mailwatch plugin "error LED" suggestion

[Grant Edwards]

On 2009-03-19, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:

>> What would be a lot more useful to me would something like:
>> 
>>  * Don't turn on the red LED unless multiple successive polls
>>    have failed. (maybe say 3 in a row?)
>> 
>>  * If a poll succeeds and the red LED is on, change it to
>>    yellow.  
>> 
>> Are other people's IMAP servers so reliable that they want to
>> be notified of a single connect/login failure?
>
> Yeah, definitely good suggestions.  Unfortunately there isn't
> a good way of doing this... the logging system in the plugin
> doesn't maintain any metadata about the error messages, so
> they just happen, they get converted to an icon and string,
> and then the original reasons for the error get forgotten.
>
> Feel free to file a bug report, but honestly I don't know when
> (if ever) I'll get around to this.

I'll take a look at it and see if I can come up with something.

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