Re: GNOME 2.10: replacing the Inbox Monitor

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 12:59 +0100, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
> Sáb, 2004-10-09 às 13:08 +0200, Rodrigo Moya escreveu:
> > On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 04:19 +0200, Jean-Yves Lefort wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I propose to replace the Inbox Monitor applet with Mail Notification
> > > (http://www.nongnu.org/mailnotify), which is superior in terms of
> > > security, features, usability and standards compliance.
> > > 
> > haven't seen any mention on the website about evolution. And I wonder,
> > now that evo is part of GNOME, wouldn't it make more sense to have the
> > inbox monitor applet monitor the Evolution mail accounts rather than ask
> > for the same configuration again?
> 
>   I completely agree with this.  I certainly wouldn't want to copy mail
> email account configuration to several programs.  Not to mention
> duplicated imap/pop connections, consuming bandwith.  Not to mention if
> I have evolution download mails through pop, the external email
> notitifcation program would be left with nothing to monitor.  But IMHO,
> it's evolution that is at fault here.  A decent email notification
> system should come built into evolution by default.  That sound
> notification that it supports certainly doesn't count as 'decent'.
> 
there is a bounty for it BTW:
http://www.gnome.org/bounties/Mailer.html#127516
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>