New Item -> Email Account, now missing IMAP section label?

Hi @ragectl !

I can't remember that there was a special IMAP section in 1Password 8. Just checked my entries I created some weeks / month ago. It looks the same as it is today in 8.7.0-98 beta. You have to select "IMAP" or "POP3" in the "type" field.

Also, there existed a contact section, as I used it in my entries... 🤔

Are you comparing with 1Password 7 here? I don't know how it was in v7.

My email entries were created with an earlier release in 2021, not sure the exact version.

There was a section Title above the Type field, which was labelled IMAP. The same way the SMTP section has a title labelled SMTP.

It's just odd that the title has been removed.

The data still lives within a Section, and the default title for that first section has always been empty.

The v8 UI appears to not have the ability to modify the title for the first (main) section like v7 does. The section title seems superfluous given the type selector acts as a title.

I https://1password.community/discussion/comment/641116/#Comment_641116 recently on this relic Email Account category.

Hey @ragectl:

Thanks for following up on this. I've been doing some internal digging, and I wasn't able to locate any recent changes to the Email Account template that would have changed the title there. Is it possible you used a previous version of 1Password to make these items?

Jack

@Jack_P_1P

I don't think either the title or template has changed. Rather, the UI does not have a way to edit that first section's title.

The entries were likely created with version 7 on Windows back in early 2021 when I first started using 1Password.

In regard to the use of section titles, I agree they may not fit how the common user would interact with a global mail service, but separation of incoming and outgoing settings is still fairly common on smaller services.

If you wanted to change the template to look similar to the 'login' category, you could move the username & password field to be at the top, then move the other sections below.

That would cover the Office365 users who only need those first two details, while leaving sections for extra information for the users who need them. And the the sections could be renamed to "Inbound"/"Outbound" or "Receiving"/"Sending" and both be visible?

@ragectl

I'm fairly confident the category template won't be changed (given that original categories have been static for a decade?). My comments in the other thread were aimed not as criticism or issues; rather, the remarks were about helping the OP's clarity about how best to fill in the template as it is defined today (so that we could get fields correctly assigned).

Anyway, Cheers.