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[guido iodice <guido.iodice@xxxxxxxxx>]

2010/6/3 Jeremy Nickurak <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxx>

>
> 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
>

Yes, it is.


> 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.
>

Well, but I think user should be not forced to retype its account
configuration. So mail-indicator should read Evolution/Thunderbird/whatever
and import it. But user could disable some accounts.


>
> 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".
>
>

If I'm not in wrong, mail-notification does it.