Re: [Evolution] new mail notification

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel ximian com>]

On Sat, 2001-11-10 at 11:18, Mike Baptiste wrote:
> One problem with most of the mail checking applets is they don't support
> secure IMAP and POP.  More and more places are shutting down unsecured
> email ports so this becomes more of an issue.  Since Evolution already
> has the SSL stuff in place it seems like having Evolution do some sort
> of notification would be a good thing for SSL users.

My suggestion would be to have someone modify evolution-mail so it also
exports an applet that can be embedded into the panel or docked in a
window manager (using the docking spec from the NET WM spec).

That way the applet will reflect the actual state of your mail drops.

Miguel.