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[Jeremy Nickurak <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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".

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