On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 01:04 +0530, Praveen Thirukonda wrote: > the best way to handle web mail in the long term would be to use the > telepathy framework. it still needs some work on it's email parts > though. > maybe via empathy like pidgin does. or separately
I would love to see this done in Telepathy. Would give us independence of an email client or another mail checker like gmailchek or mail-notification running. We can have Telepathy mission-control running with the desktop by default and it is not very expensive (less than 3MB, plus the tube to connect). No need for empathy there. > The reason why this is better is that it would be PUSH rather than > PULL ie it wont check every x mins to see if new mail is there. > as soon as mail is reached on server, server pushes it to user. > hence instantaneous. I'm not sure about this. Push email seems to be something I never understood. If a smart IMAP client keeps a continuous connection, it can detect whether or not you have mail. This is only true for IMAP though. I have no idea how you would do that with POP or the legion of webmail providers though. I'm also not aware of a Telepathy connection manager that would do any email stuff. > though maybe there might be more data usage. or maybe not as i guess > server pushes it in case of new messages only and IM clients maintain > the connection continuously anyway. > Though maybe this solution (via empathy) might not be ideal for the > minority who dont use IM actively. This is why Empathy is so great. You don't have to run it, because you can run Telepathy's mission-control with your desktop session anyway. In theory :) > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Mark Shuttleworth <m...@ubuntu.com> > wrote: > Andrew SB wrote: > > One issue I've had with the MI applet is that in its current state > it > > misses one of the largest messaging use cases, webmail. > > > I know there's a gmail-notifier around, does it talk MI? If > not, who's up for helping it do that in Lucid? > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Juha Siltala _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
