Re: [Evolution] An Idea

[Michael Rothwell <rothwell holly-springs nc us>]

Evolution is a Gnome app. It seems reasonable for it to include a panel
applet to indicate that there is waiting mail, etc.

-M

On 28 Mar 2001 07:05:15 -0800, Garrett Mickelson wrote:
> Understood. I could of course do the same. The problem I had was that I
> was using the applet on the Inbox.mbox in evolution/local/Ibox
> directory. They didn't jive all that well, it seemed. Since Evolution
> can auto download mail, I'd rather have an applet that checks the local
> mbox or maildir for new mail.
>
> Garrett Mickelson
>
> On 27 Mar 2001 16:25:45 -0500, David Sayres wrote:
> > I've been using the Mailcheck utility applet and it works fine. I set it
> > to check my POP account every 2 minutes and when there is new mail it
> > plays a sound and shows me how many messages. Now if you have evo
> > automatically downloading your messages than the applet may miss them. 
> > But I've never had a problem with them interfering with each other.
> >
> > David
> >
> >
> > On 27 Mar 2001 12:19:08 -0800, Garrett Mickelson wrote:
> > > Evolution just gets better day by day. Something dawned on me today
> > > though. I have evolution running on one of my five workspaces. I spend
> > > most of my time in other workspaces, whether it be browsing in Galeon or
> > > typing in Abiword. The only way I know if I have new email is by
> > > switching to the workspace with evolution running on it. I tried setting
> > > up the gnome mail applet to work with my Inbox mbox, but if both the
> > > applet and evo are accessing it, evo pops up an error message. I would
> > > love to see an applet that is part of evolution that displays new
> > > messages, maybe with a counter. Any plans for this?
> > >
> > > Garrett Mickelson
> > >
> > >
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