesn't necessary relate to the links coming to it - this is specifically explaining the separate options within the mail in cpanel, this should almost be a disambiguation page, this particular article being Mail (cPanel) and another mail which discusses the general info about mail etc. These need to be distinguished. Aussiepete 17:07, 25 June 2007 (EST)
- Agreed. But I don't think disambiguation is required - email is email. As long as we have a clear purpose, eg EmailGeneral + EmailOptions(cPanel), etc and make sure all links go to the right page. --Twz 17:14, 25 June 2007 (EST)
- I think this is a confusing article because it doesn't necessary relate to the links coming to it - this is specifically explaining the separate options within the mail in cpanel, this should almost be a disambiguation page, this particular article being Mail (cPanel) and another mail which discusses the general info about mail etc. These need to be distinguished. Aussiepete 17:07, 25 June 2007 (EST)
cPanel 11 options (resolved)
Considering the changes from 10 to 11, what is the likelihood of pages like this where a "subpage" used to exist in X2 (and no longer exist in X3) be broken up into each section? Half of these already have their own page and then the respective image can redirect to the needed article (I've found out it borks with #anchors) giving click-able images :) --Scott T 12:07, 26 June 2007 (EST)
- Not exactly sure what you mean. #anchors are automatically created for ==headings==. When major changes are made to a page, you can check "What links here" to tidy up linking pages. --Twz 12:35, 26 June 2007 (EST)
- Sorry about that. It was mentioned on the Talk:cPanel page for clickable images to jump to sections (for example, the Email Accounts for cPanel 11 would link to the 'Manage/Add/Remove Accounts' anchor) except the #REDIRECT doesn't like #'s and the default [[Image:xyz#abc]] tag appears to strip them out when it also creates the link. Alternative is to go back to unclickable icons but then we loose the 'Pages linking here' thus the images become classed as 'unused' --Scott T 12:58, 26 June 2007 (EST)
- We might have to make do with unclickable images for now. I believe the latest version of MediaWiki supports redirects to an anchor, but there are also issues if changing a heading - even slightly - anything linked to that heading will break. And there's no way of finding what links to an anchor afaik. --Twz 13:25, 26 June 2007 (EST)
- There is a mention in the user guide for MediaWiki to have a (complex) image template to allow linking images to an article or removing the link by using something like {{img|filename=Imagename.gif|link=none}} - but it is a complicated setup for a minor issue. Aussiepete 15:57, 26 June 2007 (EST)
- We might have to make do with unclickable images for now. I believe the latest version of MediaWiki supports redirects to an anchor, but there are also issues if changing a heading - even slightly - anything linked to that heading will break. And there's no way of finding what links to an anchor afaik. --Twz 13:25, 26 June 2007 (EST)
- Sorry about that. It was mentioned on the Talk:cPanel page for clickable images to jump to sections (for example, the Email Accounts for cPanel 11 would link to the 'Manage/Add/Remove Accounts' anchor) except the #REDIRECT doesn't like #'s and the default [[Image:xyz#abc]] tag appears to strip them out when it also creates the link. Alternative is to go back to unclickable icons but then we loose the 'Pages linking here' thus the images become classed as 'unused' --Scott T 12:58, 26 June 2007 (EST)
cP 11 rewrite? (resolved)
I was just starting to head through and add icons to each of the pages I had linked up with the cPanel options pages and after actually looking at some of the articles, there seems to be a bit of "iffyness" (?) in some of the pages. Part of Webmail (cPanel) is copied here with a 'see main article'. The 'Email Forwarders' refers the reader to Email_Forwarding yet nothing on the page relates to the cPanel method (instead linked to here before I removed the link) and talks about a separate method. MX Entry has two lines here and then points to a 'main article' which has even less and again doesn't relate to cPanel... What was/is the aim for these pages? Personally I think this page should be culled down since most of the info is handed off to other pages anyway... What are your ideas? --Scott T 21:14, 29 June 2007 (EST)
- Iffyness abounds! This is not just a cPanel 11 thing - this page is just dodgy - see ==Too long== discussion above. Maybe this page should be the next "collaboration" - there are a few messy pages like this. (The icons are a nice idea by the way!) --Twz 21:40, 29 June 2007 (EST)
- Thanks but the icons weren't my idea. I saw one or two other pages with them so decided to add them where they were missing, but yes - there needs to be some sort of splitting off. Would it be best to keep cPanel email pages in one page or in several sections (ie, webmail (cpanel), spamassassin (cpanel), mx entry (cpanel), etc? --Scott T 22:06, 29 June 2007 (EST)
- The new Email page covers all the basic info about email in general. The "cPanel email options" are summarised on cPanel, so I think this page could be (eventually) deleted and split into a page for each item, ie Email accounts (cPanel), Webmail (cPanel), SpamAssassin (cPanel), Forwarders (cPanel), Auto responders (cPanel), Default address (cPanel), Mailing lists (cPanel), Mail filters (cPanel), Email delivery route (cPanel), MX entry (cPanel). (Some of these pages already exist with a different name) --Twz 12:30, 3 July 2007 (EST)
cPanel mail options
This page has undergone a complete transformation. It is now just a list of the mail options in cPanel. The Template cPanel options has only 1 mail entry, which is this page. That template could be trimmed down further, eg 1 item for "cPanel_File_options", 1 for "cPanel_Domain_options" etc, and each of these with their own page. The questions is should these be articles, or mini-templates? Also see discussion on the main template page. --Twz 21:01, 9 July 2007 (EST)
Deletion
My views on this page. It isn't linked to anywhere important (only proposed really) and seems unneeded as it duplicates information. Twz and I have already had a discussion on this one - see User_talk:Twz --Scott T 11:38, 2 February 2008 (EST)
- Doesn' look like it's really needed. It seems to just link off to other places, if it had more information, and 'see more' links it might be worth keeping. At the moment it's doing the job of a category, putting all the links in the one place. Might be worth just adding a "cPanel mail options" Category? -- Joel Wigley 00:28, 4 February 2008 (EST)
