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Re: [Ayatana] MI idea suggestion

the best way to handle web mail in the long term would be to use the telepathy framework. it still needs some work on it's email parts though.
maybe via empathy like pidgin does. or separately
The reason why this is better is that it would be PUSH rather than PULL ie it wont check every x mins to see if new mail is there.
as soon as mail is reached on server, server pushes it to user.
hence instantaneous.
though maybe there might be more data usage. or maybe not as i guess server pushes it in case of new messages only and IM clients maintain the connection continuously anyway.
Though maybe this solution (via empathy) might not be ideal for the minority who dont use IM actively.

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Andrew SB wrote:
One issue I've had with the MI applet is that in its current state it
misses one of the largest messaging use cases, webmail.
I know there's a gmail-notifier around, does it talk MI? If not, who's up for helping it do that in Lucid?


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