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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    [Bug 59158] Add filter action that creates/triggers an event
From:       Mitsu Hadeishi <mitsu () ministryofthought ! com>
Date:       2003-05-30 23:11:09
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------- Additional Comments From mitsu@ministryofthought.com  2003-05-31 01:11 -------
Well, the original poster of this bug specifically used the sentence "I am
thinking that I would like notification of new mail arriving, but I don't want
to be notified of ALL new mail."  As you may have noticed quite a few people
have requested some feature along these lines, including myself.

What I am thinking is that the typical situation is not that someone actually
cares about getting a specific notification for, say, a specific person.  Much
more often what is desired is what the original poster suggested, which is
getting notification for some but not all mail.  One way to implement this would
be to use  per-filter notification, but that has quite a few disadvantages.

For example, to make this useful one would have to turn off the standard new
mail notification, and ONLY get notified when specific filters are triggered. 
This means that you have to write a filter for every case where you want new
mail notification.  However, the much more common situation, I believe, is where
you want to write a filter that specifically turns OFF new mail notification,
rather than turns it on.  I.e., at least in my case and I think for a lot of
people, what you want is to be able to say "do not notify me if I get mail on a
mailing list or if I get spam, etc.  Notify me for all other mail."

Now in my case I already have about 1000 filters, so there's also the issue of
laboriously going through all those filters and turning mail notification on and
off for them individually (if it is a per-filter solution).  That to me is quite
cumbersome.

Similarly, I might decide that I actually want notification for a group of
people for a while, then I might decide I don't want it later.  If I can just
turn notification on and off on a per-folder basis, I can do it in one operation
instead of laboriously going through and marking specific people one at a time.

A more general version of my feature might be to have a different notification
depending on the folder --- different sounds or something.  But personally I
think the most common case is turning OFF notification for a certain class of email.
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