Looking for mailwatch app

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Sat Sep 6 07:45:59 CEST 2008


On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 20:19:44 +0000 (UTC) Grant Edwards wrote:

> A couple nice-to-have features that I've always wanted (but
> never had) in a mailwatcher:
> 
>  * It would be handy to have a way send the mailwatcher(s) a
>    signal to update.  The sequence of events where this would
>    be useful is:
> 
>     1) The watcher detects new mail and changes the icon.
> 
>     2) Clicking on the icon starts an MUA.
> 
>     3) The user deletes/saves/whatever the new message.
> 
>     4) The user closes the MUA.    

Ok, current svn will re-check all mailboxes if you send it SIGUSR2.

>  * It would be cool if the panel containing the mailwatchers
>    could stay hidden when there is no new mail.  Can an
>    auto-hide panel "un-hide" itself based on the state of one
>    of the plugins?  

I think that can be done -- definitely file a feature request on this.

	-brian



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