Re: Re: [Evolution] Visual Notification of Mail

["Sterling Anderson" <sterling sterlinganderson net>]

My bad, I was thinking of the POP oriented applets. I see what you are
saying. That would be nice.

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Leone <turgon mike-leone com>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 11:39:26 AM
To: <sterling sterlinganderson net>; <badger wi rr com>;
<evolution helixcode com>
Subject: Re: [Evolution] Visual Notification of Mail

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sterling Anderson" <sterling sterlinganderson net>
>
>
> > There are panel applets that offer that functionality.
>
> Would these applets be able to go into the Evo mail folder/mailbox that
the
> mail has been filtered into? Aren't most of them either POP oriented, or
one
> specific mbox file oriented?
>
> Example - I have a POP account. I set Evo to automatically get mail every
10
> minutes. It gets it, and filters into it's proper mail folder/mailbox
> Don't most of the applets check for new mail in a POP mailbox? What
happens
> if a mail comes in AFTER the applet checks; then Evo picks it up; and when
> the applet goes to look in the POP mailbox, it will say no new mail. Which
> is false, obviously.
>
> What would be nice would be for Evo to indicate that there is new mail -
> regardless of which mail folder/mailbox it's been filtered into. Yes, I
> realize that would mean either a new applet, specifically written to check
> Evo mail folders/mailboxes, or new functionality added to Evo itself.