Re: [Evolution] new mail notification

[Bill Kenworthy <billk iinet net au>]

Evo also doesnt play nicely with mail notification applets: it seems to
hog the conmnection so they cannot update correctly when evo is
running.  Maybe if evo comes with a better appplet that fixes these and
the secure imap problem?

BillK


On Sun, 2001-11-11 at 04:29, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> 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.
>
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