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Bug 651347 - evolution-data-server should fetch and notify of new emails
evolution-data-server should fetch and notify of new emails
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: evolution-data-server
Classification: Platform
Component: Mailer
3.2.x (obsolete)
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-05-28 20:17 UTC by Julien Olivier
Modified: 2021-05-19 11:04 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 3.1/3.2



Description Julien Olivier 2011-05-28 20:17:33 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.
Comment 1 André Klapper 2011-05-31 23:53:26 UTC
Evolution is a MUA, not a MTA.
Use an MTA (like Sendmail) if you want MTA functionality...
Comment 2 Julien Olivier 2011-06-01 10:14:11 UTC
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.
Comment 3 André Klapper 2011-06-01 12:59:11 UTC
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.
Comment 4 Julien Olivier 2011-06-01 14:23:58 UTC
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.
Comment 5 Milan Bouchet-Valat 2011-10-10 12:30:52 UTC
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.
Comment 6 André Klapper 2021-05-19 11:04:01 UTC
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org. 
As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately quite limited so not every ticket can get handled).

If you can still reproduce the situation described in this ticket in a recent and supported software version, then please follow
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and create a new ticket at
  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution-data-server/-/issues/

Thank you for your understanding and your help.