Re: [Evolution] Taskbar/Panel New Mail Indicator?

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Sun, 2021-01-03 at 16:31 -0500, Paul B. via evolution-list wrote:
> On Sun, 2021-01-03 at 20:12 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Sun, 2021-01-03 at 17:17 +0000, Nogbor wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2021-01-02 at 18:02 -0500, Paul B. via evolution-list wrote:
> > > > Hi everyone, and a good new year to you.
> > > > I don't see any way to have an indication of new mail on the panelicon. Am
> > > > Imissing it?
> > > > There is a project here: https://launchpad.net/evolution-indicator,but the
> > > > lastversion is from 2011, and there is no Debian Buster package, which
> > > > iswhat my MXLinux 19.3 is based on.
> > > > Thank you,Paul
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> > > Hi & Happy New Year,
> > > I use Evolution in Gnome on Arch and use Mailnag to notify me of emailsin
> > > the system tray.
> > > Mailnag comes in 2 parts, a small program that runs in thebackgroundand and
> > > a gnome extension. Apparently it is available forDebian.
> > > You set it up to monitor your email accounts. When you get anotification you
> > > can click in it to open your mail client (evolution)
> > > More details are available here:
> > > https://github.com/pulb/mailnaghttps://github.com/pulb/mailnag
> >
> > Note that some (all?) notification agents detect new mail by accessingyour
> > account, which in the case of IMAP accounts will cause messages tolose the
> > Unseen flag. This will affect Evolution's automatic filteringsince only Unseen
> > messages are filtered.
> > poc
>
> That's a good point. I also considered that if I kept a third-party notifier I
> probably would turn off Evolution's own automatic mail checking, lest I be
> polling the server twice over, and then invoke it manually when I bought it into
> focus. An onboard checker would be a better solution.

Personally, I just keep Evolution open permanently on a virtual desktop
of its own, so it takes no time for me to check if there's new mail.

poc