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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    [Bug 57908] New: Wish: Notification on new mail only when not
From:       Mitsu Hadeishi <mitsu () ministryofthought ! com>
Date:       2003-04-30 16:45:47
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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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