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[Alberto Mardegan <1421923@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Niklas for your excellent work! I've read your blog post, and
quickly had a look at the account-polld code. I have a few remarks,
which I'm presenting in a strictly random order :-)

- You don't need to create an account plugin for GMail. GMail uses the google account, so for GMail account-polld can simply ship a .service file containing the needed imap parameters
- GMail can use OAuth: https://developers.google.com/gmail/oauth_overview (you can have a look at Dekko's code for details)
- Stressing the above point :-) I believe that OAuth is almost a must, if you want to support 2-factor authentication (I know there are ways around it, but they are not convenient for the user, and OAuth offers better security)
- But yes, we can have a generic IMAP plugin for other account types
- Online Accounts offers an account plugin for SASL. It's not packaged to Ubuntu, but only because no application has used it so far. We can add it, the code is here: https://gitlab.com/accounts-sso/signon-plugin-sasl/tree/master (I'm not sure whether this will make your life easier or harder, since this plugin, unlike all the others, is interactive: the client should invoke it every time a challenge is received from the server -- but I thought I'd mention it anyways)
- I see a lot of data files in your branch, probably related to character encoding; I wonder if you could use a library instead? Maybe GLib offers the functionality you need?

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Title:
  No notifications for new mails

Status in Online Accounts: Account plugins:
  New
Status in Dekko:
  Triaged
Status in account-plugins package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in account-polld package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Hi!

  In the BQ E4.5 Ubuntu Edition, I'm not getting notificactions for new
  mails.

  Testing (by example)
  1. Kill Dekko.
  2. Send you an email.
  3. Open Dekko.
  4. Change quickly to another app before Dekko starts.
  5. Bug: No notification
  6. Go to Dekko: You'll see your new mail.

  FYI as improvement, for me, in Dekko is not clear if Dekko checks the
  mail after X minutes or is a push notification.

  Thanks in advance!

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