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Re: [Ayatana] mail-indicator, as an improvement of evolution-indicator



Hi Guido ;)

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 17:19, guido iodice <guido.iodice@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Mail indicator should:

With "Mail Indicator" you mean the "Messaging Menu" I suppose?
 
a) share account configuration from Evolution (of Thunderbird, if installed)

+1 on sharing account configuration.
i don't understand why until today my DE doesn't know SMTP and has no way of sending something to someone, if i select "send per eMail" from the file menu e.g. in open office.

Using a prothesis such as Evolution or Thunderbird to accomplish this task doesn't seem efficient to me. Why won't GNOME simply talk to the SMTP server directly and send what i want to send?

The inclusion of libfolks into telepathy should remedy much of the questions associated with autocompleting contact's email addresses upon typing.
 
I Totally agree on the point, that it is easier to have a 21st century biff running, than to hog CPU and RAM with a totally redundant software suite.