GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 207580
Allow new mail check on individual accounts
Last modified: 2013-09-13 01:11:49 UTC
Package: Evolution Priority: Normal Version: 0.12.99 Beta3 Synopsis: No Ability to check one individual pop mailbox Bugzilla-Product: Evolution Bugzilla-Component: Mailer Description: There's no facility to check an individual pop mailbox .. all that is available is send and receive there should be a little drop arrow box ala Outlooks Exress where you should be able to choose an individual pop account to have run.
Marking as WISHLIST. Also, I think this might be duplicate but I don't see anything with a cursory search.
*** bug 219350 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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*** bug 273393 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Is this feature too hard to code? This wish was from 2001. Five years ago... Some forecast?
I wanted to ping again on this again. Has anyone looked into adding a drop-down to check individual accounts? Also, would it be possible to get a "check for new messages" option on the right-click menu for each account? This feature sorts goes with the online/offline per-account request from bug 272584 - if you can't quickly disable one account, maybe you could choose to only check one of them. That's how I see it at any rate, but this feature is pretty desirable either way. I just had a co-worker decide not to switch from kmail to evolution because evo couldn't check for message one a per-account basis.
Nobody is working on this and patches are accepted.
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I looked into this a little yesterday. My use case is that I have one POP account that takes a few seconds to update, and an IMAP account for work with lots and lots of folders that takes several minutes to update. I thought of adding a "Send / Receive" item to the popup menu shown for accounts in the folder tree, but the case for multiple POP accounts stumped me because they're not listed individually in the folder tree. I considered having the "Send / Receive" popup item for "On This Computer" be a special case that updates all account types that download messages to the local Inbox (i.e. all POP accounts), which would satisfy _my_ use case. But that doesn't seem to be what's being asked for here. Attaching a menu to the "Send / Receive" toolbar button is an interesting idea, but it's a no go until we rid ourselves of BonoboUI, which doesn't support buttons like that (the "New" button is a custom widget and has its own issues). The other question is whether the "Send & Receive Mail" dialog should popup if we're just updating a one or a subset of the accounts. I'm leaning towards no. If we can agree on what the UI should look like, the rest doesn't appear to be all that difficult.
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What about the first step towards this, the submenu in File, like File->Send / Receive Account > ... with list of accounts there? The second step, when you get rid of bonobo, can be also the arrow on toolbar, but not necessary, I guess. What do you think?
I think that's a reasonable idea. Perhaps: File -> Send / Receive -> All Accounts F9 ----------------- <- menu separator Account 1 Account 2 Account 3 ... Even better is if users could bind custom accelerators to those individual account items. Custom key bindings are already working on my "kill-bonobo" branch for static menu items. I'd need to research how to support that for dynamically created menu items.
(In reply to comment #12) > I'd need to research how to support that for dynamically created menu items. That might also fix bugs like bug 241477. See the comments over there.
GNARF! I meant bug 269852 (especially comment 6), not bug 241477.
It's been over a year since this feature request was submitted and still no joy. Time for a bump. It's the only real feature I miss included with virtually EVERY other email client on the face of the Earth!
I'm going to slightly correct the previous comment. It's been over <em>ten years</em> since this feature request was submitted etc. I'm also going to add my voice to the call. Unfortunately I can't code C, C++ or any of the other languages that GNOME and Evolution are written in.
In general, please try to not comment on a bug report if the comment does not provide technical information for developers. There are forums and mailing lists for this type of communication. Thanks!
Created commit e39dd93 in evo master (2.91.3+) I implemented this for 2.91.3. I also removed Send/Receive menu/toolbar button from all but mail views, because they had no meaning there.
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