mailwatch plugin doesn't turn gray after mail check

[Andrew Conkling]

On 5/27/06, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> Erik Harrison wrote:
> > Brian, have you considered forcing a mailcheck if the launcher is
> > used? Perhaps after a short delay. So I see I have new mail, I click
> > the icon to launch thunderbird, 15 seconds later, mailwatch checks the
> > mailbox again, and the icon  goes grey?
>
> And then people start complaining that the timeout is too short.  Or too
> long.  And then they want a pref.  Which is dumb.  It's kinda a lame
> hack anyway.  I'll pass on this.

I have mine set to a minute and it seems to be near instantaneous
anyway.  I would've never thought of any extra code being necessary
for quick feedback.