GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 651347
evolution-data-server should fetch and notify of new emails
Last modified: 2021-05-19 11:04:01 UTC
I think it would be very useful to have evolution-data-server automatically retrieve emails from evolution's configured accounts, and notify the user of new emails. This way, you could let evolution closed, and still be "connected" to your email accounts all the time. According to bug #467829 , empathy is planning to behave this way in the future, and it would be a great idea for evolution to follow that path, for consistency's sake.
Evolution is a MUA, not a MTA. Use an MTA (like Sendmail) if you want MTA functionality...
The role of an MTA is not to notify users about new emails received on their remote IMAP or POP servers, is it??? As a GNOME user, I just want something that downloads my emails and displays a notification whenever it has fetched a new email. If it isn't Evolution's job, I fail to see which app's job it is. All I know is that it is *not* the job of the MTA.
It is Evolution's job, and Evolution does this perfectly. However in this report you asked to make it evolution-data-server's job, and that's not planned as far as I know.
Well, my proposition is to take away the fetching of emails, and the notification of new emails from evolution and push it into evolution-data-server so that it works even with evolution's main window closed (the same way calendar alarms are reported even with evolution's main window is closed). I don't see why this couldn't be done.
Evo 3.4 will likely be able to fetch mails from a daemon like evolution-data-server, without running the GUI. See http://mbarnes.livejournal.com/4590.html.
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