On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 09:19, guido iodice
<guido.iodice@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
A useful improvement to messaging menu should be a mail-indicator, a sort of XXI century biff. In facts, today you must have Evolution running to have an alert about incoming e-mail.
The mail-notification package, with a fix for ssl support, and support for the messaging menu, would be ideal here, I think. Gm-notify (
https://launchpad.net/gm-notify ) does great for gmail apps
Mail indicator should:
a) share account configuration from Evolution (of Thunderbird, if installed)
Tricky on this one. The nice thing about an independantly configurable mail checker (imo) is that you don't neccesarilly use the notifier in the same way as your mail client. You might want notification only about a few select folders/labels/accounts, but your mail checker will generally interact with everything.
AFAIK, there's no GUI mail client that supports configuration of notifications on this level. (mutt does, iirc).
b) check e-mail in mailboxes every X minutes (configurable?)
c) show sender and part of the mail title as a notification and a message in messaging indicator
d) if possible: open evolution on the specific message clicked in messaging menu
b-c are easy. d is tricky with web-mail. gm-notify can open a particular folder in a client, but we need an API of some kind to say "open the mail client, with folder X".