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[Wouter Stomp <wouterstomp@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/11/09, Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> mac_v wrote:
> 3) When will thunderbird be included into the indicator applet?[only in
> karmic or in jaunty]...Will the minimize to indicator applet function be
> available?
> When it gets done :-). Since T-Bird is not the default in Ubuntu it won't
> get internal development at Canonical, but since lots of us use it (and lots
> of users do) we could socialise it in the community and possibly fund a
> credible coding effort - then include that in the distro.
>

It would be nice to have a notifier which supports evolution and
thunderbird, but also the most popular webmail services, at least
hotmail, yahoo and gmail. There are probably at least as many people
using webmail as there are people using desktop clients. There is one
program in the repositories which can do this already,
mail-notification, but it would probably need some improvements to be
included.

Wouter