From kmail-devel  Wed Apr 30 16:45:47 2003
From: Mitsu Hadeishi <mitsu () ministryofthought ! com>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 16:45:47 +0000
To: kmail-devel
Subject: [Bug 57908] New: Wish: Notification on new mail only when not
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           Summary: Wish: Notification on new mail only when not transferred
                    to trash
           Product: kmail
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Mandrake RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kmail@kde.org
        ReportedBy: mitsu@ministryofthought.com


Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.1)
Installed from:    Mandrake RPMs
Compiler:          gcc 3.2.2 
OS:          Linux

I see someone else reported this as a "bug" but I would like to re-enter it as a feature request.

In these days of excessive spam it is increasingly unuseful to get a notification for all incoming email.  In particular, I have a lot of filters (which I migrated from Eudora with a Perl script), many of which move mail to specific folders but a lot of which move mail to the trash.  Eudora's default behavior is not to notify if there is a filter moving mail to the trash.

It is of course "correct" to notify the user when they get mail they have moved to the trash, but it would be a very useful feature to be able to notify only when mail is not moved to the trash by a filter.

This is NOT the same as a per-folder notification rule, as another wishlist item requested.  Per-folder notification is cumbersome, because that would mean I would have to write a separate filter rule for every folder (and I have a lot of them).  What would be desirable is a "notify EXCEPT when mail arrives in a given folder (in my case, the trash)".

Perhaps another way to implement this would be to have a "do not notify" option attached to a given folder, and if mail arrives in that folder the notification would be turned off.  By default, this flag could be attached to the trash folder.

I have sifted through the KMail 1.5 source code and it appears that implementing this would be complicated by the fact that POP email appears to be filtered after the new mail notification signal is sent.  This new notification scheme would require that new mail notification be delayed until after the filter processing has happened.

I am going to implement this by kludging in my own code but I think this would be better done more cleanly, so I'm adding this as a feature request.  If someone would like to contact me about how I am doing my kludge, please do so.  It would probably help you in your efforts to implement this if you so desire.
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