Comment 1 for bug 882129

Hello Oier,

To make this happen, gmailwatcher will have to poll the mail server on regular intervals and check if emails have been read and then remove them from messaging menu.

The problem is that the new version uses IMAP IDLE aka Push notifications. The app keeps an open an active connection with gmail server and the server notifies the app about any activity. When this event occurs, gmailwatcher fetch unread emails and notifies the user. Unfortunately, gmail server does not notify using imap idle when an email is marked as read.

This leaves us with one choice and that is to poll the server and see if any changes have occurred which leads us back to where we started, i.e, polling instead of push.

I'd really like to see this feature too. I'm marking this as won't fix for now but I'll keep this in mind and see if I can come up with a workaround.